Archive for 2013
“Mujrim” (1958), an Eagle Films Production was produced by F C Mehra and directed by O P Ralhan. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Ragini, Shubha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S N Banerjee, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Amrit Rana, Abdul, Agha Miraz, Ratan Gaurang, Sood, Johnny Walker, Geeta Bali, Murad, Ramesh Thakur, Padmini etc in it.
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“Biraj Bahu” (1954) was produced by Hiten Chaudhary and directed by Bimal Roy. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Pran, Kammo, Randhir Manorama, Shakuntala, Bikram Kapoor, Baby Chand aka Nazima, Iftekhar, Moni Chatterjee, Sarita Devi, Maya Dass, Dasarathlal, Shivji Bhai, Sharifa, Sailen Bose, Ravikant, Faruqi, Dheer, Jagdish, Sharma, JaniBhai etc in it.
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Dukh se bhara hua hai dil
Posted on: May 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Hindi film industry, there were many artists – actors, playback singers, lyricists and music directors who after starting their careers soon faded into oblivion as they could not get on a firm footing in the industry. But there were some who remained with the film industry for a long time even though success eluded them. One of such artists was Shankar Dasgupta, playback singer and music director.
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Dil haarne waale aur bhi hain
Posted on: May 6, 2013
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pran, Johnny Walker, Murad, Rehman, Shyama, Rani, Sajjan, Sapru, Shah Agha etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Isi ka naam duniya hai’ (1962) is a film starring Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Mehmood & Sahira etc. A few songs of this movie that I have found on youtube are all picturised on Mehmood and Sahira. Only one song from this film is posted in the blog. For the second song from this movie, I had a choice among three Mehmood songs that I have seen. With careful consideration, I decided on this party song, which is also a piano song.
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Wohi rota hua ek dil
Posted on: May 6, 2013
“Lahore” (1949) was a Jaimini Dewan Production movie. It was produced by Jaimini Dewan and directed by M L Anand. The movie had Karan Diwan, Nargis, Kuldeep Kaur, Pratima Devi, Om Prakash, Gulab, Randhir, Balak Ram etc in it.
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Najariya mein aaiho
Posted on: May 6, 2013
“Nadiya Ke Paar” (1948) was a Filmistan production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Hari Shivdasani, Maya Banerji, S. L. Puri, Samson, Ranibala, Tiwari, David Abraham, Kanta Kumari etc in it.
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this article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the last few days, I have been looking for songs composed by Shyam Sundar, the forgotten music director of 40s and early 50s. Whenever I think of him, the name of another forgotten music director Sajjad Hussain creeps in my mind. If Shyam Sundar was called a genius music director, Sajjad Hussain was called an original music director by none other than Anil Biswas, the ‘Bheeshm Pitaamah’ of Hindi film music. Despite these superlatives against their names, Shyam Sundar and Sajjad Hussain composed music for only 20 and 17 Hindi films respectively in their careers. This works out to on an average 2 films per year for Shyam Sunder (1943 to 1953) and less than 1 film per year for Sajjad Hussain ( 1944 to 1977). One common reason attributed for their musical output not being commensurate with their talents was that both were short tempered and perfectionist to the extent that they were uncompromising which was not to the liking of producers/directors of the films.
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Hindi movie titles are often like comets that visits us at periodical intervals. For instance, the title “Dost” seems to get repeated once every decade. We have had movies with this title in 1944, 1954 and 1974. We did not have a movie of the title “Dost” in 1964, but we had “Dosti” in 1964 !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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