Posted by: Atul on: April 7, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The world of Hindi Classical Music has produced so many maestros both in vocal and in instrumental category. We have different maestros of different gharanas in the field of vocal music and same is [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Mehboob Khan is famous as one of the key pioneers and one of the greatest film makers of Indian cinema. Born in 1907 in at Bilimoria in Gujarat, he ran away from home at a [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 4, 2011
“Kaala Sonaa” (1975) to my mind is inspired from “Westerns”. In this movie, Feroz Khan plays Clint Eastwood. Unlike Clint Eastwood, who would barely speak, our desi tough guy would not be averse to multi task. He would find time to romance, sing and dance, in addition to performing his day job of seeking revenge [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 29, 2011
Most music lovers love to listen to light songs and run away from songs based on classical music. I certainly belonged to that category of music lovers who ran away a mile from classical music.
Posted by: Atul on: March 18, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) was a story of Angulimaal, a bandit who turned saint, a historical/mythological character who lived during the times of Lord Buddha.This movie had Bharat Bhushan,Nimmi and Anita Guha in it.
Posted by: Atul on: October 2, 2010
I always thought that the song “dukh bhare din beete re bhaiyya” from “Mother India” (1957) was a brief song, almost an afterthought. I do not know how I came to believe that. Perhaps I may have watched a brief portion of this song when I watched this movie (some 25 years after the movie [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2010
This is one song that must be as rare a song as they come. Listen to this song and try to judge the people involved in the creation of the song. It is easy to notice that the song is picturised on Dhumal and Tuntun. One can also notice that the song is sung by [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 1, 2009
I have mentioned it earlier that some of the finest songs created by O P Nayyar were in movies produced by Johny Walker.
Posted by: Atul on: July 19, 2009
“Patanga” (1949) had that iconic song “Mere piya gaye Rangoon wahaan se kiya hai telephoon”. It is perhaps the only song from this movie that is known to most people.
Posted by: Atul on: February 5, 2009
“Naya Daur” was quite a path breaking movie in the history of Bollywood movies.
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