Archive for March 2013
“Shahnaaz” (1948) was a Wahab Production movie. It was directed by S Hassan. The movie had Nihar, Begum Para, Sheikh, Shanta Patel, Shyama, Gulzar, Altaf etc in it.
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Nanha sa dil deti hoon
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.
The year is 1957. The time in the Hindi film industry when the big name banners prominently ruled, and the success and recognition of film music was the domain of the high profile music directors. An era with a lot of stories of how Filmfare awards were influenced, and how the privileged songs were made to climb to the top of Binaca Geetmala list. In such a time and such an era, an ‘unprivileged’ song rapidly climbed the charts of popularity, completely defying the set commercial conventions, and confounding the hold of hierarchical tradition of established big names in the industry, it became the no. 1 song of 1957 at the top of Binaca Geetmala charts. The film – an unimpressive and an unremarkable socio-religious drama by the name of ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’. The song – an unmatchable and a very endearing duet by Rafi Sb and Lata Mangeshkar – “Zaraa Saamne To Aa O Chhaliye”, an unlikely song of a human being’s search for the Almighty. The deep and impressive words of Bharat Vyas tuned to a lovely melody by a master craftsman of classical and folk genre – Shrinath Tripathi, better known as SN Tripathi.
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Ud jaa re ud jaa papeehe
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) was a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Le ja uss ki duaayen
Posted on: March 13, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is one of those few songs that Mohammed Rafi sang for Music Director Anil Biswas for the film ‘Heer’ (1956). Eight songs from this film already posted in the blog. They are all very touching song. This is a film on the legend of Heer-Ranjha, a folk lore of Punjab. Much of the folk music and poetry from this region is devoted to such legendary love stories like Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal and Mirza-Sahibaan. This song ‘ le ja uss ki du’aayen ho jo tera ho na sakaa ‘ is the ninth song to appear in the blog.
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Musaafir hansi khushi ho paar
Posted on: March 13, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year 1942 was an important and eventful year in the Hindi Film Industry History.The whole industry was overhauled,as many of the stalwarts in Production, Direction and Acting, established their own Institutions.
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Bata de ae dil
Posted on: March 13, 2013
“Pooja” (1954) was a Verma Films production. It was directed by Bhagwandas Verma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Purnima, Badri Prasad, Shakunthala Paranjape, Om Prakash, Raj Mehra, Ulhas, S Nazir, Hira Lal, Janakidas etc in it.
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Jiya mora bal bal jaaye re
Posted on: March 13, 2013
“Room No. 9″(1946) must be among the most obscure movies of all time. Tis movie was directed by Vedi. The movie had Shyam, Geeta Nizami, K N Singh, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1945) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Ishwar Lal, Renuka Devi, Nayam Pally, Suraiya, Mubarak, Sulochana Chatterjee etc in it.
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Main shabaab hoon
Posted on: March 13, 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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Meri patni mujhe sataati hai
Posted on: March 12, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the song, where all the three comedians of the film are gathered together for a song. I think this is the only song in the Hindi film history where these three comedians par excellence have together in one song.
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