Archive for September 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pankaj Mullick fondly remembers his time and interactions with Saigal Saab. In the year 1931, Pankaj Mullick was associated with India Broadcasting Company, as a vocalist and a music trainer. This company ran the Calcutta Radio Station, (prior to the advent of All India Radio). One evening, Pankaj Da found a young gentleman in the waiting room for visitors. When asked about why he was there, the young man introduced himself as Kundan Lal Saigal, from Jalandhar, and said that he aspired to sing for the Calcutta Radio Station. Impressed with the winsome manner and a voice that enchanted, even as he spoke, Pankaj Da took him to meet NN Majumdar, the director of programs. An audition was arranged immediately. Pankaj Da writes, “. . . For its charming melody and rhythm, distinct pronunciation and neat articulation, embellished with an exceedingly sweet and melodious nasal tone, the audition emerged as something really superb. Mr. Majumdar arranged to broadcast Saigal’s song from the Calcutta Station that very night, and asked the young man to join straight away as a regular artist of the company”.
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“Chiraag” (1969) is a Suchitra pictures production. It was directed by Raj Khosla. This movie had a star cast consisting of Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Kanhaiyalal, Sulochana, Snehlata, Mukri, Ram Avtaar, Dulari, Asha Nadkarni etc in it.
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What song comes to our mind when a song begins “tumhe yaad hoga….” ? The classic “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song sung by Hemant Kumar-Lata of course. But there is another song that begins similarly. And this is a song that predates the “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song by half a decade.
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Dil mera tera deewaanaa
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Apni Izzat” (1952) was a B grade movie produced by Harishchandra Productions and directed by N Bhatt. This movie had Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Sulochana Chatterji, David Abraham, Gope, Yashodhara Katju, Yakub, Agha, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Ho ho ho chaandni raat hai
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a National Pictures production. It was directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Wasti, Suraiyya, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, M Ismail etc in it.
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Kete din aur kete din
Posted on: September 13, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The mention of Saigal Saab’s name evokes emotions of despondency and the sounds of a broken heart. He is mostly remembered for the sounds of melancholy songs, the tragic role of Devdas, the ghazals brimming with the stark philosophies of life, and the heart rending swansong ‘Jab Dil Hi Toot Gayaa. . .’ of the romantic Shahjehaan. And so it may surprise many a music an cine lovers, that Saigal Saab’s first forays in the arena of acting were in comedy roles.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a movie produced by N C Films. It was directed by Naresh Saigal. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Purnima, Naaz, Johnny Walker, Nimmi, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc in it. This movie has been by and large forgotten by now and most of the songs of this song have suffered the same fate.
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Most music lovers like to listen to light music and they run away a mile if they have to listen to classical music or classical music based songs. I was certainly one of them during my younger days.
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“Tel Maalish Boot Polish” (1961) is a B grade movie which was produced by Rajan films and it was directed by Romney Dey. This movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Chandrashekhar, Kumkum, Madan Puri, Agha, Amar, Radhika etc in it. This is the kind of B grade movie that had good scope foe being successful, what with this being an action movie with the original action hero in Sheikh Mukhtar. The fact that this movie had great music as befitting a B grade movie also helped.
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