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People intersted in old Hindi movie music often come across names that may confuse people. For instance, there are people who confuse between Naushad and Nashaad. Then there are people (including some who are regarded as knowledgeable by others as well as by themselves) who think that Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad are one and the same ! A few years back, I was listening to an audiocast (I think the actual tem used in different) of a programme on old songs. The presenter presented a song from “Shaheed, viz. Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawaan shaheed ho (Shaheed) . After the song, the presenter informed the listeners that the music of this song was compose by Ghulma Haider, and that music lovers are awrae of this music director for his compositions in “Paakeeza” (1972). After listening to this sentence, I lost all respect for the knowledge of the presenter about old Hindi movies.
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Tumpe ham qurbaan qismat ban jaaye
Posted on: April 21, 2013
“Baghdad” (1961) was a Southern Movies production. It was directed by T R Sundaram. The movie had M. G. Ramchandran, Vyjyantimala, Gopal Krishna, T. S. Balliah, Nambiar, Sandhya, Helen etc in it. That makes it one of the rare movies where M G Ramchandran was seen in a Hindi movie. I wonder if it was a dubbed movie. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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Aaja aaja aaja re balam
Posted on: February 23, 2013
“Aarti” (1962) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Peace Kanwal, Jagirdar, Rajendranath, Vijaya Choudhry, Surekha, Niranjan Sharma, Ramesh Deo, Chandrima Bhaduri, Keshto Mukherjee etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So there is one more film that makes its debut on the blog today. ‘Chale Hain Sasuraal’ is a film from 1966, produced under the banner of Krishnadeep Productions, directed by Dharam Kumar. A typical grade B film with Helen and Chandrashekhar in lead roles. The rest of the star cast includes Bhagwaan, Meenakshi, Madhumati, Sherry, Sunder, Tuntun, Aruna Irani, Mirza Musahrraf, Sheikh, Polson, Indira Bansal, Dilip Dutt, Jerry, Jilaani, Thakur, Anwari, Raj Deewan, Maqbool, Bimla Kashmiri, RN Nambiar. The music for this film comes from the baton of C Arjun. And the lyrics are from the pen of Qamar Jalaalabaadi.
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“Air Mail” (1960) must be one of the most obscure Hindi movies of all time. This B grade movie was a People Pictures presentation. It was directed by B J Patel. The movie had Jyoti, Mirajkar, Ranjan, Malini, Rajen Kapoor etc in it.
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“Jee Chaahta Hai” (1964) was a Mitra Productions Pvt Limited production. It was directed by Bibhuti Mitra.
The movie had Joy Mukherji, Rajshri, Motilal, Jeevan,Shyama, Nazir Hussain, Janki Dass, Rajendra Nath, Achala Sachdev, Poornima, Pratima Devi, Chaand, Lakshmi, Jeanie, Thelma, Baby Farida, Baby Yasmin, Badri Prasad, Rajender, Jagdish Kamal, Master Shahid etc in it.
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“Ghazal” (1964) was a Natraja production movie. It was directed by Madan -Ved, The movie had Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rahman, Prithviraj Kapoor, Mridula Rani, Rajendranath, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Though Hindi movies covers lots of ground as far as various human feelings are concerned, but there is no doubt in any one’s mind that the predominant feeling depicted in Hindi movies is love between the hero and the heroine.
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Ae jaane tamanna ae jaane bahaaraan
Posted on: May 23, 2012
“Jee Chaahta Hai” (1964) was a Mitra Production movie. It was produced and directed by Bibhuti Mitra. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Rajshree, Motilal, Pratima Devi, Shyama, Rajendra Nath, Jeevan, Purnima etc in it.
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“Baaghi Shehzaada” (1964) was a Gee Pee films production. It was directed by Maruti, The movie had Kishore Kumar and Kumkum in lead roles, alongwith W. M. Khan, Anwar, Maruti, B. M. Vyas etc.
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