Archive for April 2012
Jeena hai kyaa koi kyaa jaane
Posted on: April 12, 2012
“Miss Cocacola” (1955) was a Danny Production movie. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Johnny Walker, Helen,Kuldip Kaur, Kamal Kapoor, Mumtaz Begum. This movie was Shammi Kapoor’s movie from his pre stardom days and a movie where he acted opposite Geeta Bali, his would be wife. Unfortunately the prints of this movie are not available. Not just public, even Shammi Kapoor had not seen this movie and it was Shammi Kapoor’s fond wish to be able to see this movie.
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Choodi main laaya anmol re
Posted on: April 12, 2012
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back I found myself translating a song from Achhut Kanya for Raja who is subtitling the movie for the famous DVD restorer Tom Daniel.
The movie is one of the most celebrated ones of Hindi Cinema, an early classic, and an Indo-German collaboration that starred Devika Rani and Ashok Kumar. However, what I didn’t know was that it contained a dance by Mumtaz Ali, the father of Mehmood and Minoo Mumtaz. I found Mumtaz Ali so captivating, his dancing and singing so natural and so impromptu that I went off on a google fired discovery of facts about him. As is often the case, any information on artists of this era is not easy to come by. After a day of looking high and low, I managed to unearth only one thing, that he was a scion of the royal family of Arcot.
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Bujhe bujhe rang hain nazaaron ke
Posted on: April 11, 2012
The fact that this “Amaanat”, starring Manoj Kumar and Sadhana was described as a 1977 release always intrigued me and many others since the songs of this movie were popular from much earlier. The timeless classic song, viz. Matlab nikal gaya hai to pahchaante nahin is from this movie and I recall hearing this song since my pre teen years i.e. right from early 1970s if not earlier.
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Jaane kyun preetam na aaye
Posted on: April 11, 2012
“Ek Thhi Reeta” (1971) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog, yet that has not prevented it from becoming an obscure movie nearly as soon as this movie was released. This movie was produced and directyed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Rehman, Yogiraj, I. S. Johar, Tanuja, Pompi, Mona Mullick, Manmohan Krishna, Madhu Kumar, Lolita Chatterjee, Daisy Irani, Faryal etc ion it and the movie must have sunk without a trace seeing that I had not heard of this movie during 1971 when I was a precocious kid keen to know about everything.
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“Ek Hi Raasta”(1956) was produced and directed by B R Chopra. As was his wont, this movie too was on a socially progressive theme of widow remarriage which was quite bold for the time and as a result it was a commercially risky proposition for the movie. But B R Chopra pulled it off and the movie became a commercial success and it was critically acclaimed too.
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Ae dard e jigar fariyaad na kar
Posted on: April 11, 2012
I became aware of the movie when farmaish for a song of this movie was given by a reader some two years back. The reader had mentioned the movie as “Banu” which was a typo and as a result my search was delayed. Finally I located the song. Being able to home in on this elusive song gave me tremendous satisfaction. That song was the first song from this movie to be posted in this blog. Subsequently I have discussed two more songs from this movie.
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Ye nazdeekiyaan
Posted on: April 10, 2012
This song has quickly become an earworm with me right from the time I was sent the lyrics of this song a few days back. So much so that today this song was playing in my mind even when I was in the process of discussing other songs for the day.
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Deewaana hoon main pyaar ka
Posted on: April 10, 2012
“Tu Nahin Aur Sahi” (1960) was a Radhika Chitra production. It was directed by Brij and the movie had Pradeep Kumar, Kumkum, Nishi, Minu Mumtaz, Helen, Tuntun, Murad, Kundan, Dinshaw, Amar, Anwar Hussain, Ramlal, Shyamlal etc in its cast.
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This article is written by nahm, a regular contributor of lyrics to this blog and a new contributor of write ups to this blog
I have been thinking for the last few days that it is high time that I make a serious attempt to do a write up. More than 200 song lyrics (Provided) by me are already posted here. When I found this blog in January last year, it was like I found heaven on the net. I was just sorry that 3000 plus songs were already discussed and I had found it so late. By then I was almost cut off from old hindi films, since I was engrossed in life’s issues and challenges. Radio channels like vividh bharati and All India Radio (Urdu Service), once my best friends, were a thing of the past that no longer figured in my life. My deep interest in film songs occasionally brought me to Youtube to find some song or the other which came to mind.
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