Posted by: Atul on: May 12, 2012
“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.
Posted by: Atul on: May 11, 2012
“Lekh” (1949) was a Liberty Arts Production. It was directed by G Ganesh. Starcast of this by now obscure movie included Motilal, Suraiyya, Anand Pal, Cuckoo, Ishu, Jagirdar, Sitara etc.
Posted by: Atul on: May 9, 2012
“Patita” (1953) was a Mars and Movies Production. The movie was directed by Amiya Majumdar. The movie had Dev Anand, Usha Kiran, Krishnakant, Lalita Pawar, Chandrashekhar,Agha, Shivraj etc.
Posted by: Atul on: January 14, 2012
Nashaad, not to be confused with Naushad, was born as Shaukat Ali. He began his career as a music director in Hindi movies in 1947. In his earlier movies, he was variously known as Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalvi, Shaukat Hussain, Shaukat Haidari, Shaukat Hussain Haidari etc. It was in 1953 that film director cum lyricist [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 5, 2012
On the occasion of C Ramchandra’s death anniversary (5 january), we are discussing some special songs composed by C Ramchandra.
Posted by: Atul on: January 5, 2012
Most Hindi movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that are released for public view and these songs figure in these movies.
Posted by: Atul on: December 30, 2011
Datta Naik was born in Goa, which was then a Portuguese colony. He came to Bombay to try his luck as a music director. Initially he acted as an assistant to S D Burman before starting out as an independent music director. He changed his name to N Datta by re ordering the sequence of [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 28, 2011
Love is the most common theme in Hindi movie songs. There are many variations of this theme and one of them is light teasing between lovers.
Posted by: Atul on: December 26, 2011
When you seek to look for obscue songs from yesteryears, you often come across unheard of gems. Many a times, these songs are sung/ created by the usual suspects, but sometimes they are created by people we normally would not suspect of being able to sing songs, leave alone singing songs that can be regarded [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 25, 2011
If 24th december was the birthday of Rafi then his close musical associate Naushad was not too far behind. Naushad was born on 25th december ! So today (25th december) is the day when we in this blog will pay our musical tributes to Naushad,the great pioneer in the field of Hindi movie music.
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