Archive for August 2012
Arre nazar lage na saathiyon
Posted on: August 4, 2012
The first solo song that Kishore Kumar sang in his playback career was for Dev Anand in the movie “Ziddi” (1948) under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Then S D Burman, his mentor used his good offices to get Kishore Kumar to give plaback for Raj Kapoor in “Pyaar” (1950). But from that time onwards, Kishore Kumar sang for himself or for Dev Anand, in case it was a Dev Anand movie with S D Burman’s music direction. I can think of one more exception during 1950s though where Kishore Kumar sang for someone other than himself or Dev Anand. It was the iconic song Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai(Pahli taarikh) (1954) which was picturised on Raja Nene.
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Na aaj thha na kal thhaa
Posted on: August 4, 2012
“Pati Patni Aur Woh” (1978) was a B R Chopra production. It was produced and directed by B R Chopra. The movie was a light hearted adult comedy in the sense that it depicted the tale of a man carrying on an affair with his female secretary in office behind the back of his homely wife.
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Tum bhi chalo ham bhi chalen
Posted on: August 4, 2012
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Kishore Kumar was around in the Hindi movie playback scene for two decades from 1948 to 1968 but all these while he was on the fringes. But a combination of many circumstances, that are well chronicled, ensured that changes of epic proportions took place in the Hindi movies schemes of things in late 1960s. Whe the commotion was over and things settled down, the old order had changed giving way to the new. The old timers (heroes, singers, music directors) suddenly found themselves upstaged and evicted from the scene in the new order.
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Jin raaton ki bhor nahin hai
Posted on: August 4, 2012
As a human being, Kishore Kumar was quite a study in contrast. He was mainly known by his ability to bring a smile, if not whole hearted laughter in people’s mind. His joie de vivre was infectious with his fellow artists. If Kishore Kumar acted opposite actresses now known for playing tragedy roles (viz Nutan and Meena Kumari), then you can bet that the resultant movie would be a light hearted comedy, and not a serious melancholic stuff.
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Wo thhi ham thhe ham thhe wo thhi
Posted on: August 4, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
On the occasion of Kishore Kumar’s birth anniversary on August 4th, the wheel of time(kalchakra) takes me back to my teens when I used to listen to Radio Ceylon’s programme on old Hindi film songs. On the first day of every month, the first song that was played on this programme was din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai from the film ‘Pahli Taarikh’ (1954). That was the time when I came to know about Kishore Kumar as a singer. It was a revelation to me later from the film ‘New Delhi’ (1956) that he was not only a singer but an actor also. With his many subsequent films in 50s and early 60s, I had taken it for granted that he was a comedian who sang mostly fun songs and that too for himself.
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Tera husn maana badi cheez hai
Posted on: August 3, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is Poet Shakeel Badayuni’s birth anniversary. I came to know about it just now, as it happens in almost all anniversaries that are celebrated in the blog. Incidentally I had written down the lyrics of this unused song from the film ‘Aan”, yesterday only. When I send two /three song writeups to Atul ji , it is better to give him breathing space. So instinctively, I try to hold on and not send him any more till he posts these.
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Anil Biswas, one of the pioneers of Hindi movie music once opined that Sajjad Hussain and Jaidev were the most talented music directors in his opinion. Coming from Anil Biswas, it was high praise indeed.
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Piya ko milan kaise hoye ree
Posted on: August 3, 2012
“Andolan” (1975) was a J K Arts Production movie. It was produced by Saroj Mittal and Uma Shankar. The movie was directed by Lekh Tandan. The movie had Neetu Singh, Rakesh Pandey, Naazneen, Pinchoo Kapoor, Urmila Bhatt, Raj Kumar(the lesser known one), Kunwar Ajit, Pratap Sharma, Uma Shanker, Tiwari, Vishw Mehra, Durrani, Parvez, Shrikant,
Balram Singh, Deepak, Shantanu Bhattacharjee, Aparna Chaudhary, Murari, Master Rajesh etc.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is another song from the film “Laila Majnu”. This is also a Lata-Rafi duet, composed by Madan Mohan. Lyrcist is Saahir Ludhianvi. This must be the most popular song from the film. And for once the songs composed by Madan Mohan were more to the tastes of the masses rather than the classes. This may have been in accordance with the theme and setting of the film, this being a period film, if not historical. Even if this is the sixth song to appear in the blog, the songs of the film are not yet done. There are three more songs that remain to be discussed.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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