Archive for October 2012
Seeing that this blog has by now notched up over 6800 songs, it is natural that we tend to touch a few blog related milestones quite frequently.
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Roti roti roti
Posted on: October 15, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Lesser known singers- Singer 10 (Ashraf Khan)
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This is the 10th and the last of the series on “Less known singers series”.
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Na chaand ho na suraj ho
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Jaadugar Daaku” (1962) was a Joy Films production. It was directed by Chandrakant Desai. The movie had Ajit, Helen, Madhumati, Jabeen Jalil, Bela Bose, Tiwari, Jairaj, Maruti, Samson, Tuntun etc in it.
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Main hoon Mr John
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Naach Ghar” (1959) was a Kwality Pictures Production. It was directed by R S Tara. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Anoop Kumar, Kamala Laxman, Helen, Shobha Khote, Iftekhar, Gopi Krishna etc in it. Not much is known about this movie.
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“Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) has as many as eight songs in it. Seven of these songs have already been discussed.
Here is the eighth and final song from the movie.
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Kisne chheda man ka taar
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Tohfa”(1947) was a Seth Brothers Production. It was directed by Agha Hashra Kashmiri. The movie had Rehman, Veera , Nawaab etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Lesser known singers- Singer 9 (Utpala Sen)
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BANGLA is a very sweet language. Many times I wonder whether Bengali sweets are sweeter or the Bangla language. I have never tried to answer this question myself, because I liked both.
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Babu samjho ishaare horn pukaare
Posted on: October 13, 2012
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Today (13 october) is the birth anniverasry of Ashok Kumar as well as the death anniversary of Kishore Kumar. After Kishore Kumar’s death on this day 25 years ago, Ashok Kumar stopped celebrating his birthday, naturally. The two brothers, alongwith their third brother Anup Kumar were quite close to each other and we were privileged to see the three brothers together in all the movies that were produced by Kishore Kumar.
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Mohe le chal balam mele mein
Posted on: October 13, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Lesser known singers- Singer 8 (Vatsala Kumthekar)
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Lord Byron had said,” Time is a great leveller”.
To paraphrase Lord Byron, Hindi film industry is a great leveller. This industry has taken some people from Rags to Riches and some others from Riches to Rags !
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Nazron ki duniya aabaad kar de
Posted on: October 13, 2012
“Najma” (1943) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Veena, Sitara Devi, Yakub, Murad, M Kumar etc in it.
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