Archive for November 2012
“Shehnaayi” (1964), not to be confused with “Shehnaayi” (1947), was a New Oriental Pictures Production. It was directed by S D Narang. This movie had Biswajeet, Rajshree, Johnny Walker, Veena, Chand Usmani, Nirupa Roy, Asit Sen, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis, D. K. Sapru, Parveen Choudhary etc in it.
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Chori chori tori aayi hai Radha
Posted on: November 3, 2012
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hum Hindustani a patriotic film of 1960 had the message of youth turning the nation into a hub of industrial and green revolution. Portraying the two faces of the Indian youth were Sunil Dutt and Joy Mukherjee. The former an upright engineer and the latter a bit misled.
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Hum bechaare pyaar ke maare
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Imagine that you reached someplace where a song is playing, probably on a radio. But unfortunately it seems you have missed almost the entire song. What you hear as you get into listening range is just the last one or two lines playing. The words you hear do not seem to be part of the main song lyrics. And the words you hear do not seem to make a coherent sentence. You may just skip the thought and move on. Or if you are more Hindi-film-music inclined, you would start to wonder what the song was and who would have been the singer of this song, of which you have heard just a snippet.
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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.
A few days back, one of the readers of this blog commented on the song arree hato kaahe ko jhoothhi banaao batiyaan sung by Manna Dey that he is not a versatile singer. Well, the reader has given his view which we respect in line with ‘pasand apni apni khayal apna apna’. Of course, with such a sweeping statement, there were responses by some of the regulars of this blog. A few examples of songs in support of Manna Dey’s singing versatility were also listed. There is no doubt that Manna Dey is a complete singer. His repository of singing encompasses classical, patriotic, romantic, light comedy, ghazal and more. His versatility goes beyond the different genres of songs. Take for instance the variations in his renditions within the genre of romantic songs of expressing love – tera haath haath mein aa gayaa, roop tumhaaraa aankhon se pi loon, tum jo aao to pyaar aa jaaye and some non-filmy songs like ‘ye awaara raatein ye koyi si baatein’ and ‘ nazaaron mein ho tum khayaalon mein ho tum’.
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“Chhoti Behan” (1959) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Rehman, Balraj Sahni, Shyama, Nanda, Sudesh Kumar, Trideep Kumar, Mehmood, Hari Shivdasani, Dhumal, Badri Prasad, Shobha Khote, Veena, Radhakrishen etc in it.
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“Surang” (1953) was a Rajkamal Production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Ulhas, Shashikala, Vinod Kumar, K. Date, Vikas, Sheila Ramani, Chandrashekhar, Joginder etc in it.
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Laga pehli nazar ka teer
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a feloow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Voice of Mukesh #5
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Ah, so now we arrive at the turning point of Mukesh’s fledgling career that made him capture the attention of all concerned, and be launched on to the sky of Hindi films, never to look back. The year is 1945, the film is ‘Pehli Nazar’, and the singer Mukesh – well, it almost did not happen.
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Ho saathiyaa
Posted on: November 1, 2012
“Vidhaata” (1982) was a Trimurty Films Production. It was produced by Gulshan Rai and directed by Subhash Ghai. The movie was a multistarrer, boasting of names like Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Padmini Kolhapure, Amrish Puri, Madan Puri, Suresh Oberoi, Sarika etc in it.
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“Aakraman” (1975) was a title that came as a surprise to me. Those were the days when Hindi movies did not have titles in Textbook Hindi. “Aakraman” is Hindi/ Sanskrit for “Attack”. The tendency for movie makers those days was the use a word like “Hamla” instead of “Aakraman”, even though it was a word of normal usage in Hindi textbooks. That way one needs to give some credit to the makers of this movie that he used a Hindi title for a Hindi movie.
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Hazaaron rang badlega zamaana
Posted on: November 1, 2012
Today (1 november) is the death anniversary of lyricist Tanvir Naqvi (6 february 1919 – 1 november 1972). Born as Syed Khursheed Ali in Lahore,,Tanvir Naqvi namy not be as well as some well known lyricists, but he has penned some well known songs in Hindi movies. He migrated to Pakistan in 1950s and died in Lahore on this date 40 years ago.
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