Posted by: Atul on: April 26, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Here is another song from the Film “Aradhana” which I like a lot. Actually in this genre of songs my favourite is “mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari” from “Kabhi Kabhi” which is already posted, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 11, 2012
“Ek Hi Raasta”(1956) was produced and directed by B R Chopra. As was his wont, this movie too was on a socially progressive theme of widow remarriage which was quite bold for the time and as a result it was a commercially risky proposition for the movie. But B R Chopra pulled it off and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 11, 2012
“Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Subbiraj,Sulochana, Naaz, Balraj, Daisy Irani, Kavita, Nana Palsikar, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: February 5, 2012
In Hindi movies, there are very few songs that can be described as children’s songs, which comes as quite a surprise seeing that children always form a good percentage of Indian population. Perhaps the fact that they do not hold the purse strings of the family may well be the reason why children’s songs are [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 8, 2011
“Sone Ki Chidiya”(1958) is a movie which was a Film India Corporation presentation. It was directed by Shahid Latif. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Dhumal, Altaf, Mehmood, Amar, Bikram Kapoor, Zebunissa etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: June 27, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. As a child, I have been a very dedicated listener to the Hindi film songs on All India Radio and Radio Ceylon. Besides the song, another program that I never missed was the weekly program for [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 11, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. Ashok Kumar has been the doyen of the male actors of the Hindi film world, with a career that started in the 1930s and lasted to the early 2000s. The one thing that was the most [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 2, 2011
In this blog, I typically hope to discuss 6-7 songs a day and that enables me to complete a century in 16 days. This is obviuosly subject to conditions being favourable. For instance, I need to have a free hand with no one nagging me. (You got the point I hope) With holidays on, and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 15, 2011
I have discussed one song from “Mirza Sahiban”(1947) in the past. considering that this is one of the four major tradional Punjabi tragic love stories, one would normally expect to have love songs (tragic or otherwise) in a movie like this. So I am pleasantly suprised to find that this movie has a light hearted [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 29, 2010
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a movie starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie, like most movies of those days, is full of memorable songs.
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