Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The moment we see the caption for this song “woh din yaad karo, woh din yaad karo ” the mind somehow produced the image of Mehmood and Shobha Khote singing this. I dont know how [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. As I am selecting more songs to post for the composer Usha Khanna, I am actually faced by the dilemma on which ones to post first and which to defer. Every film that she has [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 27, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Do Dil” which was released in 1965. Now I find that there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1947.
Posted by: Atul on: August 10, 2011
Though 1950 was “only” six decades ago, it looks like that was an entirely different world altogether from what it is today. For one, things were much simpler and un complicated and moreover, people seemed to have all the time in the world at their disposal. Imagine riding on a slow moving bullock cart and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 27, 2011
“Amar Kahaani” (1949) is a by now obscure movie which had actors like Jairaj,Suraiyya,Ranjana,Jagdish Mehta etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 12, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. There are many songs in the movies that are for the children, and many of them are sung by children. Then there is another set of songs wherein bachpan (childhood) is being bid a goodbye and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: March 1, 2011
I never tire of mentioning that there are countless musical gems lying there that have been forgotten with time. I keep discovering them quite regularly.
Posted by: Atul on: November 22, 2010
Sajjad Hussain composed about 100 songs in Hindi movies and I have been trying to locate as many of these songs as I can and discuss them in this blog.
Posted by: Atul on: October 21, 2010
“Rukhsaana” (1955) is movie with Sajjad Hussain’s music and a few songs of this movie are available on internet. This movie had Kishore Kumar,Meena Kumari, Kumkum, Randhir, Sundar etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: September 29, 2010
“Sujata” (1959) had some very nice songs in it that covered various stages of lives, different kinds of feelings etc. For instance, this movie has one of most well known luallabies of all time, viz. Nanhi kali sone chali hawa dheere aana. Picturisation of this lullaby shows Sulochana singing this lullaby to babies who grow [...]
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