Archive for 2013
Nazron ne maara hum kyaa karen
Posted on: June 11, 2013
“Zimbo comes to town” (1960) was a Combine Film Theatres production. The movie was produced by Homi Wadia and directed by Nanabhai Bhatt. The movie had Chitra, Azad, Bhagwan, Shammi, Nilofar, Habeeb, Dalpat, Bismillah, Mittu Miyan, M. K. Hasan, Geeta, Julian, Korega, Yadav, Ratan, Raman Joshi, Pedro aka Manav Chimpazi etc in it.
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Jiya doley ho jiya doley
Posted on: June 11, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the third song in the series ” Lata with uncommon singers”. Here Lata is with Shaukat Hyderi or Nashad. Yes, he is the same Nashad, Music Director, who gave several memorable songs in the 50s and 60s like ‘Tasveer banata hoon’ and ‘ O teer chalaanewaale’-both from Talat and ‘ Badi mushkil se dil ki’ by Shamshad Begum.
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Jab ek qazaa se guzro to
Posted on: June 10, 2013
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few weeks ago I got a request from Avinash Scrapwalaji to do a write-up for a certain song. He sent me, by e-mail, the concerned lyrics and the videos (audio only) but, for some reason, wanted me to do the write-up.
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Tauba tauba tauba ye adaayen
Posted on: June 10, 2013
“Naya Paisa” (1958) was a Super Pictures production. It was directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Johnny Walker, Chand Usmani, Krishna Kumari, Shammi, Tuntun etc in it.
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“Commander”(1959) was a Meher Movies Production. It was produced by M Usman Nadiadwala and directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Ranjan, Nigar Sultana, Kumkum, Helen, Kamal Kapoor, Chaman Puri, Maruti Rao, Tiwari, Ram Mohan, Manjeet, Kailash Kumari, Rana, Saroj, Krupal, Gaurang, Ramesh Tiwari etc in it.
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Paas balam chori chori aa
Posted on: June 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from LAJAWAB-1950. Anil Biswas was the Music Director. By 1950, he had been in the Hindi film industry for about 15 years. He was hailed as the original composer and also the senior most one to be called “Bhishma Pitamah” of the HFM. He had attained fame, name, money, love and position in the industry, but one thing always bothered him and that was that, he had not been able to compose any song for Saigal or Noorjehan.
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Naina soyi soyi raina jaage jaage
Posted on: June 9, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One day, I was searching for something in the Hindi Film Geet Kosh (HFGK) by Harmandir Hamraz ji. While skipping through pages, I noticed a very peculiar thing. I sat up and started from the beginning all over again. I began from films of 1947 upto 1980 and confirmed what I had noticed.
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Sau saal jiyo tum jaan meri
Posted on: June 9, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
May this day come again and again
May my heart sing this again and again
May you live a thousand years
This is indeed my wish
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to
Happy Birthday to you
This is the translation of the birthday song Bar baar din ye aaye…happy birthday to you from “Farz”.
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“Bhai Bhai” (1956) was an AVM Productions movie. It was produced by A V Meiyappan and directed by M V Raman.
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Ye kis manzil pe le aayi
Posted on: June 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hindi film industry is known for making most of the artists (actors, directors, music directors, singers, lyricists etc.) struggle for years before they finally reap the rewards of success in their careers. There are some who continued to struggle in the film industry for long without attaining much success in their pursuits. For examples, playback singers like Sudha Malhotra and Minoo Purshottam, music directors like C Arjun and G S Kohli and lyricists like Asad Bhopali and Naqsh Layalpuri did not attain the success in their filmy careers which they deserved. In this list, Asad Bhopali seems to be the ‘leader’ among strugglers.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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