Archive for April 2013
Pyaasi hai mamta meri aa jaa re
Posted on: April 19, 2013
“Maa Beta” (1962) was a Tasveeristan Production movie. It was produced by Kuldip Sehgal and directed by Lejhraj Bhakri. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Manoj Kumar, Ameeta, Lalita Pawar, Manmohan Krishan, I.S.Johar, Sheela Ramani, Kumar, Vijay Dutta, Manorama, Leela Mishra, Tarun Bose, Indira Bhansal, Shamlal, Raj Prakash, Madhumati, Shukla, Brahm Dutt, Brahm Bhardwaj etc in it.
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Aag raag se aag lagaa do
Posted on: April 19, 2013
“Sultaan e Aalam” (1956) was produced by H P Mehra. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Heeralal, Kuldip Kaur etc in it.
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Jis din se miley tum ham
Posted on: April 19, 2013
I have mentioned in the past that Hindi movie music is like an ocean and that some of gems in this ocean are buried deep and they can be brought up only by diving deep into it.
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Bogi bogi bogi
Posted on: April 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
HAM LOG (1951) was a typical Zia Sarhadi film highlighting the social issues in keeping with the socialistic ideology followed by Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). The film was produced under the banner of Ranjit Movietone. In this film, social issues were raised that arose out of the difficulties faced by a poor family of Lalaji Harcharandas (Kanhaiyalal) and his wife (Durga Khote), unemployed son Raj (Balraj Sahani), a sickly daughter Paro (Nutan) and a school going son (Master Ratan). The problem is further accentuated by the arrest of Lalaji for allegedly stealing money from his employer for which he is sent to prison.
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Jhoome re jhoome re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Ramanand Sagar released his ‘Aankhen’ in 1968, the film took the box office by storm, and was declared as a blockbuster by the trade journals. Ramanand Sagar bagged the Filmare award for the best director, and the film also got the Filmfare award for color cinematography. The music was hit, with lyrics coming from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi and the music from the baton on Ravi. A film that truly settled Dharmendra’s career on a strong footing. In many ways, the film became a trendsetter.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
KAPOOR Khandaan is called the First family of Bollywood, not for nothing !
Starting with Prithwiraj Kapoor till Kareena and Ranbir, all through the generations, they have been shining in the film industry. This is not just because they belonged to the Kapoor khandaan. In film industry, particularly in the acting field, one can not survive for long, if one has no talent or if he is not doing hard work. One’ s ancestry alone is not acceptable to the Indian audience. This has been proved time and again. For example, Raaj kumar, Raj Babbar, Rajendra Kumar or Shashi Kapoor were successful actors, but what happened to their sons ?
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Bahut mukhtsar hai hamaari kahaani
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a forgotten movie by now. When I decided to discuss a song from this movie, I looked for its details on internet and failed to find much. Then I noticed that a post of this blog is also listed by google as a source of information for this movie. I clicked that link, I found that we in this blog have discussed two songs from this movie and our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has shared information about this movie with us which remains the most comprehensive and detailed information available on this movie on internet. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Nindiya aayi re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Kidar Sharma wrote the lyrics of the song so jaa rajkumari so jaa, he might not have been aware that he wrote the first lori (lullaby) song for a Hindi film. Another thing he did differently was that he wrote the lori lyrics for a male singer-actor (K L Saigal) whereas the lori is traditionally sung by women. This could happen because, as he said in his autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’ (2002), he had in fact written a lori ‘so jaa raj dulari so jaa, so jaa main balihaari so jaa’ especially for his wife Raj Dulari. But K L Saigal fell in love with it and pressurised Kidar Sharma to make it public. It was only after his wife agreed that Kidar Sharma consented to use this lori for the film ‘Zindagi” (1940) by changing ‘raj dulari’ to ‘rajkumari’. This lori sung by K L Saigal became very popular all over India.
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