Archive for 2012
Maut aayegi maut aani hai
Posted on: June 29, 2012
We in this blog discuss songs that are typically several decades old. And the regulars of this blog tend to be people who are mature and well adjusted in their lives. While discussing the songs, we also tend to discuss our experiences about those songs and also our experiences about life in general.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Baarood’ from 1960 is a relatively better known film, probably that being a Sheikh Mukhtar film, it does get some attention. The film is a social drama produced under the banner of Super Pictures, Bombay and is produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The main star cast is Sheikh Mukhtar, Kumkum, Honey Irani, Sudhir, Veena, Heeralal, Husnbano, Mukri, Uma Dutt, Babu Rajey, Tuntun, Shakeel Nomaani, Suresh, Mantobai, Baby Ratan, Fazloo, Balaram, Andaleep.
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Suno suno ban ke praani
Posted on: June 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my childhood and younger days, I had heard some songs and in case of a few of them I remembered only the tunes. I had no idea whether they belonged to films or were non-film songs.
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Gaawo gaawo ae mere saadhu
Posted on: June 29, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Enjoying the film music now in its ninth decade, we are mostly familiar with all the variations, adaptations, improvisations, and of course even outright copying of music items across films, across music directors and across time. A very interesting adaptation / variation to the Hindi film song is a parody. A well known song from an earlier film is reused in a new film, generally keeping intact the melody and the tune, but the words are changed for a comical effect, mostly. We are all familiar with parodies, and I am sure we can surely list a few at the drop of a hat.
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Chalo na gori machal machal ke
Posted on: June 28, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
And so, yesterday as I was conversing back and forth with Harish ji Raghuvanshi (resident of Surat, compiler of the ‘Mukesh Geet Kosh’) regarding information on the lyricist SH Behari, we started to discuss the general topic of hugely talented lyricists that spent a very small time in the industry, contributed a small number of very wonderful songs and then somehow did not work anymore for Hindi films. Their filmi careers are lost under obscurity.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ek gaana hai, kareeb chaalis saal puraana – “Chain Se Humko Kabhi, Aap Ne Jeene Ne Diyaa” . From the film ‘Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye’. And the year is 1973. Yes getting to be about 40 years ago. But listening to this song, even today – the sound, the feelings, and the words – all appear to be so young and so fresh. And the lyricist – composer pair is SH Behari and OP Nayyar. A partnership that started in the mid 50s, and flowered exceptionally in the decade of 60s to give so many memorable songs one after another.
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“First Love”(1961) was a Natraj production movie. It was directed by Ved Mohan. The movie had Mehmood, Preetibala, Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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Dil se hain shehzaade ham
Posted on: June 28, 2012
When one thinks of a song sung by Hemant Kumar, one generally imagines the song to be a romantic song or a serious one. It is difficult to imagine Hemant Kumar singing a tapori song.
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Bade achche lagte hain
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Baalika Badhu” (1976) which means “Child Bride” was a remake of a Bangla movie of the same name which was made in 1950s and where Mausami Chatterji had played the title role. Mausami Chatterji, after looking at Rajni Sharma felt that Rajni Sharma looked much more immature (and thus more suitable) for the role of the child bride.
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Bechaara dil kyaa kare
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Khushboo” (1975) was based on a Bangla story namely “Panditmoshai” written by Sharat Chandra Chatterji. The movie was a Tirupati pictures combine presentation. It was produced by Prasann Kapoor, who if I remember correctly was the brother of Jeetendra.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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