Archive for January 2012
Phool sa chehra chaand si rangat
Posted on: January 4, 2012
4th january is the birthday of Pradeep Kumar, a leading actor of 1950s and 1960s, who later began to play character roles in 1970s. That way, he was the male equivalent and contemporary of Nirupa Roy with whom he shares his date of birth.
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Jeewan ki beena ka taar boley
Posted on: January 4, 2012
Today (4th january) seems to be an important day for Hindi movies, seeing that several artists were either born on this day or they expired on this day.
Nirupa Roy, who in the mind of most moviegoers of my generation was immortalised as the long suffering mother of the hero (typically Amitabh Bachchan), was born on 4th january.
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Mere sainyya padoon painyya
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Naya Raasta” (1970) is a movie which was produced by I A Nadiadwala and directed by Akhtar Khalid. This movie had Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Sujit Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Farida Jalal, D K Sapru, Veena, Balraj Sahni, Kishan Mehta, Shefali, Roopesh Kumar etc in this movie.
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It happens quite often in this blog that when a song is discussed, readers exclaim- “what ! How come this song was not discussed as yet !”. My explanation is that there have been tens of thousands of great songs in Hindi movies, and we have discussed just a small portion of that huge collection of songs, so omission of many great songs should come as no surprise. Hopefully the number of omitted songs will gradually come down as we add more and more of such songs.
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Yahaan koi nahin tera mere siwaa
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a Chitralaya Pictures production. The movie was directed by C V Sridhar. The star cast of the movie included names like Raj kumar, Rajendra kumar, Meena Kumari, Baby Padmini, Krishna kumari, Taai Naagesh, Krishna Kumari, Achala Sachdev, Shubha Khote, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Randhir, Sundar, Shantini, Ram Mohan, Keshav Rana etc.
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“Sheroo” (1957) is an S P Productions movie. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Anoop Kumar, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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Shaam suhaanee nadee ke kinaarey
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Nishaan Danka” (1952) is a movie that few people may be aware of. This movie was a Vikas Prodctions presentation. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The star cast of the movie was quintessentially B grade, consisting of Ranjan, Shyama,Jeevan, Baby Tabassum etc.
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Regulars may have noticed that I posted three songs on the first of january 2012 early in the morning and then I did not appear on the blog again for the next 30 hours or so. I had an extremely hectic and tiring 30 hours during which I was unable to log on to internet.
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BA MA PhD ye diplomaay ye degree
Posted on: January 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Trying to think of all other songs on the Hindi screen that contain the names of the educational degrees and qualifications. How far back do you think this trend goes ? Well, all the way back to 1936, to the time of Saigal Saab. The film ‘Krorepati (The Millionaire)’ has a duet by Saigal Saab and Pahadi Sanyal –‘Jo Naukri Dilaa De, BA Dilaane Waale’ . Then the next one that I can locate is ‘Hum Se Nain Milaanaa BA Pass Kar Ke’ , a Madan Mohan / Raja Mehndi Ali Khan creation sung by Mukesh and Shamshad Begum in 1950. Then in 1954, the Kishore, Usha Kiran film ‘Adhikaar’ has a song ‘BA MA PhD’ created by Prem Dhawan and Avinash Vyas, and sung by Asha Bhosle. Then fast forward to 1971 and the path-breaking film by Gulzar, ‘Mere Apne’. And the song – ‘Haal Chaal Thheek Thhaak Hai’. The second line of the mukhdaa of this song goes like ‘BA Kiyaa Hai, MA Kiyaa; Lagtaa Hai Wo Bhi Aiwen Kiyaa Hai’.
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