Archive for March 2013
Ae baad e sabaa ithhlaati na aa
Posted on: March 3, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
We missed a major anniversary three days ago. Remembering (belatedly) the litterateur, and the famous poet and lyricist, Pt. Narendra Sharma. 28th February, 2013, is the 100th birth anniversary of this illustrious man of letters. Narendra ji was born in 1913 in the village called Jehaangirpuri, in the vicinity of Bulandshehar in Uttar Pradesh, in a Brahmin Gaud family. He was a bright student. Despite losing his father at a very young age, he continued his education, while doing part time work to support himself. In 1936, he completed his Masters in Hindi Literature from Allahabad University.
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Mere devta main tumhaari hoon daasi
Posted on: March 3, 2013
“Ghatna” (1974) was produced by Manu Karamchandani and directed by Mahesh Shandilya for Aradhana Films. The movie had Kiran Kumar, Priti, Anjali Kadam, Asit Sen, Satyen Kappu, Randhir, Jankidass, Ravi Menon, Radhakrishan, Murad, Danny Denzongpa, Shashi Kiran, Acharya etc in it.
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“Alladin and the wonderful lamp” (1952) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Mahipal, Meena Kumari, Vasantrao Pahelwan, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Raja Sandow, Jillo Maa, W. M. Khan, S. N. Tripathi, Azim etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently, I listened to a song ‘is dil se teri yaad bhulaayi nahi jaati’ on YT sung by Mohammed Rafi. The song sounded familiar to me. My first impression was that this song was from an old film. But the uploader of the audio clip mentioned that it was a NFS composed by Hansraj Bahl. I never knew that Mohammed Rafi had sung any NFS under the baton of Hansraj Bahl. One of the regulars on YT whom I consider to be fairly reliable has mentioned that this song was written by Rajinder Krishan as he had heard his name being mentioned by the announcer on Radio Ceylon while playing this song. Since the composition as well as rendition of this song gave me an impression of a filmy song, I searched for other audio clips of the same song and got my hand on an audio clip where the uploader had claimed that the song was from the film ‘Kaneez’ (1949). The film had two music director – Ghulam Haider and Hansraj Bahl and the song was accredited by the uploader to Ghulam Haider-Hansraj Bahl.
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Ae chaand ki zebaayi
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Chhoti Si mulaaqaat” (1967) was a production of “Our Movies”, Calcutta. It was produced by Uttam Kumar and directed by Alo Sarkar. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Tarun Bose, Shashikala, Rajendra Nath, Pratima Devi, Veena, Badri Prasad, Sulochana Chatterjee, B B Bhalla, Radheshyam, S Hussan, Vishi Kapoor, Ratan Gaurang, Praveen Paul, Sundeep, Pinky etc in it.
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Mausam hai bada mastaana
Posted on: March 2, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I had mentioned earlier, the makers of Tarzan films always wanted to include something special in their films to enhance its credibility and acceptibility. In this process they would not stop anywhere, what if the story is senseless and unbelieveable ? They averred that the audience of ” C ” grade films does not come to the Theatres to quench his literary Thirst, but to get ‘paisa vasool’ stories, which satisfy his basic instincts. So no stones are left unturned to bring out that kind of stuff.
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Main hoon kali matwaali
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Panghat” (1943) was a produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by Mahesh Chandra and K J Parmar. The movie had Alaknanda, Sushil Kumar, Leela Pawar, Rajkumari Shukla, Umakant according to imdb, but then this site also mentions Ramesh Gupta and Pt Indra as the playback singers of this movie !
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O paagal premi
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Saudaamini” (1950) was a National Screen Production. It was directed by P C Joshi. The movie had Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, P. Joshi, Sona Chatterji, Bikram Kapoor, Zubeida etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few months back, I came across a non-filmy ghazal ‘asser-e-gham ka bhalaa phir kahaan thikaanaa thhaa’ sung by Kamla Jharia, a classical singer of dadra, thumri, ghazals and devotional songs. She was also an actor-singer and a playback singer mainly in 30s and 40s. I loved this ghazal so much that in token of my appreciation, I decided to write an article on this ghazal for which I was collecting background information on it. During this period, I came across another audio clip of the same ghazal on YT, sung by her. But this time, it was accredited to a Hindi film ‘Struggle’ (1936). So I put my plan to write an article on hold until I solved the puzzle of this ghazal being labelled both as non-filmy as well as a filmy ghazal.
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