Archive for April 2013
Sharm aati hai magar
Posted on: April 8, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is Lata’s second solo number in the film Padosan (1968). It is interesting to note that there are no male-female duets in the film. The hero and heroine do not get any chance to sing with each other. No, not even across the street from their respective windows.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contribuor to this blog.
In India people are too quick to categorise communities. For example, they believe that every Marwadi must be Kanjoosh(stingy), every Gujrati must be a businessman, all Kashmiri women must be beautiful. All Parsees must be eccentric or all Sardarjees must be either in Army/ a carpenter or a Truck driver.
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Ho door desh se aa jaa re
Posted on: April 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This is his 200th writeup in the blog.
SHOKHIYAN (1951) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma under the banner of Ambitious Pictures. The star cast included Premnath, Suraiya, Jeewan, Kamlesh Kumari, Nazira, Shanta Kanwar, Achala Sachdev, Ramesh Sinha etc. There were 8 songs in the film of which 6 were penned by Kidar Sharma and remaining two songs by his brother Himmat Rai Sharma. Kidar Sharma was impressed with Jamal Sen’s classical and Rajasthani folk tunes he demonstrated to him and thus got the music direction of the film.
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“Neelkamal” (1947) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in lead roles. The movie also had Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Shanta Kumari, Baby Indira, Kumar Sahu , Pesi Patel, Subhashini etc in it.
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“Chandrasena” (1959) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Girija, Paul Sharma, B M Vyas, Krishna Kumari etc in it.
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Taaron ki aankhon ka taara tu
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
PHOOLON KI SEJ (1964) was produced by the maestro P Adinarayana Rao under the banner of Anjali Pictures. The film was based on a novel ‘Andhere Chiraag’ written by Gulshan Nanda and directed by Inder Raj Anand who also wrote screen play and dialogues for the film. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Vyjayntimala, Manoj Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Anjali Devi, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiyalal, Mukri etc. All the songs of the film were written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by P Adinarayana Rao. Orchestration of the songs was done by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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“Ghar Ghar Mein Diwaali” (1955) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Jagirdar. The movie had Eruch Tarapore, Jagirdar, Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama etc in it.
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