Archive for November 2012
Kachhu samajh nahin aaye
Posted on: November 28, 2012
“Aasmaan” (1952) was produced and directed by Dalsukh M Pancholi. The movie had Nasir Khan, Shyama, Veera, Badri Prasad,Anwar, David Abraham, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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Zauq e barbaadi hai mujhko
Posted on: November 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Connoisseurs of vintage Hindi film songs while listening to songs like jaao jaao ae mere sadhjo raho guru ke sang and baba man ki aankhen khol, would identify these songs with K C Dey without blinking their eye lids. The name K C Dey and kirtan songs (devotional and philosophical songs) are inseparable. Since he was blind, this genre of songs suited him best when he was also acting and singing in the films. Whenever I listened to his filmy songs, I felt that his voice quality suited well for thumri and ghazals. Little did I know at that time that he was also an accomplished Hindustani classical and bhajan singer with more than one hundred NFS in Hindi, Urdu and Bengali to his credit. I also find from his discography that he had recorded at least four Gujarati devotional songs in 1942.
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Meri jhilmil jhilmil bindiya
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Mama Bhanja” (1977), not to be confused with Manmohan Desai directed “Chacha Bhatija” (1977), was directed by Naresh Kumar. The movie had real life Chacha bhatija (Shammi Kapoor and Randhir Kapoor ) playing Mama and Bhanja respectively. The movie also had Parveen Babi, Asha Sachdev, Nadira, Jagdish Raj, Lalita Pawar, Ram Mohan etc in it.
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Lo apna jahaan duniyaa waalon
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Dooj Ka Chaand” (1964) was a Filmasia Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Bharat Bhushan, Raj Kumar, Chandrashekhar, Pritibala, B. Saroja Devi, Ratna, Ullhas, Agha, Sulochana, Azra, Prabhat Kumar, Iftekhar, Murad etc in it.
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Arre waah mere maalik
Posted on: November 27, 2012
After discussing the sixth song of “Half Ticket” (1962), I thought that all the songs of this movie were covered. I did not receive the expected “Yippee” comment from Pradeep Raghunathan though which he makes every time such a thing happens. He informed me that one song from this movie was still missing.
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“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a B R Films production. It was produced and directed by B R Chopra. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Shreenath, Yashodhara Katju, Jeevan etc in it.
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Unhen tu bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Naya Ghar” (1953) was a Kashyap Productions movie. It was produced and directed by D D Kashyap. The movie had Shekhar, Geeta Bali, Begum Para, Jagdev, Leela Chitnis, Ratan Kumar, Shailendra etc in it.
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Aa pardesi baalma morey angnaa
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Chham Chhama Chham” (1952) was a Mohan Pictures Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Radha Krishnan, Rehana, Pran, Mohana etc in it.
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“Aasmaan” (1952) was a Dalsukh M Pancholi production movie. This movie had Nasir Khan, Shyama, Veera, Badri Prasad,Anwar, David Abraham, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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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.
I had no much idea about Jahanara Kajjan except that I was aware of a couple of her classical raag based songs in the film ‘Bharathari’ (1944). Very recently, I came across one more of her song ‘tumre darshan ka nainaa taras gaye ho’ from the film PRARTHANAA (1943). I heard this song for the first time and instantly liked it. The song is rendered in dadra style (crisp version of thumri ) based on raag Gaur-Malhar but with typical filmy musical orchestration of early 40s.
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