Archive for 2010
Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. Music directors like C Ramchandra and Vinod, to mention a few, were composing quite a few rock and roll kind of songs those days.
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“Baaraati” (1954) is an obscure movie that starred Agha,Chand Usmani, Sham Kumar,Om Prakash etc. Few people remember this movie today. The songs of this movie are nice songs to listen to, though.
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Muhabbat ek sholaa hai
Posted on: November 17, 2010
“Aagosh” (1953) was a movie starring Nasir Khan (Dilip Kumar’s brother), Nutan,Shakeela, Agha etc. Today this movie may not be much known, but its songs were quite popular during its time.
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Get together songs, accompanied by piano were introduced in Hindi movies in late 1940s. Such songs became standard fare in Hindi movies and remained so for the next three decades or so.
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Meri ho gayi unse baat
Posted on: November 17, 2010
By now I have discussed as many as 39 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain for Hindi movies. Considering that he gave music for only about 100 songs, finding the remaining songs is becoming increasingly difficult and so discovery of every additional Sajjad Hussain song from now onwards in a cause to rejoice, because the remaining song are truly difficult to locate.
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I have listened to this song since my childhood, and it is one of those songs that left their permanent mark on my then impressionable mind.
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Mehfil se uthh jaane waalon
Posted on: November 16, 2010
After posting four songs for the day, I suddenly realised that today is 16th november, Roshan’s death anniversary. My original plan was to discuss only Roshan songs and a total of five Roshan songs today. I can do that even now, but that would be an overkill. So I am going to discuss two Roshan songs today.
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Ab der ho gayi wallah
Posted on: November 16, 2010
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The lyrics of most Sajjad Hussain compositions are serious affairs, but this song is an exception. It is a love song alright, but here the lovers have more practical matters to consider instead of talking poetry and astronomy. Mumtaz, who has come to meet Premnath, her lover, is getting delayed and she has to leave. And that is what this song is all about.
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Ruk jaao na jee aisi kyaa jaldi
Posted on: November 16, 2010
In Hindi movies, songs have traditionally played many roles. For one, songs are often the main reason why many people come to watch the movie. In one old movie, which had no songs in it, the maker had to actually explain it to the audience why that movie had no songs. And that explanation cut no ice with the public.
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“Sawera” (1958) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles. Like most movies of those days, this movie too had some nice songs in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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