Archive for January 2012
Most nation building songs in Hindi movies tend to be jingoistic songs. But there are songs which take a long hard hitting looks at the weaknesses of the nation.
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When I saw the lyrics of this song sent to me by nahm, I thought that she had sent this lyrics by mistake. How can this song be not yet posted ? But when I checked up, I found that not only this song, but in fact none of the songs of this movie, namely “Neela Aakash” (1965) have figured in the blog so far. So that makes this song a “How come this song is ot yet posted !” category of song.
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“Saaqi” (1952) is a movie which was produced by Talwar Films and directed by H S Rawail. The starcast of the movie included names like Premnath, Madhubala, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Iftekhar, Gope, Mohana, Randhir, Mumtaz, Uma Dutt etc.
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Tum ho saath raat bhi haseen hai
Posted on: January 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Jism ko maut aati hain lekin, ruh ko maut aati nahin hain”. These are lines in the song “Kaun hai jo sapno main aayaa” from film “Jhuk Gayaa Aasmaan “(1968), which can be applied to many Hindi films, especially of golden era of Hindi film songs which ‘died’ in no time as soon as they were released. But many of songs from such films remained immortal.
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“Champakali” (1957) is a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Nadlal Jaswantlal. The starcast included names like Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen,Pran, Mubarak, Shobha Khote, S. L. Puri, Mumtaz Begum, Ram Avtaar etc.
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“Poonam”(1952) is a movie produced by Kay Arts. P N Arora was the producer and M Sadiq directed the movie. The star cast included names like Ashok KUmar, Kamini Kaushal, Sajjan, Omprakash, Asha Mathur etc.
I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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There are songs which people may have heard for the last time several decades ago, or perhaps they may have never heard them before. Listening to such songs are like stumbling upon a long lost acquaintance, or like meeting someone whom you should have known much earlier.
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Yaad aayi hai bekasi chhaayi hai
Posted on: January 20, 2012
“Nageena”(1951) was a Pancholi Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Nutan, Gope, Hiralal, Mohana, Goldstein, Shamlal, Bipin Gupta etc.
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On the occasion of Kaifi Azmi’s birthday (19th january), we are discussing a few songs written by Kaifi Azmi.
Here is a song from “Arth” (1982). This song, which is picturised as a get together song, is sung by Jagjeet Singh. It is picturised on Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda etc. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kuldeep Singh Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh.
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