Archive for November 2011
“Miss Coca Cola” (1955) is a Danny Films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Johnny Walker, Helen, Kuldip Kaur, Kamal Kapoor, Mumtaz Begum etc in it.
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Tu kyun mujhko pukaare
Posted on: November 13, 2011
I have mentioned the fact that Lata has the unique distinction of singing six different songs for six different actors in “Mayur Pankh”(1954). I have so far discussed two of these songs. It is only natural that I should want to discuss the other songs too.
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In my series of songs composed by Sajjad Hussain, I have been discussing the as yet undiscussed Sajjad Hussain songs from “Khel” (1950) these days. This movie had nine songs in it,and I have discussed as many as seven of them in the past.
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“Jagbeeti” (1946) is by now an extremely obscure movie. It was produced by Din pictures and it was directed by M Sadiq. The starcast of the movie, as mentioned in YT is Sadiq Ali, Auraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalyawala.
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Movies called “Taqdeer” have been produced from time to time. I have discussed three songs from “Taqdeer”(1967). Now I find that movies of these titles were produced in 1958 as well as in 1943.
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Ye kya huaa kaise huaa kab hua
Posted on: November 12, 2011
“Amar Prem” (1971) is a movie which had the cream of Hindi movie talents at work in it. Rajesh Khanna, the then superstar alongwith Sharmila Tagore figured in this movie. R D Burman, the hottest property among the music directors, composed music for this movie. Kishore Kumar, who had taken male playback singing world by storm, was also there to sing for this movie.
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“Muljim” (1963) is a movie which was directed by Nisar Ahmad Ansari. As was his wont , he also acted in this movie, though not as the lead man. The two ageing actors, namely Pradeep Kumar and Shakila, play the lead roles in this movie.
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Muhabbat ki daastaan aaj suno
Posted on: November 12, 2011
I became aware of this song accidentally while I was searching the details of another song of this movie. My search led me to this article on songs of Mayur Pankh (1954) by Richard S.
A little more digging up reveals that I may have inadvertently stumbled upon a movie that is a trivia buff’s delight.
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In 1970s, kids of my age (and for that matter much of the Indian population) who were used to movie songs of the kind popular in 1970s, found the singing style of old songs quite amusing. And Saigal’s singing style was the source of big mirth among people. There were people who would sing in Saigal style for the purpose of amusing themselves and others. Songs like “jab dil hi toot gaya” were “popular” for this purpose.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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