Archive for 2013
Jhoome re jhoome re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Ramanand Sagar released his ‘Aankhen’ in 1968, the film took the box office by storm, and was declared as a blockbuster by the trade journals. Ramanand Sagar bagged the Filmare award for the best director, and the film also got the Filmfare award for color cinematography. The music was hit, with lyrics coming from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi and the music from the baton on Ravi. A film that truly settled Dharmendra’s career on a strong footing. In many ways, the film became a trendsetter.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
KAPOOR Khandaan is called the First family of Bollywood, not for nothing !
Starting with Prithwiraj Kapoor till Kareena and Ranbir, all through the generations, they have been shining in the film industry. This is not just because they belonged to the Kapoor khandaan. In film industry, particularly in the acting field, one can not survive for long, if one has no talent or if he is not doing hard work. One’ s ancestry alone is not acceptable to the Indian audience. This has been proved time and again. For example, Raaj kumar, Raj Babbar, Rajendra Kumar or Shashi Kapoor were successful actors, but what happened to their sons ?
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Bahut mukhtsar hai hamaari kahaani
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a forgotten movie by now. When I decided to discuss a song from this movie, I looked for its details on internet and failed to find much. Then I noticed that a post of this blog is also listed by google as a source of information for this movie. I clicked that link, I found that we in this blog have discussed two songs from this movie and our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has shared information about this movie with us which remains the most comprehensive and detailed information available on this movie on internet. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Nindiya aayi re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Kidar Sharma wrote the lyrics of the song so jaa rajkumari so jaa, he might not have been aware that he wrote the first lori (lullaby) song for a Hindi film. Another thing he did differently was that he wrote the lori lyrics for a male singer-actor (K L Saigal) whereas the lori is traditionally sung by women. This could happen because, as he said in his autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’ (2002), he had in fact written a lori ‘so jaa raj dulari so jaa, so jaa main balihaari so jaa’ especially for his wife Raj Dulari. But K L Saigal fell in love with it and pressurised Kidar Sharma to make it public. It was only after his wife agreed that Kidar Sharma consented to use this lori for the film ‘Zindagi” (1940) by changing ‘raj dulari’ to ‘rajkumari’. This lori sung by K L Saigal became very popular all over India.
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Madhuban mein mat jaa re bhanwra
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Bharthari” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie with hardly any information available on it. Thankfully we have our own inhouse encyclopaedia to look up to in the form of Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about this movie:-
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Panchhi udd jaa
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Darshan” (1941) was directed by Chimanlal Luhar. The movie had Prem Adib, Jyoti, Bhudo Advani etc in it.
Two songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the third song from this movie. This song is sung by Sheetal Ghosh. From the name of the singer, I expected to listen to a sweet female voice. But I found myself listening to a masculine voice instead. 🙂
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Dama dam mast kalandar
Posted on: April 17, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Details and translation of this song are by Sudhir
Pre-Partition, India had many many legendary singers-Male and Females. After Partition, some singers migrated to the new country-Pakistan. Singing legend Noorjehan also went to Pakistan. Now India had Lata and Pakistan had Noorjehan.
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Itna to bata de ae dil
Posted on: April 17, 2013
The popularity of characters such as Tarzan shows that there is a child within all human beings, no matter how much they grow up physically. The fact that there have been so many movies on the theme of characters like Tarzan and Zimbo means that this theme must have paid off for the makers of these movies.
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Chaand nikla sitaare dheeme padey
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Ten O’ Clock” (1958) was a Niagara Pictures production movie. It was directed by Jugal Kishore. The movie had Suresh, Geeta Bali, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Yakoob, Mirza Musharraf, Maruti,Daisy Irani etc in it.
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Bahaar aane ko hai
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Sultaan e Aalam” (1956) was produced by H P Mehra. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Heeralal, Kuldip Kaur etc in it.
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