Archive for December 2011
During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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“Ham Bhi Insaan Hain” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was produced by V A K Productions. R Majumdar was the director. The sar cast included names like Abhi Bhattacharya, Lata Sinha, Anil Kumar, Kumar, Dhumal,Chaman Puri, Samar Roy, Lalita Kumari etc. Most names in the cast ring no bells. In other words, this movie was a B grade movie.
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Jab raat nahin kat’ti
Posted on: December 18, 2011
“Changez Khan” (1957) was a B grade movie which was produced by N C Films. Kedar Kapoor was the director and the star cast included names like Premnath,Bina Rai,Helen, Johnny Walker, Tiwari, Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevan, Leela Misra etc.
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Bairan nindiya kyun nahin aaye
Posted on: December 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
What an endearing song, and what a mellifluous voice. Such a wonderful gem of a song, from the first film for which Hansraj Behl composed the music. The film is ‘Pujari’ from 1946. This was the debut year for Hansraj Behl, and 3 films containing his compositions were released that year. As per records, this film is he first one for which he started composing.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This write up comes about in response to a request for translation by Khyaati ji. In a recent comment, she has requested for translation of this song, and realizing that this song is not yet posted, I am putting together this piece.
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Dil aisa kisi ne mera todaa
Posted on: December 16, 2011
Here is another song from my school days (1970s) that should have made it to this blog long back but somehow it did not. Perhaps I was subconsciously saving this song and other songs of those days.
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Here is a song that should have made it to the blog long time back but somehow it did not. It is a song from my days (viz 1970s) and it was quite an iconic songs of those days.
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“Kaali Ghata” (1951) was a Hindustan Chitra production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Bina Rai, Asha Mathur, Gope, Ulhas, Samson, Jeevan, Cuckoo, etc in it.
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“Ehsaan” (1970) is a movie that was released during the time when R D Burman gale force had had gathered momentum. Most movies with popular songs those days tended to have music by R D Burman. So is the case with “Ehsaan” (1970).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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