Archive for September 2011
Very little information is available about the movie “Zamaana” (1938). This movie was produced by Krishn M and directed by Raam Daryani and it had actors like Ameena, Bansi Karnataki, Gope,Gulab, Hansa Wadkar,Jeewan, Majid, Nazir, Padma Devi, Vasant etc.
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Kab tak niraasha ki andhiyaari
Posted on: September 22, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music has always been an enchanting appeal for me, since my childhood. Having grown up on a listening diet of radio programs on AIR and Radio Ceylon, the music of Hindi films has been the best charm for me. In the eighties, fresh out of college, and into my first job, the earnings meant that now I could buy music that I wanted to listen. Cassette tapes were the popular media in those days, and making copies of music from records was a rampant cottage industry.
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Ye bheegi fizaayen
Posted on: September 21, 2011
“Kaanch Aur Heera” (1972) was a B grade movie produced by Sudarshan Chitra and directed by Charandas Shokh. The makers of this movie must have been great believers in winning lottery or stock market riches, seeing that they had staked the future of their movie on names like Pankaj and Shaheen. Yes, they were the lead actors in this movie. Other in the cast were Rajan Haksar, Kamal Kapoor, Manmohan etc.
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Janam se banjaaraa hoon bandhu
Posted on: September 21, 2011
“Raahgeer” (1969), also spelt “Rahgir” is a forgotten movie even though it is a “recent” movie by the standads of this blog. This movie was a Geetanjali Chitradeep production and it was directed by Tarun Majumdar. This movie had Biswjeet, Nirupa Roy, Asit sen,Sandhya Roy,Basantha/vasantha Chowdhury,Shashikala, Padma Chauhan,Anwar Hussain, Pahari Sanyal, Master Prasenjit,Ifthekar, Kanhaiyyalal etc in it.
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“Ghazal” (1964) was a Natraj Productions movie and it was directed by Ved Mohan. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari,Pratima Devi,Nazima, Prithviraj, Rajendranath, Raj Mehra, Mohsin Abdulla, Rehman, Lotan etc in it.
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Here is a song from “Sabak” (1950). It is sung by Surinder Kaur. D N Madhok is the lyricist. Music is composed by A R Qureshi.
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“Raat Ki Raani” (1949) was a J S Pictures presentation.Jagdish Sethi, who was the owner of the J S Pictures was also the director of this movie. He in fact acted in this movie too. The movie had Munawwar Sultana, Shyam, Sulochana Chatterji, Madan Puri, Jagdish Sethi, Om Prakash, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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When we discuss old songs of 1930s and 1940s, we tend to believe that those songs were all serious songs. That is not really the case. In all generations of music one can find light hearted songs as well.
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Madbhari rut jawaan hai
Posted on: September 21, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pankaj Mullick, the name that shines in the Bengali music and culture as one of the brightest stars. Most of us are familiar with Pankaj Babu as being an accomplished composer and singer. But, much more than that, he was an innovator par excellence. Not many are familiar with the fact that this gifted musician, through his experimentation with providing music to films, originated the concept of background music in Indian cinema, to accentuate the emotions, the action and the pace of the scenes on screen.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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