Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for February 2012


Today (8th February) is the birthday anniversary of Jagjit Singh. On this occasion, here is a ghazal sung by him.

The ghazal is from a movie that is quite new by the standards of this movie. Mr Sadanand Kamath, who sent me the lyrics of this movie allayed my fears by assuring me that the song does have the familiar old world feel about it which we are used to in the songs that are discussed in this blog.
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“CID” (1956) as well as “CID 909” (1967) had music by the same music director, viz O P Nayyar. Unlike “CID” (1956), “CID 909” was a B grade movie though. It was a Bindu Kala Mandir Presentation, which was directed by Muhammad Hussai. The movie had up and coming B grade actors namely Feroz Khan and Mumtaz in lead roles, with Helen, Rajen Haksar, Brahm Bharadwaj, Ram Mohan, Rajen Kapoor, Tuntun, Bela Bose, B. Mehta also figuring in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The film titled ‘Baadshah’ (1964) was produced under the banner of Navkala Niketan, with Dara Singh and Nishi in lead roles. The film is a costume action drama, set in an unspecified time period, with all the regular components of palaces, kings, court dances, royal intrigues, and since Dara Singh in the hero – it also has feats of strength and hand to hand combat.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

Another wonderful song pulled out from memory, and another as yet unknown film (to me) discovered. Awaara Abdullah is a film released in 1963 by Henna Films, Bombay. The direction is by Tara Harish, a name that is unfamiliar. It sounds like a joint name of two people, but I could be wrong.
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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.

PARDESI (1957) was an Indo-Soviet co-production film in Hindi and Russian languages . The Hindiversion of the film was directed by K A Abbas and the star cast included Balraj Sahani, Nargis, Oleg Strizhenov, Prithviraj Kapoor, Jairaj, David, Padmini. The film did not create a stir at the box office but was nominated for Cannes Film Festival (1958.) M R Acharekar got the Filmfare award for the best art direction (1958) for this film.
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“Raakhi”(1962) was a Prabhuram pictures production and it was produced by Shivaji Ganeshan, the then superstar of Tamil movies. A Bhimsingh was the director of the movie. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pradeep Kumar, Ameeta, Lalita Pawar, Master Shahid, Raj Mehra, Mallika, Mehmood, Mohan Choti, Shivaraj, Randhir, Madan Puri, Om prakash, Umesh Sharma, etc in it.
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