Archive for March 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are ways of discovering wondrous songs now. Radio was the main source where we heard old movie songs. Then for newer songs we had cassette players and C D players and also T V. With the accessibility of internet, I do not need any thing else to listen to songs but my laptop and net connection.
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Sona lai jaa re chaandi lai jaa re
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Mera Gaaon Mera Desh” (1971) was produced by Lekhraj Khosla and Bholu Khosla and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Dharmendra, Asha Parekh, Vinod Khanna, Laxmi Chhaya, Jayant, Purnima, Bhagwan, Asit Sen, Sudhir, Mohan Choti, Birbal, Manmohan, Baldeo Khosa, Bunty, Shah Agha, Uma Dutt, Soni, Paro, Manju, Ravi Khanna etc in it.
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Hari bin kaise jiyun ri
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Guddi” (1971) was produced by N C Sippy and Hrishikesh Mukherji and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Samit Bhanj, Jaya Bhaduri, Asrani, Sunita Sanyal, Vijay Sharma, A K Hangal, Keshto Mukherjee, Chandra,, Lalita Kumari, Utpal Dutt, Bhagwan etc with Dharmendra in guest appearance.
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Aayiye bahaar ko ham baant len
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Taqdeer” (1967) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by A Saleem. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shalini Mardholkar, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalaal, Kaajal, Subhash Ghai, Ajay Kumar, Jalal Agha, Susheel Kumar, Champak Laala, Dinesh Kumar, Dilip Dutt, Usha, Namita Guha, Master Shahid, Lalita Kumari, Indira Bansal, Narbada Shankar, Tuntun, Sunder, Salim, Amir Ali etc in it.
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Chaahe koi mujhe bhoot kahe
Posted on: March 20, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During the early phase of Talkie films, all other regional Film producers, particularly the Southern ones looked up to Hindi films to provide them with ‘ Inspiration ‘.
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Soch rahi thhi kahoon na kahoon
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) was a Parbat Films Production. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Shyam Dhawan and directed by Bhappi Soni. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Dhumal, David Abraham, Krishan Dhawan, Rashid Khan, Bir Sakuja, Iqbal Singh, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Bela Bose, Radhika Sarathkumar, Sulochana Latkar, Reeta Roy, Madan Kenny, Kewal Kapoor, Mohan Choti etc in it.
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Khel re khilaune
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Dashavatar”(1951) was a J K Films Production. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Niranjan Sharma, Tabassum etc in it.
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Mere chhail chhabeele
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Neki Aur Badi” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Geeta Bali, Pesi Patel, Nazira, Madhubala, Kidar Sharma, Uma Dutt etc in it.
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Jis raat ke khwaab aaye
Posted on: March 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular cotributor to this blog.
The name of Habba Khatoon, the Kashmiri poetess may not be familiar to many people. This name became familiar to me only sometime in 1987 when Muzzafar Ali ( of Umrao Jaan fame) announced his plan to make a film on the life of Habba Khatoon. Dimple Kapadia was taken for the title role with Vinod Khanna in the role of the first husband of Habba Khatoon. The title of the film was changed to ‘Zooni’, Habba Khatoon’s maiden name. The lyrics were to be written by Shahryar and Khayyam was to give the music direction. Muzzafar Ali believed that Zooni’s life was the powerful vehicle to project the real Kashmir. After nearly 20 months of shooting in Kashmir, the film was shelved in 1989 probably due to the rise of militancy in the Kashmir valley. I got my hand on a small video clip of the film on YT uploaded by Basheer Ali who was the Director of Photography for the film. From the content of the clip which also has a part of the song ‘rukh-e-dildaar deedam daras ko aaye preetam’ picturised on Dimple Kapadia, it appears that it was made as a part of marketing the film for international audience. The video clip is here.
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