Archive for 2013
Qismat ne hamen majboor kiyaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of this blog.
Long ago during weddings in the family, couple of my aunts who were fond of singing, would start this singing session, among ladies. There were a few peppy songs, but I am remmbering a couple of songs now like ‘chhod baabul ka ghar mohe pi ke nagar’ from Baabul’ (1950) and ‘baalam se milan hogaa sharmaane ke din aaye’ from ‘ Chaudhvi ka chand ‘. They would sing it in chorus in Shamshad Begum style. They probabaly had no inkling that the song from Baabul is a sad song, and song from ‘Chaudhvi ka chand’ is by Geeta Dutt.
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Lo chaand bhi jalne lagaa
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone Production. This movie had Nadia playing a female version of Tarzan. Unlike Tarzan, who gets raised by monkeys, here Nadia (playing Mala) is raised by Lions, no less. :). She has two lion cubs as her companions at childhood and then all three grow up. Watching a grown up Nadia flanked by two grown up lions is a great sight to behold. Our beloved Memsaab has written a wonderful review of this movie here and I keep revisiting this page every time I have to discuss a song from this movie.
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Door kahin is jag se ham tum
Posted on: April 23, 2013
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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 #15
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With the previous post in this series, we stepped into Mukesh’s world of 1947. His popularity and demand continued to increase. In this year, he has recorded 20 songs for nine films. Compare this with 7 songs for five films in 1946. We do recall that 1945 was good year for him, as he struck a chord of good fortune and popularity with the iconic song “Dil Jalta Hai To Jalne De”, and had recorded 8 songs for three films, seven of them for ‘Pehli Nazar’ and ‘Moorti’. So, after a slow year in 1946, Mukesh seems to be coming into his own in 1947.
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Na taaj e shaahi na baadshaahi
Posted on: April 23, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Shirin Farhad’ (1956), is a legendary love story situated in the ancient Persia. Madhu Bala and Pradeep kumar played the title roles. I see Ameeta is also playing a role in the film, even has a song, which is not posted. Total 5 songs from this movie are already posted here.
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Ae ri main to prem deewaani
Posted on: April 23, 2013
When I saw the lyrics of this song from “Jogan” (1950), I thought that this song was discussed long back, but when I checked the list of songs of “Jogan” (1950) appearing in the blog, this song was missing much to my surprise. Then I realised that the song that I was confusing it with was the song Ae ri main to prem deewaani mera dard na jaane koye from “Naubahaar” (1952).
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Aa intezaar hai tera
Posted on: April 23, 2013
“Badi Maa” (1945) was a Praful Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Master Vinayak. The starcast was Noorjahan, Ishwarlal, Yakub, Meenakshi, Sitara Devi etc.
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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.
HAMAARI BAAT (1943) was produced under the banner of Bombay Talkies and directed by M I Dharmsey. Devika Rani and Jairaj were in the lead roles with, David, Shah Nawaz, Mumtaz Ali, Kamta Prasad, Raj Kapoor and Suraiya in supporting roles. This was the last film in which Devika Rani acted. As per http://www.myswar.com, there were 10 songs in the film all being penned by Pandit Narendra Sharma. Anil Biswas was the music director of the film.
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“Kangan” (1971) was a Vikas Chitra Production. It was produced by M B Raj and Jagdish Sharma and directed by K B Tilak. The movie had Ashok kumar,Sanjeev Kumar, Mala Sinha, Chandrima Bhaduri, Shyama, Jeevan, Aruna Irani, Mehmood, Leela Misra, Mridula Rani, Asit Sen, Sadhna Khote, Gummadi, Smita, Baban Lal, Paul Sharma,Irshad Panjtan etc in it.
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Ae shaam ki hawaaon
Posted on: April 22, 2013
“Ek Raat” (1967) was Produced by C V Nair and directed by Rajnath under the banner of East and West Movies. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Simi Garewal, Ravi Kumar, Shyama, Madan Puri, David Abraham, Laxmi Chhaya, Samson, Haroon, Bhagwan Sinha, Bihari, Vasanti, Nazir Kashmiri, C L Shah, Helen etc in it.
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