Archive for the ‘Devotional song’ Category
Na maangoon main tera jahaan
Posted on: April 28, 2013
“Raja Vikram” (1957) was a Sharad Productions movie. It was directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Bhagwan, Usha Kiran, Nigar Sultana, Suryakant, Shahu Modak etc in it.
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“Paataal Pari” (1957) was a Sardar Pictures Production. It was directed by S P Bakshi. The movie had Jairaj, Shakila, Kumkum, Sheikh, Yashodhara Katju, Habib, Tiwari etc in it.
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Bhar de jholi Allah naam
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
LAILA MAJNU(1953) was produced by P N Arora under the banner of All India Pictures and directed by K Amarnath. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Nutan, Ulhas, Begum Para, Wasti, Kammo, Ratan Kumar etc. All the songs of this film were penned by Shakeel Badayuni. However, the film had two music directors – Ghulam Mohammed (11 songs) and Sardar Malik (3 songs).
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Shakti de maa
Posted on: December 29, 2012
“Ashanti” (1982) was produced and directed by Umesh Mehra. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mithun Chakraborty, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi,Amrish Puri, Shabana Azmi etc.
Today (29 december 2012) is the 70th birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna. On this occasion, here is a song from “Ashanti” (1982).
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Deendayaal sakal dukhbhanjan
Posted on: December 27, 2012
This article is written by Vidur Sury, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Thanks to Atul Sir, now I have the pleasure of writing a series on songs by immortal singer Amirbai Karnataki Ji.
My first song will be the earliest among those not yet on this blog, and this is from Narsi Bhagat (1940), one of her early famous films.
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O mother Mary
Posted on: December 25, 2012
Today (25th december) is Christmas. On this occasion, here is a song from “Bheegi Palken” (1982). This movie was an Arya Pictures Production. It was produced by K K Arya and directed by Sisir Mishra. The movie had Smita Patil, Raj Babbar, Sulbha Deshpande, Jagdeep, Baby Sunita, Dina Pathak, Leela Mishra, Laxmi Chhaaya, Nanditha Thakur, Jawahar Kaul, Asit Sen, Master Romi, Suresh Chatwal, Jasbir Sumal, Anita Das, Dilip Dutt, Manmauji, Mirza Musharaf, Birbal, Jugnu, Umakant Mishra, Meghdoot etc.
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Hari aao Hari aao
Posted on: November 24, 2012
Today (24 november) is Amol Palekar’s 67th birthday. Unlike most other heroes, who played larger than life characters in movies, Amol Palekar played the roles of a man next door who has problems and worries like the rest of us. And that is what helped him get his fan following among movie watchers who were intested in watching simple uncomplicated movies.
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Ab to Madhav mohe ubaar
Posted on: November 22, 2012
This article is wrtitten by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Among the singers of devotional songs, one name that comes to my mind is Lakshmi Shankar. It was almost a daily ritual for me to listen to one of her devotional (bhajan) songs almost every day in the morning on All India Radio, Bombay (Mumbai). At that time, I had no inkling that she was a classical dancer and later a renowned classical vocalist of Patiala Gharana. I was not even aware that she belonged to the illustrious Shankar family.
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Tere bharosey hey Nandlaala
Posted on: November 4, 2012
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
After listening to some of the evergreen non-filmy songs during the last few days, I have come to the conclusion that non-filmy songs have their own style of compositions with tunes and melody getting primacy over orchestration. The musical instruments used in such songs are minimum. Most of these songs give a feel of devotional songs in one way or the other. In romantic songs, there is the devotion towards lovers/beloved. The patriotic songs are devotion to the country. Of course, the bigger canvass of the devotional songs (bhajans) is the spiritualism and devotion to the Almighty. In the 60s, ghazals and bhajans formed a bulk of the non-filmy songs.
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