Posted by: Atul on: March 17, 2012
“Taxi Stand” (1958) is an obscure B grade movie. This movie was a Janta Chitra Production. It was produced by Devi Sharma and directed by Gajanan Jagirdar. Starcast of the movie included names like Majnu, Rajan Haksar, Tuntun, Prashanta, K.N.Singh, Om Prakash, Anita Guha, Chandrashekhar, KanchanMala, Meena Shorey, JeetBala, Sunder etc.
Posted by: Atul on: March 11, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Talat Mehmood had sung most of his duet songs mainly with Suraiyya, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle and Sudha Malhotra. I get a feel of an affinity between the singers on the one [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 14, 2012
Today (14th february) is the birth anniversary of Jaan Nisaar Akhtar. On this occasion, we have discussed quite a few songs penned by him. In this series, here is another lovely song written by him.
Posted by: Atul on: February 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. I just stumbled upon a beautiful duet ‘raat hai nikhri huyi’ sung by Krishna Goyal and Geeta Dutt from the film MALLIKAA (1956) under the music direction of the great Hansraj Bahl. Tanveer Naqvi [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 30, 2011
This is a song that many music buffs may already be familiar with, but I discovered this song only just now. and I loved this song. I am sure this song is already regarded as a lovely song by those who are already familiar with it.
Posted by: Atul on: September 21, 2011
“Kaanch Aur Heera” (1972) was a B grade movie produced by Sudarshan Chitra and directed by Charandas Shokh. The makers of this movie must have been great believers in winning lottery or stock market riches, seeing that they had staked the future of their movie on names like Pankaj and Shaheen. Yes, they were the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 20, 2011
“Bahu” (1955) is a movie which was produced by P R Films. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Karan Dewan, Usha Kiran, Shashikala, Pran,Mumtaz Begum, Johnny Walker, Bipin Gupta, Mehmood, Kundan etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: August 27, 2011
“Ek Thi Ladki” (1949) is a movie starring Motilal and Meena Shorey. This movie is famous for the iconic song Laara lappa laara lappa laai rakhdaa(Ek Thi Ladki). I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie, and all these songs are just outstanding.
Posted by: Atul on: August 19, 2011
“Duniya Jhukti Hai” (1960) is a movie starring Shyama and Sunil Dutt. I do not have much information about this movie. But it appears that this movie has some nice songs in it.
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