Archive for January 2011
26th January (Republic day) and 15 august (Independence day) are the two national days in India when National flag is hoisted all over the country. This blog also joins in the celebration. After this blog began in july 2009, we have had two independence days and two republic days. During those occasions, this blog discussed the the popular patriotic songs from Hindi movies. Many of these songs have gone on to become iconic songs.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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Tum meet mere tum praan mere
Posted on: January 25, 2011
“Jeet” (1949) is a movie that paired Suraiyya (a popular star of the time) with Dev Anand, then a new comer.
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Aaj ronaa padaa to samjhe
Posted on: January 24, 2011
“Girl friend” (1960), not to be confused with “Boyfriend” (1961) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Daisy Irani, Nazir Hussain, Bipin Gupta, Leela Mishra etc.
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O o o o baby
Posted on: January 24, 2011
One normally associates Hemant Kumar’s voice and music with soft romantic/sentimental songs. But that does not mean that he could not sing /compose other kind of songs.
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“Ek Jhalak” (1957) is a movie that starred Pradeep Kumar,Vyjyanti Mala, Rajendra Kumar, Anita Guha,Pran, Om Prakash,Mubarak etc. This movie had some nice songs in it. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bandi” (1957) in the past. Here is a song from this movie that begins immediately after the opening credits are over. So this song just misses out from becoming a movie opening song.
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Kare na jo bandon se pyaar
Posted on: January 23, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Bandhan”. The oldest such movie was “Bandhan” (1938) which had music by Saraswati Devi. Then there was a Rajesh Khanna starrer “Bandhan” (1969) that had music by Kalyanji Anandji.
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“Ek Jhalak” (1957) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar,Vyjyanti Mala,Anita Guha,Rajendra Kumar,Om Prakash, Mubarak, Pran etc. This movie may have been forgotten today, but this movie to my mind should be remembered for the songs and music of Hemant Kumar.
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Kabhi ye to mujhse poochho
Posted on: January 23, 2011
Look what I just discovered. While looking for some other songs,I just stumbled against a rare gem !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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