Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The year – 1997. For the first time ever (October ’97), an Indian artist is being honored as the ‘Artist of the Month’ by MTV channel on cable TV. At the age of 64, a [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. In around mid-50s, I used to often hear a song ‘chal chal re musaafir chal’ which I liked it. But I had no idea or rather I never ventured to know as to which [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 1, 2012
“Upar Gagan Vishaal, Neeche Gehraa Pataal” – the unforgettable sound from the film ‘Mashaal’ (1950). The words carry a thrill – they have been written by Kavi Pradeep. The music is an uplifting exuberant melody – composed by SD Burman. And voice, the sound of which will make one sit up or even stand up [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 26, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Sometimes a rhythm, a tune just sticks into the mind and keeps replaying itself over and over again. This is what has happened, when I bumped into this song two days ago. I was preparing [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 5, 2012
I became aware of “Puraskaar” (1970) after Memsaab reviewed this movie in her blog. It turns out that the movie is a treasure of great songs. I wonder how I was not aware of this movie when it was released in 1970s, seeing that this movie had music by R D Burman and I, like [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 4, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This post is a special post that celebrates the 400th song of Mukesh on this blog. Given that the total list of all known recordings of songs by Mukesh ji is just a little below [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Given that during most of the 50s, C Ramchandra was very favorably inclined towards Lata, I was just wanting to find out what is the earliest that he had used the voice of Asha Bhosle. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. “Caarvaan” (1971) is one of the first films that I remember having seen on the big screen. And I was then too young to understand the sentiments of sensuality. In later years, when I would [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 18, 2012
In our personal lives, we remember various important dates viz bithdays, anniversaries etc of our near and dear ones and greet them on the occasion. Hindi movie personality whom we discuss in this blog also seem like family to us and we discuss them on this blog on important days.
Posted by: Atul on: March 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. There is a wonderful and very melodious song by Mukesh (already posted Palbhar ki hi pehchaan mein ). The film is Anuraag from 1953. The mukhda of this song is “Pal Bhar Ki Hi Penchaan [...]
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