Archive for January 2012
Koi pukaare dheere se
Posted on: January 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the 75th birthday of Suman Kalyanpur (nee Hemadi). She was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka in undivided Bengal where she spent her early childhood. In some places, her maiden surname is spelt as Hemadey probably having something to do with her Bengal connection. Her family hailed from Hemadi village in Udipi district of Karnataka and belonged to Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community which has given actors/directors to Hindi cinema such as Guru Dutt, Girish Karnad, Shyam Benegal, Leena Chandavarkar, Deepika Padukone to name a few. Her family migrated from Dhaka to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1943. Talat Mehmood noticed Suman Kalyanpur during one of her concerts and was very much impressed with her singing. He agreed to sing a duet with her for the film Darwaaza (1954). The song was “ek dil do hain talabgaar” which was her first song as a playback singer for Hindi films.
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“Sabzbaagh” (1951) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a Nirmal Pictures presentation and it was directed by Aziz Kashmiri. Starcast of the movie included names like Shekhar, Nimmi, Cuckoo, Pran, Khanjar, Chand Burque, Rashid Khan, Om Prakash, Suraiya Choudhary, Kamal Kapoor, Majnu etc.
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“Qaidi” (1957) is an Eagle Films production. It was directed by Mohammed Hussain and the star cast included names like Padmini, Suresh, Agha, Anwar, Kumar, Kamal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Ragini etc.
This by now forgotten movie has songs that have also become forgotten with time. But the songs are nice to listen to.
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Ganga tera paani amrit
Posted on: January 26, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is a song on the occasion of 63rd Indian Republic Day on behalf of all NRIs. Even though we live outside “Bharat”, our heart and soul always remains in India.
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Dekho veer jawaanon
Posted on: January 26, 2012
On the occasion of the 63rd republic day of India (26th january 2012), we are discussing a few patriotic songs today.
Here is a song of this genre from “Aakraman” (1975). This song is sung by Kishore Kumar and it is picturised on Rajesh Khanna, who plays a handicapped person who has lost one leg and is forced to walk with the help of crutches. He sings this patriotic songs to encourage the Armymen who are proceeding to the battlefield. The picturisation also shows Sanjeev Kumar and several others play fauzi jawaans in this song.
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Watan pe jo fidaa hogaa
Posted on: January 26, 2012
Today (26th january 2012) is the 63rd Republic day of India. On this day, we in this blog post some patriotic songs from Hindi movies. Most well known patriotic songs, which one also listens on Indian radio stations and watches on TV stations on this occasion have already been discussed in the past and on this occasion (the fourth republic day for this blog), we will discuss some lesser known patriotic songs.
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Aapke khayaalon mein khoye
Posted on: January 25, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Khaakaan’ from 1965 is a film I have never heard about before. Given the star cast, with Dara Singh in the lead, it definitely must have been a B grade costume action drama, that probably would have made the rounds of the B cinema circuit, and then went away. This is a song that I have heard on the radio many many years ago, and its melody and memories have remained with me all these years, without really knowing anything about its antecedents. Recently, I discovered this song on YouTube once again, and then found out more about the film and the song itself.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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