Archive for the ‘playful song’ Category
Aa chhua chhoo chhoo
Posted on: April 27, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most readers of this Blog know Mr. Raja ji Swaminathan, as a very knowledgeable well wisher of this Blog and as a Blogger himself. His pioneering work of subtitling films is the most praiseworthy.
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“Mad Bhare Nain”(1955) was a Fortune Films unit production. It was directed by Hem Chunder. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Bina Rai, Misra, Badri Prasad, David Abraham, Durga Khote, Yashodhara Katju, N. Hussain, Achla Sachdev, Bhupendra Kapoor etc in it.
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“Sabzbaagh” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Nirmal Pictures presentation and it was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. Starcast of the movie included names like Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Aankhon Hi Aankhon Mein Ishaaraa Ho Gayaa”, this lovely melody remains etched in my heart, as my first introduction to a dashing young Dev Anand, as seen on a Doordarshan screening of the film CID (1956). Time would be sometimes early seventies, and as a pre teen kid I was in the home of a friend (we did not have a TV of our own), religiously attending the Sunday film session, that was the once a week diet of film viewing generally allowed to us kids.
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Kisi ka kuchh kho gayaa hai
Posted on: September 24, 2011
“Dulhan Ek Raat Ki” (1966) is a Taxila production movie which was directed by D D Kashyap. This movie was supposedly based on a Thomas Hardy novel (according to imdb). The star cast of the movie has names like Dharmendra, Nutan, Rehman, Leela Chitnis, Niranjan Sharma, Kanhaiyalal, Tabassum, Mumtaz Begum, Johnny Walker etc.
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Tum ho haseen kahaan ke
Posted on: September 6, 2011
Though I already knew about the better known songs of “Sharaabi” (1964), I have become aware of a few more songs of the movie recently.
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Surma mera niraalaa
Posted on: August 4, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Celebrating and remembering Kishore Da on the anniversary of his birth today. 
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Aankh mein shokhi lab pe tabassum
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Reshmi Roomaal” (1961) is a B grade movie starring Manoj Kumar (then a newcomer) opposite Shakila (then over the hill). This movie and its songs are quite obscure as of now.
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Tu ladki main ladkaa ladkaa
Posted on: March 7, 2011
Songs and dances play a very important role in Hindi movies. In olden days, lead actors were needed to sing and dance. Once playback singing began, actors were thankfully no longer required to sing their own songs, but they were still required to dance. That is especially true for actresses and proficiency in dancing was an important skill for them.
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My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
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