Archive for November 2011
Film “Dharam”(1945) was produced by Rattan Bai for Star Productions. Little information is available about this obscure movie. Various internet sources (all copying from the same source material) mention that this movie had seven songs in it. While the titles of songs are known and names of singers are also mentioned, lyricists of these songs are not known. The music was composed by Sajjad Hussain.
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Samay o dheere chalo
Posted on: November 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Bhupen Hazaarika, the sound and the soul of culture of the east, is now silent, forever. A stalwart of many talents who would be honored by audiences and critics in many countries, a multi faceted personality who was single handedly responsible for breathing life into the endeavors of Assamese cinema, bringing international recognition to the age old music and culture of far eastern India.
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Jab dard nahin thhaa seene mein
Posted on: November 7, 2011
I have often opined that people who can be the most playful when happy can also be the most mournful when sad. Kishore Kumar is quite an interesting study in contrast that way. He is mainly known for his happy go lucky genre of songs and acting, but when it came to producing movies, most of his movies, except “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) were all serious movies. Likewise, when one makes a list of the most memorable songs sung by Kishore Kumar, lots and lots of serious/sad songs are bound to figure in that list. In fact, Kishore Kumar has sung more sad/serios songs than is normally believed.
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“Pyaar Ki Baazi” (1967) is a by now forgotten movie. This B grade movie was a Salim Productions movie. It was directed by S. J. Keshwani and A. K. Chalukya. The movie had Vijaya Choudhary, Jagdeep, Anant Kumar, Paro, Anuradha etc in it.
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“Chhoti Si Mulaaqaat” (1967) was a movie produced by a production house called Our Movies. Uttam Kumar, by now a legend in Bangla movies was the producer and the movie was directed by Alo Sarkar. The movie had Vyjayanthi mala, Uttam kumar, Yogita Bali, Rajendranath, Veena, Shashikala, Tarun Bose
Pratima Devi, Badri Prasad, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ratan Gaurang, Praveen Paul, Radheshyam,Sanjeev Kumar etc in this movie. This movie was based on a Bangla story “Agnipariksha” written by Ashapoorna Devi.
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“Paalki” (1967) is a Poonam Pictures presentation. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul and S U Sunny. The movie had Rajendra Kumar,Waheeda Rehman,Rehman, Johnny Walker, Murad, Rashid Khan, Nazir Hussain, Manmohan Krishna, Minoo Mumtaz, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Hum Deewaane” (1965) is by now an obscure movie. This B grade movie was produced by Young India Entertainers and it was directed by Bhagwan. Bhagwan himself played the lead role in this movie alongwith Chandrashekhar, Mumtaz, Anwar, Agha, Maruti, Iftekhar, Rajen Haksar, Helen etc.
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Aaj madhuvaataas doley
Posted on: November 7, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Presenting the song in response to the farmaish posted by Lalitha ji.
Stree (1961) is another classic creation by the legendary V Shantaram. The film depicts the story of Shakuntala and Dushyanta (from the epic Mahabharat). For V Shantaram, this was a remake of his earlier film Shakuntala (1943). Interestingly, the earlier film was made with Jayashree (mother of Rajshree) in the role of Shakuntala. At that time, Jayashree was married to V Shantaram. The 1961 remake featured Sandhya in the main role, and after divorce with Jayashree, Sandhya was now the wife to V Shantaram, who himself re-enacted the role of Dushyanta in the movie.
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“Khel” (1950) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Shaheen Pictures production and it was directed by S M Nawab. The movie had Dev Anand,Nigar Sultana, Nargis, Hafiz Jehan, , Anwar, Neelam , Murad etc as far as one can tell.
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