Archive for December 2010
Laagi naahin chhoote raamaa
Posted on: December 11, 2010
December 11 is the birthday of Dilip Kumar. I take this opportunity to discuss a few songs picturised on Dilip Kumar.
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One of my major sources of discovering “new” songs is the farmaishes that I get from my readers. These farmaishes have enabled me to enrich my knowledge of old movie songs considerably and that has enabled me to share those gems with my readers.
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“Badaa Aadmi” (1961) is a by now forgotten movie. It was a B grade movie with lesser known actors like Sheikh Mukhtaar, Vijaya Chaudhary etc in it.
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Chhoom chhanananan paayal boli
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ghar Ghar Mein Deewaali” (1955) by all indication was a B grade movie, going by the star cast which had Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in lead roles. Little is known about this movie, and its prints are apparently not available.
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Madan Mohan made his debut as a music director in 1950. In his debut movie “Aankhen” (1950), he used many singers, but curiously enough, Lata was not among them. From his next movie, Lata became an important singer for him.
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Aayi bahaar jiyaa dole moraa
Posted on: December 10, 2010
I was aware of “Aarzoo” (1965) which was a musical blockbuster. Then I became aware of another movie of this name that came in 1950 and I found the songs of this movie “boring”. In fact, that is what happened with me for songs of movies with similar names.Being a youngster growing in 1970s, I liked music of “Andaaz”(1971),”Adalat” (1976) , “Parvarish”(1977) and disliked music of older movies with same name and wondered why older generation created such “boring” music.
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Ab kaun sahaaraa hai
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ziddi” (1948) is a movie with which Kishore Kumar began his career as a playback singer. Another youngster,viz Prem Dhawan, too began his career as a lyricist with this movie.
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“Satyakaam” (1969), which was a critically acclaimed movie that failed at the box office, had some nice songs in it which have sadly been forgotten with time. And there are people like me who never heard the songs of this movie, despite living though that era.
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Everyone is aware that 1957 saw the movie “Mother India” in which Nargis played the central character. Few people know that the same year also saw the release of another movie called “Miss India”. And guess who played the central character in this movie ? It was none other than Nargis herself !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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