Archive for 2013
Shaam ke deepak jaley
Posted on: April 10, 2013
This article is wtitten by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is such a frustrating exercise to get information on a poet-lyricist whom I admire for his light romantic and neo-devotional lyrics of Hindi non-filmy songs. Yes, many connoisseurs of Hindi NFSs may have correctly guessed him as Madhukar Rajasthani. I got familiar with his name only because of Vividh Bharati. It is surprising that not much information about him is available on the internet or in any other published materials. There was a time when at least one of the songs written by him used to be played in an early morning programme of devotional songs or in the afternoon programme of sugam sangeet (light semi-classical songs).
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Ik sitaar ke do taar
Posted on: April 10, 2013
“Garib” (1942), by now a forgotten movie, was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Surendranath, Veena Kumari, Rose, Agha etc in it.
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Meri aankhen banin deewaani
Posted on: April 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The magic of Jagmohan’s NFS does not end, it is for ever.
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Chakkoo chhuriyaan tez karaa lo
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Zanjeer” (1973) was produced and directed by Prakash Mehra. the movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Badhuri, Sanjana, Nandita Thakur, Goga Kapoor, Bindu, Ajit, Keshto Mukherjee, Pran, Iftekar,Randhir, Gulshan Bawra, Sanjana,Ram Mohan, B.B.Bhalla,Yunus Parvez, Om Prakash, Purnima, M.Rajan, Bhushan Tiwari, Gulloo, Sushil, Tiger,Kirti Sethi, D.K.Sapru, Amrit Pal, Master Rajesh, Krishan Dhawan, Maqbool, Javed Khan, Dhanraj, Yograj, Makarnai, Satyen Kapoo, Ashalata Wabgaonkar, Mac Mohan, Ram.P.Sethi, Indrani Mukherjee etc in it.
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Jawaan Mohabbat jahaan jahaan hai
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Jawaan Mohabbat” (1971) was a Roopanjali Production movie. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Krishan Kumar and directed by Bhappi Sonie. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Pran, Dhumal, Shashikala, Sarika, Rajendra Nath, Raj Mehra, Madhavi, Daisy Irani, Sujata Bakshi, Krishan Dhawan, Madhumati, Ashwani Kumar, Kumud Tripathi etc in it.
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Aa mere galey lag jaa o jaane jaana
Posted on: April 9, 2013
When one talks of a movie called “Baazi”, one normally means the Dev Anand- Geeta Bali starrer of 1952. It turns out that there was another movie with the same title 32 years later. This movie “Baazi” (1984) was a Dharmendra Rekha starrer and it did not have much impact at the box office.
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Meri pyaari Bindu
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is my favourite comic song from Padosan (1968). It is simple and still so funny.
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Kyaa paaya duniya ne
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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Tu ishq se darr
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
GUNAAH (1953) was produced under the banner of Ambitious Pictures and directed by Kidar Sharma. The star cast included Jagdev, Geeta Bali, Vijay Laxmi, Jankidas, Pratima Devi, A S Gyani, Pesi Patel, Baby Naaz, Tun Tun etc. The film had seven songs of which two songs have been covered in the blog. All the songs were written by Kidar Sharma. Of the 7 songs, Snehal Bhatkar composed six songs and Roshan composed one ghazal “mere khayaalon mein aake gale laga jaa mujhe”.
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