Archive for March 2012
Raahi chal sambhal sambhal ke
Posted on: March 22, 2012
“Detective” (1958) was an Amiya Chitra Presentation. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Mala Sinha, Krishnakant, Dhumal, Johnny Walker, K. N. Singh etc.
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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.
About a month back, I stumbled upon a song ‘aankhen to huyi band magar dard jagaa re’ from the film BEGUM (1945) sung by Ashok Kumar. Until then, I had neither heard of this song nor of the film which had Ashok Kumar and Naseem Bano in the lead roles. I liked the song so much that I must have listened to it umpteen times. The song is written by Gopal Singh Nepali and set to music by Hari Prasanna Das (H P Das) whose name also I heard for the first time. From the Indian Film Trade Data website, I observed that H P Das had given music to 10 Hindi films between 1935 and 1948 including 2-3 films jointly with Manna Dey.
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Hari din to beeta raat huyee
Posted on: March 21, 2012
During the discussion on Rajkumari on the occasion of her death anniversary, it was mentioned that she sang her last song as a playback singer in “Kitaab”(1977).
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Ae mere dil jo chal diye
Posted on: March 21, 2012
Most music lovers are passive music lovers in the sense that they listen to songs that are on the air/TV etc. Then there are active music lovers who like certain songs and they actively seek those songs to listen to.
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This song is not one that too many people may have heard before. Those who hear this song for the first time will immediately exclaim that the song has the same tune as Ho leke pahla pahla pyaar (CID) . As it is, the composer is the same for both the songs, but as for being the original, this song is the original and the better known song from CID is the inspired song.
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“Maai Baap” (1957) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names viz Shyama, Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Nazir Hussain, Raj Mehra, S. N. Banerjee, Johnny Walker etc.
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Kenya Uganda Tangenika
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Hongkong”(1962) was produced and directed by Paachi. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen, Lily, Leo, Bhalla, Baburao, Kitty, King Kong, Kundan, Om Prakash, K. N. Singh etc.
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Munna taaron ka raaja
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) was a Deep and Sandeep Production movie. In other words, this movie was produced by Pradeep Kumar with his brother. Karunesh Thakur directed the movie and the starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Rehman, Jabeen Jalil, Leela Chitnis, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti, Shashikala, Jawahar Kaul etc.
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Paapi papeeha re pi pi na bol
Posted on: March 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, I got acquainted with some of the popular music directors of the pre-partition days mainly through listening to some of their bench-mark songs on Radio Ceylon. Khwaja Khurshid Anwar is one of those names.
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“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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