Archive for March 2012
Na tum mere na dil mera
Posted on: March 4, 2012
Kamla Jharia is one of the earliest,biggest and most respected names among singers in the world of Hindi NFS.
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Chupke chupke bol maina
Posted on: March 4, 2012
Most music lovers,including me, are aware of the music composed in Hindi movies, but only a small fraction of these music lovers have been exposed to NFS that were also created during the same era.
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Though movie songs have been the staple diet for Indian music lovers over the decades, there used to be a small and loyal market for non film songs (NFS), also known as private songs. Singers like Jagmohan Sursagar, Talat Mehmood, C H Atma, Juthika Ray etc were the biggest names on the private music circles.
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Tu dhoondhta hai jisko
Posted on: March 4, 2012
“Yatrik” (1952) was a New Theatre (Calcutta) production. It was directed by Kartik Chatterji. The movie had Vasant Chaudhary, Arundhati Mukherjee, Abhi Bhattacharjee etc in it.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Excuse me, I am going to boast a bit here. In my last post here, on Dil ko hai tumse pyaar kyun sung by Jagmohan, I had written that I used to listen to the songs again and again till I knew them by heart. The lyrics of this song that I present today have been recounted from my memory of that song. I was checking out the robust discussion in the comments section of the previous post, and struck my head when I read in the comments that the lyrics were by Faiyyaz. It should have clicked in my head, because the song below has the line ‘Faiyyaz ki badnaam mohabbat ko dua do’.
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Tum miley pyaar se
Posted on: March 3, 2012
1970s, especially the first half of it was ruled by R D Burman as a music director. So much so that the other music directors too began to compose music that sounded like R D Burman’s music. And of course they began to use the voice of Kishore Kumar also, who had become the top male singer just as R D Burman had become the top music director.
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“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
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What came first ? Chicken or the egg ? This is perhaps one of the longest standing questions of all time. The question has not yet been resolved to this date. Naturally, of course.
Here is a fun song which begins with this line and then deals with some other equally and even more fun lines.
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Koi mujhse poochhe ke tum
Posted on: March 3, 2012
Today (3rd March) is the 86th birhday of Ravi. On this occasion, we in this blog wish him a very happy birthday and wish him a long and healthy life.
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Koi mere sapnon mein aaya
Posted on: March 3, 2012
“New Delhi” (1956) was a Deluxe Fims presentation. It was directed by Mohal Sehgal. Starcast of the movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Prabhu Dayal, Dhumal, Radhakrishan, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Mumtaz Begum, Shivraj, Sheela Kashmiri, Jabeen Jalil, Mirajkar etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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