Posted by: Atul on: May 6, 2012
We have discussed a couple of songs from “Teesri Kasam” (1966) recently. In the course of that discussion, I have learnt the story of the novel called “Maare Gaye Gulfaam” which was picturised as “Teesri Kasam”. The movie has faithfully reproduced the flavour of the novel. The movie failed to find favour with the majority [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 5, 2012
“Naya Andaz” (1956) was a K Amarnath Productions movie. It was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Gope, Kumkum, Jayant, Pran, Johnny Walker, Murad etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 22, 2012
“Ishaara” (1964) was an Amarnath Production movie. It was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Vyjayanthimala, Jayant, Subbiraj, Azra, Pratima Devi, Agha, Pran, Shammi, Sajjan, Murad, Praveen Paul, Hari Shivdasani, Kesari, Raja Amrohi, Ruby Meyers, Brahm Bhardwaj, Prem Sagar, Amrit Rana, Ravikant etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: April 17, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Punar Milan was made in 1940 by Bombay Talkies.THe movie as well as its songs were well known during its time. Music lover like Arunji would know how famous were the songs. I don’t [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 16, 2012
“Kismat Ka Khel” (1956) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Sahu Films Production. It was produced and durected by Kishore Sahu. Starcast of the movie had Dutt, Vyjayanthimala, Begum Para, Tuntun, Mukri,Yashodhara Katju, Kamaljeet, Kanchanmala, S.K.Singh, Umadevi, Bhudo Advani, Jagdeep, Jamal, Moni Chatterjee, Jagdeesh Paul, Jagdeesh Kamal, Chacha, Shrinath etc.
Posted by: Atul on: April 7, 2012
Here is one more song of the popular unofficial genre viz “how come this song was not posted earlier” . During my younger days I was only into listening current songs and any song created before 1968 was old song for me. then one fine day in mid 1970s I decided to become mature, viz. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 2, 2012
“Hamsaaya”(1968) was Joy Mukherjee’s home production. Joy Mukherjee produced and directed the movie and acted in it too. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Sharmila Tagore, Mala Sinha, Rehman, Gajanan Jagirdar, D. K. Sapru, Malika, Madan Puri, Jankidas, Jagdish Kamal, Polson etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names like Johny Walker, Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, etc.
Posted by: Atul on: March 11, 2012
Many of the songs that we discuss in this blog are those that we have heard in the past and we want to relive them and enjoy them again. There there is another kind of music, one that we may never have heard before for the simple reason that these songs did not become popular [...]
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