Posted by: Atul on: April 2, 2012
“Ye Raat Phir Na Aayegi” (1966) was a Sri Krishna Films presentation. It was directed by Brij. The movie had Vishwajeet, Sharmila Tagore, Madhumati, Prithviraj Kapoor, Mumtaz, Asit Sen, B. M. Vyas, Helen, Sailesh Kumar etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: March 30, 2012
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog. In the early 70s Bangalore was heaven on earth. It was a city you could walk around in, full of gardens and broad sidewalks. If you were a movie lover, this was the place [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2012
Here is another song from the popular “How come this song was not posted earlier !” category. My excuse for not posting it earlier remains the same old one. I thought the song was already discussed but I was wrong.
Posted by: Atul on: January 10, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Remembering Mahendra Kapoor today, 9th Jan, his birth anniversary. As I am searching for songs to post for today, I came across this simply super gem of a melody which I have heard long time [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 27, 2011
“Qeemat” (1946) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information about this movie is available online.
Posted by: Atul on: November 25, 2011
“Tamanna” (1969) is a movie which was a K S Pictures presentation. It was directed by K P Atma. The movie had the ageing pair of Vishwajeet and Mala Sinha in the lead. Other actors in this by now obscure movie were Shashikala, Agha, Nazima, Deven Verma, Nazir Hussain, Sulochana, Sajjan, Achla Sachdev, Asit Sen, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 29, 2011
By now I am coming round to the view that obscure B grade movies could well outnumber the well known A grade movies as far as old Hindi movies are concerned. Music of such movies could well turn out to be a treasure trove that has not yet been fully discovered. I continue to find [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 25, 2011
“Saajan Ki Saheli” (1980) is a movie which came up in the last stage of the Golden era of Hindi movie music. Those were the days when Disco music was becoming the rage and lyrics were losing their importance in such songs. During those days, we fortunately still had the kind of music in some [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 17, 2011
when one listens to O P Nayyar’s music, one often may find his music sounding same. But when one frees one’s mind of such pre conceived notions (viz. different compositions of a music composer needs to sound different from each other), one can enjoy music the best. And in case of O P Nayyar’s music, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 13, 2011
“Kaafilaa” (1952) was a Munshi Productions movie. It was directed by Arvind Sen and the star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Motilal, Amrita, Nazir Hussain, Sunalini Devi, Anant Prabhu, Mumtaz, Ranjan etc in it.
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