Archive for May 2012
Hauley hauley hawaayen doley
Posted on: May 5, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The tribulations of life keep jumping from one whirlwind to another. Here is a bit of information that I should have shared on the blog some time back. So there is this loosely knit group of music lovers in Delhi, and they are planning a year long stint of programs to celebrate the 100th year of Indian Cinema.
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Phir bhi hai dil beqaraar
Posted on: May 4, 2012
In 1950s and 1960s, there were a few movies whose titles resembled the names of girls, and a few such titles happened to be the names of well known actresses of those days too. For instance, there were movie titles like “Sadhana” (1958), “Raagini” (1958), “Kalpana”(1960) etc.
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Kal jalega chaand saari raat
Posted on: May 4, 2012
“Nirmohi”(1952) is an obscure movie by now. From the little information available about this movie, one can see that the movie was produced by Sheetal M and directed by Baij Sharma. The movie had Nutan, Sajjan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Chaman Puri, Neeru, Amarnath, C. L. Kavish etc in it.
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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.
Recently,I came across an audio clip of a film FOR LADIES ONLY (1951). This film was also known by the name ‘TITLI’. I had never heard of this film. A search in the Indian Film Trade website revealed that the film was produced under the banner of Jaimini Dewan Productions ( Jaimini was the brother of Karan Dewan) and directed by Vedi. The cast included Satish, Roopa Verman, Kuldeep Kaur, Sadhana Bose, Ramnath. As per the same website, there were three lyricists for the film – Sahrai, Kaif and Sahir Ludhianvi. Another website gives the names of six lyricist – Sharma, Vashisht,Prakash, Kaif, Sahrai and Sohanlal Sahir ( and not Sahir Ludhianvi). Vinod (Eric Robert) was the music director for the film.
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Kisi ki patli qamar lachakti
Posted on: May 3, 2012
“Inspector” seems to be a popular title in Hindi movies of 1950s and later. One movie of this name was produced in 1956 and another movie of the same title was released in 1970. Both these movies ended up becoming obscure quickly enough.
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“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a movie which was adapted from Phanishwar Nath “Renu”‘s Hindi novel called “Maare Gaye Gulfaam”. I have neither seen the movie nor read the novel, but Santosh Ojha, a contributor to this blog has given a nice summary of this novel in his blog . Reading this summary, I realised what a moving tale this novel and this movie was. Now I can understand why Shailendra was so heartbroken on finding his dream project failing at the box office. The fact that Indian movie audience were not mature enough and sensitive enough to appreciate a movie like this was quite unfortunate indeed.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ramlal Chaudhary, known as a Ramlal in hindi film industry was a composer who is famous for composing songs of two films, Sehra-63 and Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne-64. Both were produced and directed by V Shantaram.
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Chaahe kitna mujhe tum bulaaoge
Posted on: May 3, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was in Kohima (Nagaland) during the first week of December last year to see the week long annual Hornbill Festival. The festival showcases the rich tribal traditions and culture of Nagaland including folk dances, music, sports etc. One day of the festival was reserved for the folk dancers and musicians of all the north-eastern states. My main interest was photography during the festival events and also capturing the tribal village life in the real sense by visiting a nearby Naga village. But some of the dances and musical performances became so rhythmic and foot tapping that I was completely engrossed watching them and in the process I missed taking pictures of some of those events. Surely, some of the dance and musical performances would have been a source of inspiration for Bollywood music directors and choreographers. I also observed that the younger generation In Kohima was very much into music. There are many rock music bands in Kohima. Even in a tribal village, it was a common sight to see young boys and girls moving with guitars.
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Mere pyaar mein tujhe kyaa milaa
Posted on: May 2, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A seashore with sand beaches and sun shine with some outcroppings of rocks and trees of palms or coconut is a dream destination for a holiday. And if the climate is moderate and not too hot, one can just keep looking at the blue gold and green black hues and not bother to disturb anything, not even the waves.
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