Archive for August 2012
“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. This mythological movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S. N. Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Chalo ab kehna maan jaao
Posted on: August 13, 2012
I have mentioned it in the past that Rafi and Geeta Dutt have sung about 155 duets together and the majority of these duets are not under O P Nayyar or S D Burman’s music direction, but under the baton of Chitragupta.
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Ek do teen chaar
Posted on: August 13, 2012
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 a duet song ‘ek do teen chaar’ sung by Asha Bhonsle and Kishore Kumar from the film MUQADDAR(1950). I remember this film in which the lead actor Nalini Jaywant had sung three songs in her own voice, one of which has already been discussed in this blog.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) is a treasure of great songs. Like most music lovers, I was only aware of the just the few songs from this movie that were the most popular ones. But subsuquently, I have been discovering the remaining songs of this movie, mainly because the lyrics of the remaining songs from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) have been sent to me by Atif M. Yesterday I discussed an untypical composition from this movie which was a soft song, which sounded like a western music based composition. And here is a lovely folk music based composition from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) which has bowled me over at the very first listening.
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Roothh na jaana tumse kahoon to
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“1942 A Love Story” (1993) was a movie which was produced by Vidu Vinod Chopra and directed by Vidu Vinod Chopra. The movie, despite its publicity, was no great shakes.
But the music of this movie was quite a revelation. This movie was released a few months after the death of R D Burman. When music lovers heard the music of this movie, they sat up and took notice. Some reviwers even went as far as to state that this was the music ever composed by R D Burman ! I am not one to indulge in such odious comparisons, but I was one of those music lovers who found the music of the movie quite divine. When I went on to watch the movie, I found the movie quite a let down. The movie was supposed to be a period movie on 1942 but all the characters dressed, looked and behaved like people of 1990s.
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“Amir Gharib” (1974) was an Em Kay Films private Ltd production. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Nazima, Premnath, Helen, Ranjeet, Sujeet Kumar, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Chaman Puri, Birbal, Master Ravi, Jr.Mehmood, Bunty, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begum, Ram mohan, Dulari, Krishnakant, V.Gopal, Tuntun, Keshav Rana, Kamal Deep, Jerry, Rajan Kapoor, Moolchand, Ram Avtaar, Sajan, Kuljeet, Sopariwala etc in it.
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Main tooti huyi ek naiyya hoon
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“Aadmi” (1968) was a S V Productions movie. It was directed by A Bhim Singh. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Simi Garewal, Sulochana, Ullhas, Mohan Choti, Agha etc in it.
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Mud mud hamko dekhta
Posted on: August 12, 2012
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“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures production. It was directed by Rakhan. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Jabeen Jalil, Padmini, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev etc in it.
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Ye taaron bhari raat
Posted on: August 12, 2012
Yesterday Raja got me going on Geeta Dutt-Rafi duets after he sent me some statistics regarding Geeta Dutt songs in general and Geeta Dutt-Rafi duets in particular. According to those details, Geeta Dutt has sung most number of her songs for Chitragupta (about 100 songs). Also, Geeta Dutt has sung 155 duets with Rafi, and most number of these duets (30 numbers) are with Chitragupta, which may come as a surprise for music lovers, who may guess otherwise.
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