Archive for December 2011
Dil dai dai o naa lai lai
Posted on: December 20, 2011
“Senapati” (1961) is a movie I know nothing about. This extremely obscure movie was a Mohla films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Prithviraj Kapoor, Nalini Jaiwant, Amarnath, Tiwari, Durga Khote, K. N. Singh, Veena etc.
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Husn jawaan ishq jawaan
Posted on: December 20, 2011
In case of most movies, only a few songs become popular and other songs become forgotten with time. I have found that several of these forgotten songs are superb songs to listen to, and with some luck, they should have become popular songs, instead of ending up into the dustbin of obscurity.
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Aji chale aao aji chale aao
Posted on: December 20, 2011
There are several well known songs that I believe have already been covered in the blog but I often turn out to be wrong in my belief.
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Bachpan ki haseen manzil se
Posted on: December 19, 2011
Between 1950s to 1970s, there was a series of British movies whose titles began with “Carry on..” . These movies were low budget comedy movies, whose comedy consisted of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendre, as wikipedia puts it. In India, I S Johar took a leaf out of this “Carry On” series movies, and he produced a few such movies whose titles began with “Johar in..”.
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“Ek Saal Pehle” (1965) is a movie which was produced by S B Films. Dharam Kumar directed the movie and the “star” cast included names like Sujit Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Helen, Madhumati, K.N.Singh, Jagirdaar, Asit Sen, Sunder, Mohan Choti, Rajan Kapoor, Neelam etc.
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Kis tarah jeete hain ye log
Posted on: December 19, 2011
“Nai Roshni” (1967) is a forgotten movie despite being a “recent” movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had actors like Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Anwar Hussain, Asit Sen, Mala Sinha, Tanuja, Sulochana, Biswajeet, Pratimadevi etc in it.
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“First Love” (1961) is a Natraj Production movie. It was directed by Vedmohan. This by now obscure movie had actors like Mehmood, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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Aaye na baalam waadaa kar ke
Posted on: December 19, 2011
“Shabaab” (1954) was a Sadiq Preoduction movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Star cast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Badri Prasad, Yashodhara Katju, Wasti, etc. From the songs of this movie, I have deduced that the storyline of this movie was losely based on Sanskrit scholar Bilhan’s work which was written in 11th century AD. Bilhan should not be confused with Kalhan who also lived in the same areas (Kashmir), but one century later and who wrote “Rajtarangini”.
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Aaye bhi akela jaaye bhi akela
Posted on: December 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A wonderful gem from the film Dost from 1954. A very poignant song, which has been rendered so soulfully by Talat Saab. Such a soft and silky smooth rendition, in a manner that only he can accomplish.
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“Madaari” (1959) was a quintessential B grade movie. Such movies normally remained confined to their dedicated fans and failed to register among the mainstream movie watchers. But in some rare cases, the songs of such movies became so popular that mainstream movie watchers were made to sit up and take notice.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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