Archive for 2012
Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
ALBELAA (1951) was a musical blockbuster produced and directed by Master Bhagwan. In my childhood days, I had quite often heard ‘shaam dhale khidki tale tum seeti bajaanaa chhod do’ but none of the other songs from the film. I saw this film for the first time on Doordarshan in early 80s. Thereafter, I must have seen this movie a couple of times after I bought VCD of this film last year. This was Bhagwan’s first venture for a big budget film after producing and directing some low budget C grade films. The film was the third highest box office grosser of 1951 ranking after ‘Aawaraa’ and ‘Baazi’. It was an amazing feat for Bhagwan to achieve a box office success with this film despite having a run of the mill story ( probably based on his own life), a lacklustre direction and a non-conventional lead actor like him. The credit goes to the film’s foot tapping songs which became a craze those days and are still popular with the new generation as well.
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Kaisa ujda chaman khushi ka
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A very remarkable song indeed. Not just for the words and music, but the way the music is arranged, and the manner in which it has been rendered. The special feature of remark-ability can either be told, or can be perceived by listening to the song itself. Maybe some of the readers would pause reading this write up, listen to the song and then come back to read the rest of it. And possibly, some readers can recognize what is special about this song.
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Mere soone jeewan ka aasraa hai tu
Posted on: March 22, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Century songs for the blog | Feelings of heart | lullaby | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Lyrics contributor century song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1966 | Theme song | Title song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This blog, which began as a one man show has by now become a multiple contributor bandwagon of likeminded music lovers. With time, we now have several contributors who have begun to achieve their own landmarks of century and multiple century marks.
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Yahaan main ajnabi hoon
Posted on: March 22, 2012
Here is a song that belongs to the category of “how come this song was not posted earlier”. My excuse remains the same standard one-I thought that this song was already discussed.
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“Bambai Ka Chor” (1962) was a New Original Pictures presentation. It was directed by S D Narag. Starcast of the movie included names like Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Helen, Pratima Devi, Honey Irani, Amar, Krishna Kumari, Iftekhar etc.
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Baaten kahin aur banaao
Posted on: March 22, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) is a forgotten movie with music that deserves to be much better known among music lovers. Not much was known about this movie, but now Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our in house expert has provided us with all the details that we may like to know about this movie.
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Raahi chal sambhal sambhal ke
Posted on: March 22, 2012
“Detective” (1958) was an Amiya Chitra Presentation. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Mala Sinha, Krishnakant, Dhumal, Johnny Walker, K. N. Singh etc.
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- In: "Aankh" song | Actor-Singer song | Ashok Kumar solo | Ashok Kumar songs | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Multiple version song | Naseem Banu Solo Songs | Naseem Banu Songs | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Rare song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1945 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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.
About a month back, I stumbled upon a song ‘aankhen to huyi band magar dard jagaa re’ from the film BEGUM (1945) sung by Ashok Kumar. Until then, I had neither heard of this song nor of the film which had Ashok Kumar and Naseem Bano in the lead roles. I liked the song so much that I must have listened to it umpteen times. The song is written by Gopal Singh Nepali and set to music by Hari Prasanna Das (H P Das) whose name also I heard for the first time. From the Indian Film Trade Data website, I observed that H P Das had given music to 10 Hindi films between 1935 and 1948 including 2-3 films jointly with Manna Dey.
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Hari din to beeta raat huyee
Posted on: March 21, 2012
During the discussion on Rajkumari on the occasion of her death anniversary, it was mentioned that she sang her last song as a playback singer in “Kitaab”(1977).
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Ae mere dil jo chal diye
Posted on: March 21, 2012
Most music lovers are passive music lovers in the sense that they listen to songs that are on the air/TV etc. Then there are active music lovers who like certain songs and they actively seek those songs to listen to.
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