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Archive for December 2012


This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The 1965 film ‘Johar Mehmood in Goa’ is a veritable treasure house of wonderful songs and music. A popular hit in its own time, this film still continues to be known for the songs. Of the total of eight songs, four song are already represented on this blog. This duet here now becomes the fifth song from this film to make it here.
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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.

Recently, I came across a non-filmy song on the internet, sung by Talat Mehmood which happened to be his first disc cut in 1941 for HMV. The mukhda of the song was

sab din ek samaan nahin thha
ban jaaunga kyaa se kyaa main
iskaa to kuchh dhyaan nahin thha

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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

‘Shabistaan’ (1951) – the film that saw the sensational and tragic end of a very young and handsome star, who had broken into the popular imagination of the cinegoers just two or three years earlier. Called by some as the Eroll Flynn of Hindi cinema, Shyam was all of 31 years old when he died following the injuries sustained in a fall from horseback while shooting for this film. Historians have speculated that the course of Hindi cinema in the 1950s would have been very different, had this accident not happened.
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“Ashanti” (1982) was produced and directed by Umesh Mehra. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mithun Chakraborty, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi,Amrish Puri, Shabana Azmi etc.

Today (29 december 2012) is the 70th birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna. On this occasion, here is a song from “Ashanti” (1982).
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“Red Rose” (1980) was a Gaurav Arts Production. It was produced by M P Jain and Ravi Kumar and directed by Bharati Raja. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Poonam Dhillon, Roopesh Kumar, Om Shivpuri,Sateyen Kappoo, Shammi, Keshto Mukherjee, Shashi Kiran, Ram .P.Sethi, Master Mayoor, Ritu Kamal, Snehalata,Jezbel, Umesh Sharma, Madhu Patel, Anita, Anjana, Rajani, Shankar Singh, Swaraj Gupta, Sardar, Janak Raj, Munni, Baby Gowri, Raja Ram, Krishna Moorthy, Azhar, Anand Girdhar, Aruna Irani, Padmini Kapila, Manmauji etc in it.
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Today (29 december 2012) is Rajesh Khanna’s 70th birth anniversary. It is the first year in which Rajesh Khanna is no longer physically with us. But the memory of Rajesh Khanna will remain with us for a long time. People of my generation were just in the right age bracket to be out and out Rajesh Khanna fans. The fan following that Rajesh Khanna enjoyed during his heydays was unbelievable. The population of India has doubled from the time when Rajesh Khanna was at his peak, but I can say that no subsequent actor has come anywhere close to him in fan following.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

This film has lots and lots of songs, as I am discovering for last few days. First the genuine qawwali which is a matter of interest to S. D. Burman’s fans. I have been wondering for some months if S. D. Burman ever composed a qawwali. Than a qawwali from ‘Dr. Vidya’ was posted a few days back. Than ‘bluefire ji’ drew my attention to this qawwali from the film “Benazir’. This is written by Shakeel Badayuni and singers are Mubarak Begum and Asha Bhosle. Since then I have seen many songs of this film which have a lot of playback singers. The list of female singers includes Lata, Usha, Suman Kalyanpure apart from Mubarak Begum and Asha. Among male singers I have been able to find only Rafi’s songs. I do not know if there is any other song featuring male singers. We shall see at least a couple of wonderful Lata solos on Meena Kumari, in the coming days. The songs are a treat to ears.
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“Johar Mehmood in Hongkong” (1971) was produced by K Z Seth and Madan Chopra and directed by S A Akbar. The movie had I S Johar, Mehmood, Sonia Sahni, Kamal Kapoor, Tuntun, Manorama, Agha, Mukri, Polson, Pran, Madhumati, Mehmood Junior, Raj Kishore, Murad, Tiwari, Aruna Irani, Haroon etc in it.
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“Singapore” (1960) was an Eagle Films Production movie. It was produced by F C Mehra and directed by Shakti Samanta. the movie had Shammi Kapoor, Padmini, Maria Menado, Shashikala, K. N. Singh, Madan Puri, Helen, Agha, Rajan Kapoor, Lilian, Ameer, Balaram, Mohan Berodia, Dwarka Divecha, Gopal, Moosa, Gautam Mukherjee, Radhakrishan, Shankar etc in it.
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