Archive for 2012
Wafa jinse ki bewafa ho gaye
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Pyaar Ka Saagar” (1961) was a Filmrays Production. It was directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti, Malika, O. P. Ralhan, Leela Mishra, Jagdish Raj etc in it.
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Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Laila Majnu” was the debut film for Ranjeeta. For a number of year after I saw “Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” she was my favorite. I made it a point to see all her films, even those obscure movies with Mithun Chakravarty and music by Bappi Lahiri. I saw her films right upto “Rajput” (1981). Than she sort of dropped out of scene. There may have been a few more films, but I dont know. I dont remember how, but ” Ankhiyon ke jharoke se” I might have seen on T. V. only. ‘Rajput’ we had all seen in the theatre. That was a time when Amitabh Bachchan was in full flow. We would see all his films, not as soon as they released, but it was usually after the school exams were over and on the day of the last paper or the weekend. My father would book the tickets in advance. “Do aur Do paanch” onwards all films of Amitabh Bachhan were a must watch for all of us. They usually had a long run a theatre, unlike what happens now. If you want to see a movie in the theatre you have to do it within a few weeks. If dont manage to, then it will be gone from all the nearby movie halls.
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Kasam Khuda ki jo kuchh kahoongaa
Posted on: April 19, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently I wrote up a 1970s song here and today I’m presenting another 1970s song.
I know that by the standards of this blog, the 1970s is a fairly recent decade. Most of the songs here are from an earlier period – and I love this because it gives me an opportunity to listen to, and learn about, so many forgotten gems of an earlier era. I will never forget the thrill I got when I heard “halla gulla lai la (Dholak – 1951)” for the first time – it has since become one of my FAVOURITE songs! Actually I’d always been interested in old songs but thanks to the internet and this blog, my interest has not only been encouraged, it has also been sharpened in the last few years.
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Aankhon ko meri tum apne
Posted on: April 19, 2012
“Ladka Ladki”(1966) was a Bright Films Production. It was directed by Som Haksar. This movie had Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Sujit Kumar, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Bhagwan, Raj Mehra, Tuntun, Randhir, Leela Misra,Ravikant, Johnny Whisky, Kesri, Krishna Duggal, Gulshan Banwra, Jagadish Bhalla, Aasi, Jerry, Abubakar, Nazir Kashmiri, ShamLaal, DeenDayal etc in it.
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“Pyaar Ka Bandhan” (1963) was an N S Films Production. It was produced and directed by Naresh Saigal. The movie had Raaj Kumar, Nishi, Kumari Naaz, Dhumal, Indira Bansal, Helen, Johnny Walker, Mahendra, Jagdish Raj, Raju, Radheshyam, Sudesh Kumar, C. S. Aasie, Hari Mehta, Munshi Munakka, Pratima Devi, Kewal Kumar etc in it.
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I had neither heard this song nor the name of the movie this song is from. Name of the movie is “Road No 303” (1960). YT, whose information is always required to be taken with a pinch of salt, mentions the year as 1963. This B grade movie was a Mahesh Pictures production and it was directed by Dharmesh Kumar. The movie had Mehmood, Shubha Khote,Bhagwan, Helen, Tiwari, K. N. Singh,etc in it. I found that the year of release of this song is variously shown as 1959, 1960 and 1963.
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Jhuka lo badey badey naina
Posted on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I am writing again today to document another very important interaction; an interaction that has been a dream for me for many months now. I am in San Diego today, and the local time is 2.00 am. And I am writing this post from the residence of Shri Surjit Singh ji. I am sure friends on this blog would be familiar with his name, in context of Hindi films and film music. He is a diehard fan of this music, and has been playing a major role in raising awareness about it, collecting rare materials and making them available on the internet. His web site is at here , and I recommend friends and readers on this blog to visit this and find out more about him.
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Tu laali hai sawerewaali
Posted on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One of the advantages of living through a period (as opposed to reading or hearing about it second-hand) is that you have your own experiences of it that nothing else can quite substitute for. Of course, events may be recorded very accurately for posterity so that future generations get an idea of the past. But it is still not the same thing.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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