Archive for February 2012
In Hindi movies, we have songs for all occasions that touch the lives of Indians. Thus we have songs for various human feelings like joys, sorrows, love, hate etc. Then there are songs for various Indian festivals. We also have songs for special occasions like birthdays, weddings etc.
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Sab pyaar ki baaten karte hain
Posted on: February 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had resolved not to access any Hindi film related websites for few days to enable me to attend to some other pending works which included writing my travel blogs. But the urge to listen to old Hindi film songs was so strong that this resolution was broken in less than 24 hours. It appears that listening to and discovering new ‘gems’ from old Hindi film songs is an addiction for which there is no detoxification therapy. 😀
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There have been two movies called “Sharaarat”, which were released in 1959 and 1972. Both these movies were musical blockbusters.
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“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films production. It was directed by O P Ralhan and the starcast included names like Shammi Kapoor, Raagini, Amrit Rana, Johnny Walker, Shobha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S. Banerjee, Tuntun etc.
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“Udan Khatola” (1955) was a Sunny Productions movie. It was directed by S U Sunny and the starcast had names like Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Surya Kumari, Jeevan, Agha, Nawab, Tuntun etc.
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Dard e jigar thahar zaraa
Posted on: February 5, 2012
I have discussed one song from “Aurat”(1953) recently. Not much information about this movie was available on internet till then. But now, thanks to the comments provided my Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our inhouse expert on obsure movies had provided us with all the information about this movie that we may need.
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Jhummak jhummak chal mere haathi
Posted on: February 5, 2012
In Hindi movies, there are very few songs that can be described as children’s songs, which comes as quite a surprise seeing that children always form a good percentage of Indian population. Perhaps the fact that they do not hold the purse strings of the family may well be the reason why children’s songs are few and far between.
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I have discussed songs from “Taqdeer” (1943) as well as “Taqdeer” (1967) in this blog. It turns out that there was a movie with this title in 1950s too.
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“Udan Khatola” (1955) was a Sunny Art Production movie. It was directed by S U Sunny. Starcast of the movie included names like Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Surya Kumari, Jeevan, Agha, Nawab, Tuntun etc.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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