Archive for May 2013
Umr to pyaar karne ki aayi
Posted on: May 24, 2013
There have been several movies titled “Zindagi”. This blog has so far discussed songs from “Zindagi” (1940), “Zindagi” (1956) and “Zindagi” (1964).
Here is a song from “Zingadi” (1976). This song is sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar and it is picturised on Mausami Chatterji and Vinod Mehra.
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Chale aana sanam uthhaaye kadam
Posted on: May 24, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Raj Ratan is the name that I am not familiar with. This music director is making a debut on this blog today. When I came across this name as I checked on this song, it did not sound very familiar. I did some quick scanning of the Geet Kosh, but am not able to locate too much more work done by this composer. In the quick scan I did, I am able to pull up just two more films by him, and that too in the years far apart (‘Ramu Ustad’ in 1971, and ‘Madine Ki Galiyan’ in 1979). It appears as if he is a person who is active in the industry as an assistant music director, and has had an occasional opportunity to independently score music, as a music director.
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“Opera House”(1961) was produced and directed by A G Nadiadwala. The movie had B Saroja Devi, Ajit, Lalita Pawar, Maruti, Balam, S N Banerji, Niranjan Sharma, K N Singh, Mirza Musharraf, Mumtaz Begum, Munshi Munaqqa, Johnny Whisky, Sarjoo Abid, Vikram Kashmiri, Leela, Bela Bose, Abila etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film ‘Teesri Gali’ makes a debut on this blog today. It is one of the lesser known films from 1958. But being that the music direction is by Chitragupt, there are bound to be some very good songs included in this film. And sure enough, the song in this post is a gem that has stayed obscure for too long. A very wonderful and a lilting duet in the voices of Hemant Da and Lata ji.
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Ajeeb hai zindagi ki manzil
Posted on: May 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
hain aur bhi duniyaa mein sukhanwar bahut achchhe
kahte hain ki Ghalib kaa hai andaaz-e-bayaan aur
Whenever I remember this maqta of Ghalib’s ghazal, Majrooh Sultanpuri’s name props up in my mind. I always felt how apt it would be if words ‘duniyaa’ and ‘Ghalib’ from the maqta she’r were replaced with ‘filmi jahaan’ and ‘Majrooh’. During Majrooh Sultanpuri’s time, there were renowned poet-lyricists like Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Shailendra, Kaifi Azmi, Jan Nisar Akhtar and later, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar etc. but Majrooh’s andaaz-e-bayaan , the sophistication even in his teasing, racy and light hearted lyrics in Hindi film songs was something which became the hallmark of his style of song writings. He wrote songs trending with the time. Perhaps this explains why Majrooh Sultanpuri had one of the longest innings of over five decades in the Hindi film industry, penning songs for most of the well known music directors – from Naushad in 1946 to A R Rehman in 2000.
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“Ek Ladki Saat Ladke” (1961) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Ravindra Kapoor, Ameeta, Badri Prasad, Manju, Durga Khote etc in it.
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O bhoolnewaale
Posted on: May 23, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s song is the FIRST NFS sung by Kishore Kumar on this Blog. This was written by Kewal Sharma and the music was by Ramesh Gupta-who was a wellknown lyricist.
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Pyaar jataa ke apna bana ke
Posted on: May 23, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #18
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The year of 1947 was the most prolific yet for Mukesh. Having started his singing career for Hindi films in 1941, in the six years from 1941 to 1946, he had sung a total of 21 songs in eleven films. Of these, seven are solos and fourteen are duets. As far as incremental score is concerned, the years 1945 and 1946 were very good in comparison to the years from 1941 to 1944.
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Tu meri adhoori pyaas pyaas
Posted on: May 22, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This song from the film Ghajini (2008) is desert song no. 11. This movie is action thriller/Drama/romance film remake of a Tamil/Telegu film of same name released in 2005. The story is about a business tycoon, suffering from ‘short term memory loss’. He is out to take revenge for his girlfriend’s murder. The murderer’e name is the title of the movie. Due to his ‘Short term memory loss’ situation, he has all the important information concerning his life tattoo’ed on his body, so that he never loses sight of his mission. The hindi version had Amir Khan and Asin in the lead roles. The detailed information about the Hindi version is >here And the details of Tamil / Telegu version are here.
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“Ganga Ki Saugandh” (1978) was a Sultan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Sultan Ahmad. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Farida Jalal, Achala Sachdev, Bindu, Amjad Khan, Satyen Kapoo, Jeevan, I.S.Johar, Iftekar, Pran, Anwar Hussain, Jagdeep, Mukri, Nana Palsikar, Mac Mohan, Tabrez, Murad, Hercules, Keshav Rana, Dulari, Paro Devi, Reddy, Bismillah, Bishan Khanna, Nazir Kashimiri, Gulam Hussain, Sandow, Tiwari, Kailash, Pardesi, Akbar Khan, Shetty, Sulochana Latkar, Fazlu, Gulam Sabir, Aziz Siddiq, Rajani Gupta, Yogesh Chhabra, Sanjana, A.K.Rishi, Soni, Jaani, Amir Ali, Ramlal, Saleem, Achhan, Maqbool, Syed Hussain, Purnima, D.S.Rana, Pehalwan, Jillani, Aqeel, Brahm Bhardwaj, Nazara Singh etc in it.
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