Posted by: Atul on: May 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. There are many flavors of ‘rootthnaa’ and ‘manaanna’ in Hindi films. There are many songs that we like, which are about one person, lady or the gentleman, one of whom is upset and offended about something, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 29, 2012
“Aag aur Daag” (1970) was produced by Swarn singh and directed by A Salaam. this movie had Joy Mukherjee, Komal, Jayant, Zeb Rahman, Helen, Master Bhagwan, I. S. Johar, Madan Puri, Sudhir, Rajan Haksar, Kundan, Paro, Sumeet Pathak, Raj Rani, Roopali, Samina, Shabana, Shaloo, Shefali, M.B. Shetty etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: August 10, 2011
Public have a se idea about the roles that the two genders play and they are used to the same roles being played by them in Hindi movies too. But sometimes movie makers come up with situations when the two genders behave in a rather unusual manner not expected of that gender and that makes [...]
Posted by: Atul on: July 14, 2011
“Amar” (1954) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Madhubala. This movie had several songs that became quite popular. I have discussed five songs from this movie in the past.
Posted by: Atul on: July 5, 2011
“Do Phool”(1958) is a movie with some delightful songs in it. I just discovered a very nice song in this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: May 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Here is another gem of a duet from the film Apna Haath Jagannath (1960). Three song from this movie are already discussed in these pages. This one is a fun filled duet by Kishore and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 4, 2011
If one creates one or two masterpiece songs in a movie that I suppose the creators of such songs in that movie could be justified in taking it easy while creating the remaining songs. But that is not how they worked in the (G)olden days. The created one gem after another in the same movie, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 10, 2011
Here is a cute and lovely song that I was not aware of till a few hours ago.
Posted by: Atul on: December 8, 2010
I am told that 8 december is the birthday of not one but two actors. Yes, both Dharmendra (DOB- dec 8, 1935) and Sharmila Tagore (DOB 8 dec 1946) were born on this date.
Posted by: Atul on: October 9, 2010
Sometime back, I had tried to find out the names of playback singers who have sung for Dev Anand in Hindi movies. And I found that there have been several such singers and not just the usual names.
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