Archive for 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before the advent of television and internet, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati were the main sources of listening to Hindi film songs. In respect of old Hindi film songs, it was observed that while Radio Ceylon specialised in broadcasting film songs of 40s and 50s, Vividh Bharati’s broadcast was more pronounced towards the songs of late 50s and 60s. Accordingly, during those days of radio, I had categorised songs into ‘Radio Ceylon’ songs and ‘Vividh Bharati’ songs depending upon where these songs were heard the most. 😀
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“Sagaai”(1951) was a Verma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail. Starcast of the movie included names like Premnath, Rehana, Sunder, Cuckoo, Gope, Yakub, Vijayalaxmi, Purnima, Mohana, Iftekhar etc.
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Tere sang pyaar main nahin todna
Posted on: January 18, 2012
“Naagin” (1954) is the original Naagin movie and this movie proved to be the definitive “Naagin” movie of all time. Its “been” music became the gold standard for the music of all snake movies.
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“Anjaana”(1969) was an Em Kay Productions movie. Em Kay, viz Mohan Kumar also directed the movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Rajendra Kumar, Babita, Pran, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Sunder, Nirupa Roy, Mohan Choti, Tuntun, Mehmood Junior etc.
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Boley ye dil ka ishaara
Posted on: January 18, 2012
“Santaan” (1959) is an Anupam Chitra Production. This movie was produced by Mahesh Kaul and directed by Jyoti Swaroop. The starcast of the movie included names like Rajendra Kumar, Kamini Kadam, Nazir Hussain, Reeta Rai, Leela Mishra, Manorama, David Abraham etc.
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“Shahnaaz” (1948) is by now an obscure and forgotten movie. Little is known about this movie today.This movie was a Wahab Production movie and it was directed by S Hassan. The star cast of the movie included names like Nihar, Begum Para, Sheikh, Shanta Patel, Shyama, Gulzar, Altaf etc.
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Apni nazar se unki nazar tak
Posted on: January 18, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are some Hindi film songs, especially of early 50s, which have been in my memory bank since childhood and those includes the songs from “Hum Log” (1951). Two songs of this film viz. Chali jaa chali jaa chali jaa and Chhun chhun chhun baaje paayal (Ham Log) were very popular when the film was released. Those days, these songs were quite often played over loudspeakers in my neighbourhood.
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Mujhe kehte hain Kalloo qawwaal
Posted on: January 17, 2012
“Dulha Dulhan”(1964) is a movie which was produced by Nagina Films. This movie was produced and directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Raj Kapoor, Sadhana, Raj Mehra, K.N.Singh, Agha, Madhumati, Kumud Tripathi, Madhumati, Bhola, Yusuf, AnwariBai, Vishwa Mehra, Mridula Rani etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A film with the name ‘Baadshah’ was released in 1954, with music by Shankar Jaikishan. Three songs from this film are already posted on this blog. And then, in 1964, there is another film released by the same name. Produced under the banner of Navkala Niketan, the film is directed by Chandrakant Gaur. The lyrics are from the pen of Anand Bakshi, and the music compositions are by N Dutta. The film is a stunt costume drama with the cast of actors including Dara Singh, Nishi, Kumari Rani, Tiwari, Rajan Haksar, Kehsav Rana, Radheyshyam, Kumud Tripathi, Uma Khosla, Mumtaz Begum, Rafique Sultana, Shiela Devi, Shamina, Kesari etc.
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