Archive for March 2011
Aurat ne janam diyaa mardon ko
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
Ninety years ago, this day, the 8th of March, saw the birth of a certain Abdul Hayee in Ludhiana, Punjab.
It may seem like a routine event. After all, aren’t people born every day?
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Ye hawaa ye hawaa ye hawaa
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
While posting the song “in hawaon mein” from Gumraah (1963) recently, I discussed at length my fascination for BR Chopra films. I will not repeat myself here but I will just say that most of his films had fabulous songs too.
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In this blog, I normally discuss songs from several artists unless it is a special occasion. On special occasions, depending on the nature of the occasion, songs may be from one genre or from one artist. Today (8 march) is a special occasion. It was on this day in 1921 that Sahir Ludhianvi was born.
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“Waqt” (1965) was the first multi starrer Hindi movie of the golden era. It had several leading stars of the time namely Sunil Dutt,Sadhana,Raj Kumar,Sharmila Tagore,Shashi Kapoor,Balraj sahni,Achla Sachdev etc. The story line, that had the big family of Balraj Sahni separating in an earthquake, only to meet again towards the end, may look hackneyed now, but it was a novelty those days.In fact, it was the story of this movie that led to multi-starrers, as well as lost and found movies of 1970s.
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1963 was a year when Hindi movie music was at its pinnacle. There were countless musical extravanzas that were released that year. Just thinking about the names of the movies boggles the mind. In this year, we had movies like “Mere Mehboob”, “Apna Bana Ke dekho”, “Asli Naqli”, “Meri Soorat teri aankhen”,”Sehra”,”Ye raaste hain pyaar ke”,”Ustaadon ke ustaad”,”Bharosa”,”Dil Ek Mandir”,”Professor”,”Gumrah”,”Pyaar kiya to darna kyaa”,”Bluff Master”,”dil Hi to Hai”,”Ek Dil Sau Afsaane”,”Aaj aur Kal”,”Gehra Daag”,”Bandini”,”Dil Tera Deewaana”,”Tere Ghar Ke Saamne”,”Rustam Sohrab”,”Bin Baadal Barsaat” etc etc.
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“Phir Subah Hogi” (1958) is a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha. This movie has a thought provoking story as well as thought provoking songs in it.
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Apne khayaalon ko samjhaa deejiye
Posted on: March 8, 2011
“Marine Drive” (1955) is a B grade movie starring Ajit and Bina Rai. And like all such movies, this movie too had A grade music. The movie and its music may not be very well known today, but the music is wonderful to listen to, if one digs up the songs of this movie.
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Aayiye meharbaan
Posted on: March 7, 2011
My regular visitors may have noticed that these days I tend to discuss several songs of some particular artists and then my preference of artists suddenly undergoes a change. I had discussed the method behind this madness in an earlier post.
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Tu ladki main ladkaa ladkaa
Posted on: March 7, 2011
Songs and dances play a very important role in Hindi movies. In olden days, lead actors were needed to sing and dance. Once playback singing began, actors were thankfully no longer required to sing their own songs, but they were still required to dance. That is especially true for actresses and proficiency in dancing was an important skill for them.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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