Archive for 2012
“Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli” (1971) was a V Shantaram Production movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Ravindra, Vasant Parekh, Minal, Abhijeet, Vastala Deshmukh, Iftekhar, Sandhya, Dina Gandhi, Raja Paranjpe, Nanda, Birbal, Praveen Kumar, Sushant Ray etc in it.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A year before she arrived at the zenith of playback singing with Aayega aane waala in Mahal (1949), a still-teenage Lataji vocalized her first ghazal – the mind-blowing Dil-e-naashaad ko jeene ki hasrat ho gayee tumse under the baton of Hansraj Bahl in Chunariya (1948). Her superb rendition of this none-too-easy a number with expression, enunciation and mastery on its many murkis in all octaves is just breath-taking.
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“Chacha Zindabad” (1959) was a Light and Shade production. It was directed by Om Prakash. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Anita Guha, Jagirdar, Anoop Kumar, Raj Mehra, Manorama, Tuntun, Sunder, Bhagwan, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Maana ke tum haseen ho
Posted on: October 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Voice of Mukesh #4
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The year 1945 saw the release of two films which had songs by Mukesh. The films are ‘Moorti’ and ‘Pehli Nazar’. The latter, of course, is the film that set Mukesh on the path of stardom as a singer. Let us first talk about ‘Moorti’.
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Chaahe duniya laakh sataaye
Posted on: October 30, 2012
“Neelam Pari” (1952) was a Chandrakala Film Production movie. It was directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Sajjan, Geeta Bali, Sapru, Gope, Kuldip Kaur, Kamal, Samson, Niranjan Sharma etc in it.
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Aaj udta hua ek panchhi
Posted on: October 29, 2012
“Gehra Daag” (1963) was a Ralhan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Ratnamala, Usha Kiran, Madan Puri, Mumtaz, Tuntun, Lalita Pawar, Ragini, Bupet Raja, Moppet Shahid, Manmohan Krishna, Bihari, Ram Mohan, Sunder etc in it.
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Bartan kalai karaa lo
Posted on: October 29, 2012
One post in two days is considered good enough for most blogs, but not this one. 🙂 There was one post yesterday and none so far today and that is slow going by the standards of this blog where six to seven songs a day is the norm.
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Baazooband khul khul jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is a known fact that popular thumris (or ghazals) ascribed to the original classical and ghazal singers have also been sung by a few other doyens of Hindustani classical and ghazal singers. For instance, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sang two thumris – ‘yaad piya ki aaye’ and ‘aaye na baalam kaa karu sajani’ to express his grief over the loss of his beloved wife in 1932, which became so popular that many classical singers in the concerts would get ‘farmaish’ to sing these two thumris. Similarly, Shakeel Badayuni’s ghazal ‘ae mohabbat tere anjaam pe ronaa aaya’ which was made immortal by Begum Akhtar’s rendition in early 50s, has been sung by many renowned ghazal singers. In the filmy parlance, these become version renditions of thumris and ghazals.
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Kabhi kuchh pal jeewan ke
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Rang Birangi” (1983) was a Rajeev Pictures Production. It was produced by Rajeev Pandya and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Amol Palekar, Parveen Babi, Deepti Naval, Farooque Sheikh, Deven Varma, Utpal Dutt, Chhaya Devi, Om Prakash, Moolchand, Raj Babbar, Bindiya Goswami, Javed Khan, Poonam, Amol Sen etc in it.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari, Bela Bose, Minoo Mumtaz, Shobhana, Achla Sachdev, Altaf, Zeb Rehman, Mehmood etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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