Posted by: Atul on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog Remembering Talat Mehmood on his 88th birth anniversary today, the 24th of February. The moon generally does not venture out during the daytime. For if it does, then no one can see it, and no [...]
Posted by: Atul on: December 7, 2011
“Preet Na Jaane Reet” (1966) is a Moviestan presentation. It was directed by S Bannerji. The star cast included names like Shammi Kapoor, B. Saroja Devi, Siddhu, Nazir Hussain, Parveen Choudhary, Minoo Mumtaz, Dhumal,Shammi, Randhir, Johnny Walker etc.
Posted by: Atul on: October 30, 2011
“Shehnaai” (1964) is a New Oriental Pictures presentation. This movie is directed by S D Narang. The sat cast of the movie included names like Vishwajeet,Rajshree, Veena, Johnny Walker,Chaand usmani, Asit Sen, Leela Chitnis, Parveen Chaudhary, Nirupa Roy, D.K.Sapru, Rehman, Ifthekar etc.
Posted by: Atul on: August 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Atul ji and Arun ji have talked about the lady music directors of the 30s and 40s, like Saraswati Devi, Jaddan Bai etc. The careers of these lady composers did not last for very long [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 9, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Browsing through some songlists, I started to play this song last evening; and then just like that, checked the blog. Wow, this song must be brought on. And I am sure you will agree too.
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
It is a song that I have heard many a times right from my younger days, and I in fact had noted down the lyrics of this song in a diary that I used to maintain in 1970s. This diary had lyrics of songs noted down by me from radio as well as scorecards of [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 26, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Reading about the Atul ji’s description of the tresses and curls of Indian film heroines, as he discussed yesterday in the song Zulfon ko hataa le chehre se (Saawan Ki Ghata) , I am reminded [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
I just realised two facts. One fact is that the hair of leading ladies in Hindi movies play an important part in Hindi movies, especially in songs. when the Hero needs to sing a song in praise of her, what are the things about her that he can mention? He will sing about her face- [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 25, 2010
Here is another song that people listen and enjoy a lot without being aware of its details. All these days I only knew what I could hear. In other words, I only knew that this was a duet sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar.
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