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Pyaar huaa iqraar huaa hai
Posted on: February 12, 2012
- In: "Umbrella" song | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lata song | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Manna Dey songs | Manna Dey-Lata duet | Rain song | Raj Kapoor songs | Raj Kapoor songs by Manna Dey | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1955 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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As iconic songs go, this song is as iconic as any. I in fact was under the impression that this song was already discussed and that too long back. But I was wrong of course.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
SHAGOOFA (1953) was the first film produced under the banner of P N Films – a production company of Premnath and Bina Rai who were also in the lead roles in this film. The other cast included Purnima, Bipin Gupta,Sundar, Yashodara Katju and Rajendranath. The film was directed by H S Rawail.
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“Patanga”(1949) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail and the starcast had names like Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Raat hai nikhhri huyi
Posted on: February 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I just stumbled upon a beautiful duet ‘raat hai nikhri huyi’ sung by Krishna Goyal and Geeta Dutt from the film MALLIKAA (1956) under the music direction of the great Hansraj Bahl. Tanveer Naqvi is the lyricist.
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Here is another song of the popular genre namely “How come this song was not yet discussed ! ” 🙂
This is a well known evergreen song which most music lovers know even if many of them are not aware of the details of the song. Even I was not aware about the details. It is only now that I have becme aware that this song is from ‘Hamraahi” (1963) and that it is picturised as a melancholic song on Rajendra Kumar and Jamuna.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had taken it for granted that the song ‘zindagi ki kasam ho chuke unke ham’ from film MAALIK (1958) has already been discussed in this blog. When I saw the movie-wise list of songs just to know in which year this film was released, I found that two songs from this film have been discussed and this song was not one of them.
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“Rattan” (1944) was a movie whose songs were based on folk music instead of classical music as was the norm those days. That helped ordinary folks to identify with and connect with the music of this music. The result was unprecedented. The producer of this movie earned more money through the music rights than through the screening of the movie.
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