Archive for June 2013
Hamaare sainyya daaroo pi ke aaye
Posted on: June 14, 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 #20
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We are discussing songs sung by Mukesh, in the year 1947. In this year, the film ‘Do Dil’ was a veritable bonanza for Mukesh, with the music director Pt. Gobindram getting Mukesh to sing for as many as six songs. Three of these songs are solo, and three duets. On this blog, we have already posted the three solo songs, and two of the duets (with Suraiyyaa). Here is the third duet, and the sixth Mukesh song from this film. The accompanying voice in this song is that of Rajkumari.
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Ye hawa ye fiza ye bahaaren
Posted on: June 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Geeta Dutt was one of the few singers who got a godsend opportunity as a playback singer in Hindi films. The devdoot or farishta (angel) in her case was none other than Pandit Hanuman Prasad, one of the music director of the 40s. While walking on a Mumbai street, he heard a singing voice coming from the balcony of the building above him which attracted his attention. He straightway walked into the room and found a teenage girl singing. She was Geeta Roy as she was known then. He liked her singing so much that he offered her the chance to sing a predominantly chorus song in the film ‘Bhakt Prahlad (1946) in which she had two lines to sing. These two lines from the song attracted the attention of S D Burman who persuaded her parents to let her sing in ‘Do Bhai’ (1947). The iconic song “mera sundar sapna beet gaya” and the box office success of the film signalled the arrival of Geeta Roy as a playback singer. By the end of 40s, she had already attained the status of one of the prominent female playback singers of Hindi films.
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Tere honthhon ko teri laali ko
Posted on: June 13, 2013
This article is the 8200th song post in the blog.
We in this blog tend to reach the milestone of blog centuries every two weeks or so. Regulars must have noticed that more than three weeks have passed since the previous century post, which came about on 19 may 2013. Now, 25 days later, we finally reach the next century milestone for the blog, viz the 8200th song for the blog.
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Preetam aan milo
Posted on: June 13, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film Angoor (1982) has only three songs and thus this is the last song to appear from this film. This song has not only similar opening lines like C. H. Atma’s preetam aan milo (also sung by Geeta Dutt in Mr. & Mrs. 55 , but also shares its tune. Dismissing this version as a parody, however, would be underrating it.
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“Zarak Khan” (1963) was a Shanti Niketan Productions movie. It was directed by Harbans Singh. The movie had Jairaj, Chitra, Naazi, Kumud Tripathi, W. M. Khan, Tiwari etc in it.
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Atkan batkan dahi chatokan
Posted on: June 13, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
While selecting songs for this series, I came across this song. The credits of this song said- Lata and Honey Irani. I immediately checked HFGK. There also the same information was there. I knew that Honey Irani had no singing history. I first listened to this song. I found that there are no singing lines to Honey Irani, she just utters 2 or 3 words in the song. However I selected this song because-
1. Since the Video was available, we could watch the curly haired cutie Honey Irani.
2. The Lyrics of this song are like Anokhe Bol and
3. It was a song from 1960, when Lata’s voice still had that magic in it.
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Apna hai phir bhi apna
Posted on: June 13, 2013
“Bhai Bhai” (1956) was an AVM Productions movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by M V Raman. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Nimmi, Nirupa Roy, Shyama, Om Prakash, David, Master Chottu, Kesari, Shivaraj, Master Arun, Master Babu, Roop Kumar etc in it.
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Ye hawaayen sanam ye nazaare
Posted on: June 13, 2013
“Passing Show” (1956), an obscure B grade movie, was directed by Master Bhagwan for Mukul Pictures. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Shakeela, Daljeet, Purnima etc in it.
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Roz roz daali daali
Posted on: June 12, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I have written in my last post, this film Angoor (1982) is based on William Shakespeare’s Comedy Of Errors. Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma play the two pairs of twins who get separated in childhood. Both the characters played by Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma are named Ashok and Bahadur respectively, where the Bahadurs are servants of the Ashoks. One Ashok with one Bahadur live in one town, while the other pair lives in some other. A big confusion arises, when one pair comes to the town where the other pair lives. To add to the confusion, one pair is married, to Moushumi Chatterjee and Aruna Irani respectively, while the other is still unmarried. Deepti Naval plays the sister-in-law of the married Ashok. Now, if you are pulling your hair out of confusion, I won’t blame you! But that is the stuff, of which Comedy Of Errors is made of!
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Chaand apna safar khatm karta raha
Posted on: June 12, 2013
“Shama” (1981) was a K R Films combines production. This movie is directed by Naeem Basit. The movie had Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Aruna Irani, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kader Khan, Master Raju, Sudha Chopra, Leena Das, Jagdeep, Goga Kapoor, Satyen Kappu, Amjad Khan, Dr Shreeram Laagoo, Vinod Mehra, Yunus Parvez etc in it.
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