Archive for January 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) is today mainly rememebered as the movie which calapulted Rafi to the big league with his by now iconic song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. This movie had other nice songs in it as well. As many as five songs from this movie have been discussed in the blog.
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In was just recently that I discovered the fact that the songs of “Neela Aakaash” (1965) were not discussed in the blog. After that, two songs have been covered in the blog. The remaining songs of the movie are also required to be discussed.
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Ye samaa hai mera dil jawaan
Posted on: January 29, 2012
“Samrat Chandragupta”(1958) was a Mukti Films preduction. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry and the star cast included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Lalita Pawar, B. M. Vyas, Ullhas, Anwar Hussein, Krishna Kumari, Samra Roy, Dalpat etc.
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“Kamal Ke Phool” (1950) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was a Famous Pictures Production. It was directed by D D Kashyap and the star cast included names like Badri Prasad, Suraiya, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Niranjan Sharma, Shakuntala, Amarnath etc in it.
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Just now I came across a fantastic duet song from the era gone by. What a delightful song ! A song like this can magically transport the listeners back in time to those days, even if those days happened to be days before many of us were even born.
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“Ek Din Ka Sultan” (1945) is by now an obscure movie. This movie had Ghulam Mohammad, Mehtab, Wasti, Sadiq Ali etc in lead roles.
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Dil ek mandir hai
Posted on: January 28, 2012
Today (28th january) is the birth anniversary of Suman Kalyanpur. On this occasion, here is the title song of “Dil Ek Mandir” (1963). The song is a duet which is sung by Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur and it is picturised as the movie ending song as we see people mourning the death of Rajendra Kumar in the picturisation and the movie comes to an end. This song is the title song of the movie as well.
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Aayee jhoom ke basant
Posted on: January 28, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enhusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings to all on the occasion of Basant Panchmi today, the festival that heralds the onset of the spring season. Although it is still the month of Maagh (as per the Hindu calendar) and the beginning of the month of Pha’gun, which is the month of colors, is still a few days hence, the season of colors and freshness has been initiated. (Pha’gun is the month of colors, and the last day of Pha’gun is the celebration of Holi, which will be celebrated on 8th March this year). Basant is also a huge celebration with our brethren across the border, and the festival of kite flying and sumptuous food is already in progress since the day before. In Lahore, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Kasur and across all of the Punjab, this festival is energetically celebrated as ‘Jashn-e-Baharaan’ (Celebration of Spring) or simply, Basant.
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Ho jo hukum to meherbaan
Posted on: January 28, 2012
“Hongkong”(1962) was a Paachhi productions movie. It was directed by Paachhi and the star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Om Prakash, K N Singh, Helen, Helen, Lily, Leo, Bhalla, Baburao, Kitty, King Kong, Kundan, etc.
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