Archive for October 2012
Suniyo jee araj mhaaro
Posted on: October 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Having stayed in Mumbai for over 60 years, I have a fair knowledge of Marathi but not as good as Hindi and English being my medium of instructions in school and college days respectively. In my younger days, I used to often listen to some non-filmy Marathi songs on the radio as also during some public functions like Ganesh festival. Of these, two Marathi songs which created interest in me to listen to more Marathi songs were “mee dolkar dolkar dolkar dariya cha raaja” ( I am a boatman, the king of sea) sung by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar and “ne majsi ne matrabhumi laa, sagara praan talmal laa” (O sea, take me back to my motherland. My heart aches for her) sung by all the five Mangeshkars – Lata, Asha, Usha, Meena and Hridaynath. Both these songs were composed by Hridaynath Mangeshkar probably in the late 60s or early 70s. These two songs were my first introduction to Hridaynath Mangeshkar.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
By the time 1990s came along Hindi movies were getting loud, the heros were mannerless, ill-bred uncouth fellows. Sadak Chhap Romeos with a heart of gold, diamonds in the rough who start out rather badly, but by the end, redeem themselves by doing the right thing.
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Ae jaane bahaaraan jaan e karam
Posted on: October 26, 2012
“Jahaan Pyaar Miley” (1969) was an L R T Productions movie, where L R T stood for Lekh Raj Tandon, who produced as well as directed this movie. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Helen, Badri Prasad, Zeb Rehman, Iftekhar, Naaz, Anjali Kadam, Nazir Hussain, Nadira, Kamal Kapoor, Jeevan, Sulochana, Narendranath, Pinchoo Kapoor etc in it.
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Dil ae dil bahaaron se mil
Posted on: October 26, 2012
“Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) was a Parbat Films Production. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Shyam Dhawan and directed by Bhappi Sonie. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Dhumal, David, Bela Bose, Rashid Khan, Krishan Dhawan, Bir Sakhuja, Iqbal Singh, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Radhika, Sulochna, Rita Roy, Keval Kapoor, Mohan Choti etc in it.
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Kaahe akela dolat baadal
Posted on: October 26, 2012
In olden days, professions like “Gramophone Singer”, “Station Master”, “Taxi Driver”,”Trolly Driver” etc were quite coveted ones. We in fact have Hindi movies with such titles. So far we have discussed songs from “Station Master” (1942), “Taxi Driver” (1954) and “Trolly Driver” (1958) in the blog. Here is a song from “Gramophone Singer” (1938).
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Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin
Posted on: October 25, 2012
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.
Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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Aaj ki raat sajan mann chaahe
Posted on: October 25, 2012
Today (25 october) is the birthday of Aparna Sen. She acted in just a few Hindi movies, but she went on to become a legendary actress in Bangla movies.
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“Dooj Ka Chaand”(1964) was a Filmasia Production movie. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Raj Kumar, Bharat Bhushan,Pritibala, B. Saroja Devi, Ratna, Ullhas,Agha, Sulochana, Azra, Prabhat Kumar, Iftekhar, Chandrashekhar, Murad etc in it.
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