Archive for 2012
This song is not one that too many people may have heard before. Those who hear this song for the first time will immediately exclaim that the song has the same tune as Ho leke pahla pahla pyaar (CID) . As it is, the composer is the same for both the songs, but as for being the original, this song is the original and the better known song from CID is the inspired song.
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“Maai Baap” (1957) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names viz Shyama, Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Nazir Hussain, Raj Mehra, S. N. Banerjee, Johnny Walker etc.
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Kenya Uganda Tangenika
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Hongkong”(1962) was produced and directed by Paachi. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen, Lily, Leo, Bhalla, Baburao, Kitty, King Kong, Kundan, Om Prakash, K. N. Singh etc.
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Munna taaron ka raaja
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) was a Deep and Sandeep Production movie. In other words, this movie was produced by Pradeep Kumar with his brother. Karunesh Thakur directed the movie and the starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Rehman, Jabeen Jalil, Leela Chitnis, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti, Shashikala, Jawahar Kaul etc.
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Paapi papeeha re pi pi na bol
Posted on: March 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, I got acquainted with some of the popular music directors of the pre-partition days mainly through listening to some of their bench-mark songs on Radio Ceylon. Khwaja Khurshid Anwar is one of those names.
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“Raftaar” (1975) was a movie that was not quite A grade, nor it was an entirely B grade movie. In 1970s, such movies, which were neither here nor there tended to have Vinod Mehra and Mausami Chatterji in them as the lead pair. Put another way, they were poor producer’s Dharmendra-Hema Malini.
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Main to baanke nainon waali
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names like Johny Walker, Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, etc.
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Pad gaye jhoole saawan rut aayi re
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Bahu Begam” (1967) was a movie which was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sapru, Naaz, Leela Misra, Helen, Johnny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Zeb Rehman, etc.
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Mausam e bahaar yaar
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Sargam” (1950) was a Filmistan production. It was directed by P L Santoshi and the starcast included names like Raj Kapoor, Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc.
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Manzil to hai badi door
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Bhai Sahab”(1954) was a Pancholi Art Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave and the star cast included C H Atma, Smriti Biswas, Purnima,Ratan Kumar, Jagdeep etc.
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