Archive for February 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Do not know if the director was running out of ideas, but this song appears to be a duplicate in some ways. The film is Baadhsah from 1964. Two songs from this film are already posted. With reference to the song “Ae Jee Mein Ne Kahaa Suniye To Zaraa” – when I compare these two songs, they seem to be very similar in intent and also in terms of the players on whom this is picturized. The earlier posted song is also performed on screen by this actress, Kumari Rani, trying to stop and annoyed looking Dara Singh from leaving her company. The scenario is repeated in this song also. Once again, the song is performed by Kumari Rani. Dara Singh is playing the offended gentleman, and the lady love is trying to stop him from leaving. In this case, the one additional characteristic stands out – apparently the lady knows some kind of magic, for she disappears and reappears a few times during the performance of this song.
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Kaun jaane har bahaaney
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
If I were to write that the ‘M’ in Mukesh stands for ‘Magic’, I am sure there will be very few who would disagree. This song – another wonderful duet by Mukesh and Asha Bhosle, is a magic colored with these two voices. A soft and light song of love, from two hearts that are probably finding love for the first time – and that the heart now smiles in happiness, for every reason, and at every pretext.
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Chaand jaisa badan
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When one is searching for music from the so called second rung music directors, one begins to come across films one never imagined they existed. Take this one for example. Kind of lost in the list of similar sounding films. There is a fair number of films that start with the word “Rustom”. ‘Rustom-e-Hind’, ‘Rustom-e-Rome’, ‘Rustam Sohrab. etc. This film has not yet appeared on this blog. So with this song, now the film “Rustom –e- Baghdad” makes an entry here. Produced in 1963 under the banner of Henna Films, Bombay and directed by BJ Patel. The star cast is impressive (for B/C grade) and includes Dara Singh, Vijaya Chaudhry, Chandrashekhar, Shakila Banu Bhopali, Bhagwan, Rajan Kapoor, Shashimala, Polson, Devichand, Sumitra, Maya Tandon, Bakhshi etc. As to the storyline, I would request other knowledgeable readers to please add more information about this film.
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Gham gaya to gham na kar
Posted on: February 17, 2012
- In: "Helen" song | Artist century song in blog | Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Century songs for the blog | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1962 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) is a Film Friends Production. It was directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Nadira, Achala Sachdev, Mukri, David, Helen, Murad, Baby Farida, Baby Vidyarani, Baby Vijaya, Jagdish Kamal, Nazir Kashmiri, Meenal, Soni Sultana, Indira, Jugnu etc.
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Bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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Mera jeewan saathi bichhad gaya
Posted on: February 17, 2012
“Baabul” (1950) was a Sunny Art Production. This movie was produced and directed by S U Sunny. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Munawwar Sultana, Amar, A. Shah, Jankidas etc in it.
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I S Johar was quite a maverick character in Hindi movies. He tended to make fun movies. His movies were inspired by the British series “Carry on..”. The titles of this movies, that took an irreverent view of things, tended to be along the lines of “Johar in …..”.
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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.
“Where have all the loris (lullabies) gone from the contemporary Hindi films?’ This question haunts me as I don’t find lori songs in the present day Hindi films unless I have missed them. Alternatively I may have heard them but did not get the feel of a lori song. In a way, it is a reflection on our present generation where the lori songs as a soothing device on kids for putting them to sleep early has been almost forgotten. I find that at least in the metropolis, most parents have no time to sing a 3-minute lori to put their kids to sleep.
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Kehta hai dil tum ho mere liye
Posted on: February 16, 2012
- In: "Piano" song | Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Shammi Kapoor songs | Shammi Kapoor songs by Talat Mehmood | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Talat Mehmood Asha Bhonsle duet | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Mem Sahib” (1956) was a lovely movie starring Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari and Shammi Kapoor. This movie was a fun movie which was great to watch. And the music was wonderful.
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Shaharyar, who died on 13th february 2012 wrote lyrics in only half a dozen movies, but his output as a movie lyricist was of a high calibre, as befitting a Jnanpeeth award winner, the highest literary award in India.
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