Archive for September 2010
Regular Hindi movie watchers may have certainly watched a few historical/mythological movies involving Kings. In these movies,King and his ministers would assemble in a Raj Darbaar (King’s court) the way today’s Business houses have their General Body Meeting. What is common in all these meetings is that after the meeting, there would be often by an entertainment programme. Today, the location of entertainment may be different from that of the meeting, but that was not the case in historical times. The entertainment programme would take place in the Raj darbaar itself.
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Though I have posted nearly three thousand wonderful songs in this blog, the lost list of pending farmaishes shows that countless more number of songs, including some very popular songs, are yet to be posted.
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“Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere” (1960) is a B grade movie, going by its star cast. It has Balraj Sahni and Kumkum in lead roles and Dharmendra makes his acting debut in this movie.
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Udan khatole pe ud jaaun
Posted on: September 5, 2010
In Hindi movies, Kids are supposed to be a straight line extention of grown ups, so they are shown behaving like grown ups. Lead actors who are shown in love with each other in their grown up age are shown to be in love with each other even in their childhood in case their childhood is depicted in the movie.
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Mat bolo bahaar ki batiyaan re
Posted on: September 5, 2010
While looking up information about Naushad, I found out that he made his debut as a music director in 1940 in a movie called “Prem Nagar”. In this movie he composed as many as 13 songs. Those are the days when actors themselves used to sing their own songs.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Debuts tend to be an interesting events for lots of people. Not only are they a nervous occasion for the debutant(e) but they are also a talking point for observers. Every aspect of the debut is analysed.
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I recall listening to this song quite a lot and liking it too. I knew that the song was sung by Mahendra Kapoor, but that is all I knew about this song. And as this song ran its course, I forgot all about this song.
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Ye Lucknow ki sarzameen
Posted on: September 4, 2010
Hindi movie songs are mostly about human feelings, viz love, sadness,happiness etc. As a kid, I was not much into such high sounding songs, especially sad/serious songs. I was more into fun songs.
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Dil meraa naache thunak thunak
Posted on: September 4, 2010
There are several Hindi movies with grand sounding titles, but here is a very homely kind of a title for a movie. It is called “Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960), which means “My home and my kids”. How very plebian !
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“Raajhath” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mabhubala. This movie had some lovely songs in it. I have posted two songs from this movie already including the fabulous Ye waada karo chand ke saamne.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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