Archive for September 2011
During the discussions of a few old songs in this blog, the mention of “Aadmi” (1939) has been made a few times. This movie was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi as well as Indian cinema.
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Main jo dinan ki thhoree
Posted on: September 11, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Kidar Sharma ‘Hasrat’, the famous lyricist, writer and filmmaker, recounts his association with Saigal Saab, while working on the film Tansen and Bhanwara. It was early 40s, and Saigal Saab was still associated with the New Theatres in Calcutta on a contract basis. Chandulal Shah of Ranjit Movietone (Bombay) planned the film Tansen, and the obvious choice for the title role was Saigal Saab. After some negotiations with New Theatres, Chandulal Shah obtained permission for having Saigal Saab work temporarily with Ranjit Movietone. The understanding was for a fixed period of time, and not for completing an assignment.
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Idhar to aao mere sarkaar
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie which was a Kuldip pictures production. It was directed by S K Ojha. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. But if IMDB is to be believed then Cuckoo, Jeewan and Kuldip Kaur were the stars of this movie. 🙂
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There are many well known songs from yesteryears that are not yet discussed. In some cases, I am aware about this fact. In other cases, I was under the impression that these songs were already discussed.
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Subah ki angdaayi hoon
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“‘Ameer” (1954) is such a rare and obscure movie that if one tries to search for this movie on search engines, one gets “Amar” (1954) instead. And needless to say, no information is available on this movie on internet.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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“Moti Mahal” (1952) is a movie about which only sketchy information is available. This movie was a Nigaristan Films production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave and it had Ajit, Suraiyya,Veera,Jeevan, Tabassum, Satish,Ratan Kumar, Roopmala etc in it.
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Tum meri jeewan naiyya ho
Posted on: September 10, 2011
“Panghat” (1943) is a Prakash pictures movie which was produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by K J Parmar and Mahesh Chandra. There was not much known about this movie, but thanks to Mr Arunkumar’s comments about this movie in another song of “Panghat”, we now have a good idea about the story of this movie as well as about the actors.
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