Archive for September 2011
Man mein uthhe uchhaale mere
Posted on: September 29, 2011
I had discussed a song from the obscure movie called “Preet” (1945). According to the little information available about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in it.
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“Moorti” (1945) is a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it.
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Aa aa bhi jaa raat dhalne lagi
Posted on: September 28, 2011
This is one of those songs that everyone is familiar with whether or not one is familiar with the details of the song. I too have heard this song countless times without being very sure which movie this song was from.
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In the earlier days of Hindi movie music, the songs were based on classical songs alone. With time, folk music based songs became to be composed and that led to a surge in the popularity of Hindi movie music.
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When the movie is called “Afsaana”, one expects to see the famous movie starring Ashok Kumar. This movie is called Afsaana, and Ashok Kumar is in it, but it is not that famous movie of 1951, which was the original movie that had identical twin brothers as well as “separated in the mela” relatives. 🙂 This “Afsaana” in contrast is a movie of recent vintage and it hardly troubled the box office much. Apart from Ashok Kumar figuring in both movies, “Afsaana” (1951) and “Afsaana” (1966) have little in common.
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“April Fool” (1964) was a movie produced and directed by Subodh Mukherji. Biswajeet and Saira Bano were the lead actors in this movie. Other actors were Jayant, Sajjan, Nazima, Rajen Haksar, Ram Avtaar, Sulochana, I. S. Johar, Chand Usmani etc.
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Ae chaand zaraa sun le
Posted on: September 28, 2011
“Pyaar ki Manzil” (1950), a by now obscure movie, was produced by a production house with a fancy name, viz. “Super Team Federal” ! This movie was directed by Keky Mistry. The movie had Rehman, Munawwar Sultana, Pratima Devi, Kamal, Gope, Ramesh Sinha, Sita Bose, Jankidas, Niranjan Sharma etc.
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“Yaasmeen” (1955) is a movie produced by Musical Pictures ! Yes, that is indeed the name of the production house that produced this movie.
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I was under the impression that the first time that we heard the reference to naagan (female cobra) and sapera (snake charmer) in Hindi movies was “Naagin” (1954). But it turns our that there was a song in “Kaun Hamara” (1947) where the song talks (figuratively) of the cobra of love biting a lady and she seeks (figurative or may be emotional) treatment from her beloved.
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