Archive for April 2012
When I was in my formative years, R D Burman ruled the roost as a music director and I, alongwith the rest of India was mad about his music. It turns out that he has a following not only among those who lived during his era, but also among those who were born after R D Burman’s era.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The saga of Hindi films will never be complete without the discussion of the “formula” that used to be, and continues to be, followed by the production banners. More often than not, once a film became a hit, and brought profits for the producers, generally there used to be a spate of new productions trying to imitate the theme, the storyline, and the main attractive ingredients of that successful film, in an effort to duplicate that success. Over a period of time, such duplications would get refined into a list of specific ingredients that should be part of a film production strategy. Besides the components of the storyline, and type of characters and the list of events that should form part of the film, a main item of consideration was the type of music and songs that a film should contain.
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Oy ham hain tere deewaane
Posted on: April 8, 2012
“Modern Girl”(1961) was a Rainbow movies production. It was directed by R Bhattacharya. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Sayeeda Khan, Madan Puri, Smriti Biswas, Iftikhar, Tuntun, Helen, Johnny Walker, Nalini Chonkar etc in it.
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Dil thhaam chaley ham aaj kidhar
Posted on: April 8, 2012
“Love in Simla” (1960) was Joy Mukherji’s home production and it was the debut movie for Joy Mukherji as well as Sadhana. And what a smashing debut it was for both !
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When one talks of a movie called “Rangeela” then most people are reminded of the Aamir Khan and Urmila Matondkar movie of 1995. But it turns out that there was another movie of the same name which was released as far back as in 1953.
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Darr laage garje badarwa
Posted on: April 8, 2012
“Ram Rajya” (1967) was a Shri Prakash Pictures production. It was directed by Vijay Bhatt. Starcast of the movie had Badri Prasad, Bhavna, Kumar Sen, Bina Rai, Anil Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Ved Puri, Manjari, Snehlata, Aruna Rai, Jay, Vijay etc in it.
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Reshmi salwaar kurta jaali kaa
Posted on: April 7, 2012
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Here is one more song of the popular unofficial genre viz “how come this song was not posted earlier” 🙂 . During my younger days I was only into listening current songs and any song created before 1968 was old song for me. then one fine day in mid 1970s I decided to become mature, viz. become interested in old songs. It was then that I learnt about O P Nayyar. The fact that he made his career without using the voice of Lata voice impressed me a lot. Then I heard O P Nayyar compositions from movies like “CID”(1956), “Naya Daur”(1957) etc.
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Till one year ago, this blog was largely a one man show. But with time, music lovers joined in and became regulars, and a few regulars became contributors too. With time, some of these contributors began to achieve their own landmarks in the blog, viz. century of contributions etc.
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Ham to lut gaye tere pyaar mein
Posted on: April 7, 2012
“Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a production of Pradeep Kumar and his brother under their banner viz Deep and Sandeep Production. Pradeep Kumar directed the movie and the starcast included names viz. Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Rehman, Shashikala, B. Nandi, Nazir Hussain, Tuntun etc.
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O bedardi kyun tadpaaye
Posted on: April 7, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The world of Hindi Classical Music has produced so many maestros both in vocal and in instrumental category. We have different maestros of different gharanas in the field of vocal music and same is the case in different instrument categories too. In the field of string instuments, we have sitar, veena, sarangi, sarod, and a few more. When we take the name or even think of sitar, the first name that comes to our mind is Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose real name is Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury.
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