Archive for June 2011
Baag lagaa doon sajni
Posted on: June 9, 2011
“Tansen” (1943) is a movie that had K L Saigal in title role of Tansen. So naturally it follows that this movie has some nice K L Saigal songs in it.
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Dekh lo aaj hamko jee bhar ke
Posted on: June 8, 2011
The dominant kind of music in 1980s was disco music. It was this kind of music that sounded the death knell of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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Popular wisdom about Sajjad Hussain is that he last composed for a Hindi movie in 1963. Fortunately, that is not the case. He, despite his troubles with movie makers continued to work till late 1970s. his last movie as a music director was in 1977 and this movie was “Aakhri Sajdaa” (1977). The star cast for this movie includes Maya Sinha, Tabrez, Murad, Veena, Jagdeep, Helen, Husn Banu etc.
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“Apsara”(1961) is a movie I know little about. And I was not aware about the songs of this movie either.
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Suno suno jee more rasiyaa
Posted on: June 8, 2011
V Shantaram movies tended to have himself and his wife (Sandhya/Jayshree- as the case may be) in his movies. And he tended to have Vasant Desai as the music director of his movies.
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What kind of songs does one expect from a movie that is titled “Aansoo” ? Melancholic songs, did you say ! How did you guess ? 🙂
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Mere ghoonghar waale baal ho raja
Posted on: June 8, 2011
From late 1950s onwards, we had Helen as the dancing sensation. Before her, we had Cuckoo. In a way, Cuckoo was the fore runner of Helen.
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I am aware of the movie “Saawan Bhaado”(1970) which was the debut movie of Rekha and Navin Nischol. But there was another movie of this name that was released as far back as in 1949.
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Awsar beeto jaat praani
Posted on: June 8, 2011
Most people do not value time as much as they value money. They do not realise that time, unlike money, continues to slip under our fingers irretrievably, every monent of our life. sixty minutes make an hour, and twentyfour such hours make a day. Thirty such days make a month, a couple of months make a season, six such seasons make a year, and with that one year is gone. Like this years continue to slip away. Most people waste their childhood in playing and their youth in carnal pleasures. And before they realise it, they have wasted their whole life without doing anything worthwhile ! They have wasted all the opportunities that came their way !
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Bade bhole ho hanste ho sunke duhaai
Posted on: June 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Meena Kumari, born Mahajabeen Bano, lived a relatively short life of 39 years, of which all but 4 years, she was working on the silver screen. Born of parents both of whom were stage and cinema artists, she took to working in films at the fragile age of four. She wanted to go to school, but the domestic economic situation decided otherwise for her. Her career took off in 1952/53 with hits like Baiju Baawra and Madhosh, and by the time she breathed her last in 1972, she had already acted in ninety plus films, and won 4 Filmfare awards. In the year 1962, she made history as being the only actress with three nominations for the best actress award in the same year (for Aarti, Mein Chup Rahoongi, and Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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