Archive for 2012
When I met Sudhir Jee a few days ago, one of the things that we discussed was the fact that there are so many film personalities that we have discussed and many more that are not yet covered and not yet discussed. How we would like to have a comprehensive list of all the anniversaries of all the film personalities, so that we could discuss their songs on their anniversaries. Once we have our list of anniversary dates ready, we may have our hands full, what with every date of the year most likely having a few anniversaries.
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Dekho jee dekho sun lo ye baat
Posted on: July 29, 2012
Today (29 july) is the death anniversary of F C Mehra (29 august 1923 – 29 july 2008), who set up Eagle Films and he produced some well known movies from 1960 onwards.
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Today (29 july) is the birthday of Anup Jalota. Anup Jalota mainly sang non film bhajans, but he has sung a few songs in Hindi movies as well.
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Today (29th july) is the death anniversary of Sudhir Phadke (25 july 1919- 29 july 2002). He got the opportunity to compose in very few Hindi movies, but he has left an indelible mark in the annals of Hindi movie music. Who can forget the immortal song Jyoti kalash chhalke from “Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan”. Another timeless classic, viz. Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai is also his creation.
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Hamne raat guzaari taare gin gin ke
Posted on: July 29, 2012
“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures Production. It was directed by Rakhan. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Padmini, Jabeen Jaleel, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev, etc in it.
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Man veena madhur boley
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before she burst on to the Bollywood scene with C.I.D. (1956) and Pyaasa (1957), Padma Bhushan Waheeda Rehman starred in two movies each in Telugu and Tamil including, as the second heroine, in the D. Yoganand directed Anjali Devi-A. Nageswara Rao starrer 1955 Telugu production Jayasimha. It was later dubbed in Hindi by P. Ramesh Naidu and released as Jai Singh in 1959.
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Ye baat koi samjhaaye re
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sandhya Mukherjee is one of the relatively lesser known playback singers of 50s as far as Hindi film industy is concerned. But she has gone on to become one of the top most playback singers of Bengali films. I first came to know about her as a playback singer when I bought a 78 RPM record (No. N. 36794) of the film ‘Sazaa’ (1951) for the iconic song ‘tum na jaane kis jahaan mein kho gaye’. The other side of the gramophone record had “aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen” sung by Sandhya Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar. When I first listened to this song, I felt that I got a bonus song along with the iconic song of the film.
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Man dol rahaa hai
Posted on: July 29, 2012
“Qeemat” (1946) is an extremely rare and obscure movie by now. Hardly any information is available about this movie online. This movie had Sulochana Chatterjee, Amar etc in it, as far as I can find out.
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“Baaghi” (1964) was a Mukul Movies production. It was directed by Ram Dayal. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Leela Naidu, Helen, Mumtaz, Jeevan, Veena, Ulhas, Naaz, Vijaya Choudhry, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Jab se tujhe jaan gayee
Posted on: July 28, 2012
“Bluffmaster” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. It had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Pran, Mohan Choti, Laxmi Chhaya, TunTun, Rashid Khan, Shyam Lal, Charlie Walker, Jugal Kishore, Anand Joshi, Santhosh Kumar etc in it.
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