Archive for 2013
Maula mere le le meri jaan
Posted on: April 26, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most of us have seen this movie ‘Chak De India’ made by Yashraj films and directed by Shimit Amin. There is no way to avoid seeing this on T.V. as it is there at least once a month on a weekend on some movie channel or the other. This was I think the Shah Rukh Khan response to Amir Khan-Jhamu sugandh oscar nominated ‘Lagaan’. The logic being whatever Amir Khan can do, SRK can do even better. Once upon a time the healthy competition between these two was invigorating. It gave us some fine films to see and enjoy.
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“Sabse Bada Rupaiyya” (1976) was a Balaji Kalamandir Production movie. It was produced by Mehmood and directed by S Ramnathan. The movie had Mahmood, Vinod Mehra, Mousami Chatterjee, Farida Jalal, Jeevan,Sulochana Latkar, Nivedita, Madhu, ChandraShekhar, Agha, Mukri, Sunder,Randhir, Asit Sen, Keshto Mukherjee, Anwar Ali, Sheikh, Bhushan Tiwari, Babban, Nausir Khatau, Janki Das, Polson, Mulchand, Amir Ali, Narbada Shankar, Ghosh, Saigal, Chavan, Chand, Somender, Parikh, Badshah, Rachna etc in it.
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“Kachche Dhaage” (1973) was produced and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Kabir Bedi, Mousami Chatterjee, Sona, Zeb Rehman, Ritesh, Master Bhagwan, Nirupa Roy, Tun tun, Ratnamala, Trilok kapoor, K N Singh, Randhir, Murad, Jagdish Raj, Dev Kumar, Nawab, Habib, Ashwani Kumar, Gurbachan Singh, Purnima etc in it.
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“Paataal Pari” (1957) was a Sardar Pictures Production. It was directed by S P Bakshi. The movie had Jairaj, Shakila, Kumkum, Sheikh, Yashodhara Katju, Habib, Tiwari etc in it.
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Ek tu jo mila
Posted on: April 26, 2013
“Himalay Ki God Mein” (1965) was a Shri Prakash Pictures production. It was produced by Shankar Bhai Bhatt and directed by VIjay Bhatt. The movie had Manoj kumar, Mala Sinha, Shashikala, Achala Sachdev, Jayant, Kanhaiyyalal, Mukri,JeevanKala, David Abraham, D K Sapru, Rita Pandit, S K Prem, Keshav Rana, Ajit, Sitaram, Mohan Jerry, Harbans etc in it.
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Chori ho gayi raat nain ki nindiya
Posted on: April 26, 2013
“Ishaara” (1964) was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Vyjyantimala, Jayant, Subbiraj, Azra, Pratima Devi, Agha, Pran, Shammi, Sajjan, Murad, Praveen Paul, Hari Shivdasani, Kesari, Raja Amrohi, Ruby Meyers (Sulochana), Brahm Bhardwaj, Prem Sagar, Amrit Rana, Ravikant etc in it.
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“Do Dulhe” (1955) was an United F Art production movie. It was directed by K J Mahadevan. The movie had Sajjan, Shyama, Agha, Lalita Pawar, Vanjana, David Abraham, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Kanhaiyalal, B. M. Vyas, Ishwarlal etc in it.
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Laagi more man ki o saajna
Posted on: April 26, 2013
“Shabaab” (1954) was a musical extravaganza and some people in fact regard it as Naushad’s greatest music for a movie, which is high praise indeed.
The movie had fifteen songs in all. Fourteen of them have been discussed in the blog so far.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is ‘ Desert ‘ song no. 9. I have not really planned these posts serial or order, just writing and sending posts for whichever song is found and inspiring some writing.
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Wo jo roothhen to manaana chaahiye
Posted on: April 25, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most of us are aware that a ghazal is a series of couplets (she’rs), each one being independent of others. In fact each she’r is a poem by itself. So theoretically, she’rs written by different poets (shaayars) can be woven to make it a ghazal. This is easier said than done as there are other parameters to make it a traditional ghazal. Normally, there are five essential aspects of a traditional ghazal. They are
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