Archive for December 2012
Dil toota aur armaan lutey
Posted on: December 12, 2012
“Roomaal” (1949) was produced by Varuna Films and directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Rehman, Jairaj, Nargis, Jilloo Maa, Cuckoo, Badri Prasad, Jeevan, Majnu, Mukesh etc in it.
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“Kathputli” (1957) was a Shrirangam Productions movie. It was produced by Amiya Chakravarty and Ajit Kumar Chakravarty. The movie was directed by Amiya Chakravary and Nitin Bose. The reason why there were two producers and directors for this movie was that Amiya Chakravarty died during the making of this movie and therefore the movie had to be completed by other personnel.
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“Kaali Topi Laal Roomaal” (1959) was a Janta Chitra Production movie. It was directed by Tara Harish. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Shakila, K. N. Singh, Agha, Kumkum, Mukri, Naina, Kamal Mehra etc in it.
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“Mulaaqaat” (1947) was a Taj Mahal Pictures Production movie. This movie was directed by Munshi Dil and it had Prem Adib and Naseem Bano in lead roles.
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Ham to man mauji mauji mauji
Posted on: December 11, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The decade of the 1970s was when the significant transition happened in the Hindi film music, as the old order gave way to the new sounds. The number of music directors and singers with grounding in Indian classical music was dwindling, and the musical arrangements and the melodies were getting to be transformed, forever.
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Muskura ke ham ko lootaa aapne
Posted on: December 11, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1960s can be considered as the decade of the duos. Three very prominent music director duos led the way from the front in the field of Hindi film music. I am sure all readers will immediately identify them as S-J, L-P, and K-A (Shankar Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyaarelal, and Kalyan ji Anand ji). Stories are rumored on how at times manipulations happened to create a
monopoly. But it can also not be discounted that these duos created some of the finest film songs of their times.
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Yoon na dekho hamen baar baar
Posted on: December 11, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A Shammi Kapoor song is always the quintessential Shammi Kapoor song. With very little apparent effort and with minimum movements, the amount of expression and energy that this powerhouse actor is able to pack into the edifice of a single song, it is simply amazing. The tiny twitches of the neck, the small movements of the fingers and the hands, the rolling and shifting eyes – small signals that are able to communicate a whole nine yard story.
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“Bandi” (1957) was a Shree Raj pictures production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Bina Rai, Kishore Kumar, Anoop Kumar, Nanda, Shyama, Kanhaiyalal, Kammo, Banerjee, Misra, Krishnakant etc in it.
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Baakad bam bam baaje damroo
Posted on: December 11, 2012
“Kathputli” (1957) was a Shrirangam Productions movie. It was produced by Amiya Chakravarty and Ajit Kumar Chakravarty. the movie was directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Filmistan’s Durgesh Nandini (1956) was an adaptation of the first ever Bengali novel Durgeshnondini. Published in 1865, it was written by none other than Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, immortalized as the composer of India’s national songVande Mataram.
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