Archive for March 2013
Us dil ki bhala taskeen ho kyaa
Posted on: March 15, 2013
“Anand Bhawan” (1953) was an Aaina Pictures production. It was directed by S M Yousuf. The movie had Manhar Desai, Nigar Sultana, Kate Sethi, Trilok Kapoor, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc in it.
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Mera tan naache mera man naache
Posted on: March 15, 2013
“Badalti Duniya” (1943) was a Murari Pictures production. It was directed by Mohan Sinha. The movie had Trilok Kapoor, Mumtaz Shanti, K C Dey, Rajkumari Shukla ( actress, who is different from the singer Rajkumari Dubey, who sang in this movie), Badri Prasad, Shahzaadi, Waskar etc. in it.
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Man baat na meri maane
Posted on: March 15, 2013
“Rangeen Kahaani” was an N R Art Pictures production. It was directed by Anjum Hussain. The movie had S Irshad, Parvez, S Ahmad, Bibijaan, Khurshid, Surekha, Dulaari, Agha etc in it.
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Papa kehte hain bada naam karega
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hi All
Today is a special day in the life of Mr. perfect Khan…. I mean Amir Khan. He turns a year older. It was exactly 25 years ago that he burst into filmdom with the song which I intend to discuss today. Come to think of it the other 2 Khans – Shahrukh and Salman– also complete 25 years in Bollywood.
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Kaho kahaan chalen
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Bulandi” (1980) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. So naturally I do not have much information about the movie. 🙂 So I had to look for details of this movie online.
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Badla dilwaayegaa yaa rab
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s date, 14th March, is an anniversary of another sort, very intimately related with Hindi films and Hindi film songs. Today is the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the Hindi film song. It was this day, that the first talkie film of the Hindi screen was exhibited for the first time. The film is ‘Aalam Ara’, and the first public exhibition of this film occurred on 14th March, 1931, at a theatre named Majestic in Bombay. With the release of this film, the silent moving pictures acquired a voice, the story acquired the spoken word, and the medium changed forever with the infusion of the most significant element in the repertoire of Hindi cinema – music and songs.
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Aaye re din saawan ke
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Gaban” (1966) was based on a Munshi Premchand Novel of the same name. It was a B J Production movie which was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K Sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B B Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C S Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Here is a Rail song from the film ‘Aap ki Parchhaiyyan’ (1964). It is a Rafi solo written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and composed by Madan Mohan. Dharmendra is travelling in a train, going home to his parents, it would appear.
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Sur ki gati main kyaa jaanoon
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In a book ‘Vedanta Treatise’ I have with me, four types of yogas have been prescribed for attainment of salvation. They are Bhakti (devotion), Gyaana (knowledge), Karma (activity) and Hata (compulsion). It is generally believed that devotion is the mother of all other yogas. Without devotion, all other yogas would be incomplete for attaining the objective. In this context, I recall an introduction by late C Rajagopalichari on a LP of M S Subbulaxmi’s immortal ‘Bhaj Govindam-Vishnu Shashtranamavali and I quote a part of it from the CD I have with me:
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