Archive for 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There is very little that I know about the 1953 film titled ‘Hamdard’. Well, besides the basic information of course. The Geet Kosh listings tell us that this film was produced by Asha Biswas, under the banner of Variety Pictures. The film is directed by S Bhagat, and the star cast includes Shekhar, Nimmi, Smriti Biswas, Yashodharat Katju, Ishu Jagirdar, Harish Bhardwaj, Rajan Kapoor, PD Lal, KS Sengar, and Shivraj etc. The film has a total of nine songs, eight of which come from the pen of Prem Dhawan and one is written by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The music is composed by Anil Biswas.
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Nahin boloon nahin boloon
Posted on: April 6, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
TAMASHA (1952) was produced by Ashok Kumar and Savak Vacha under the banner of Bombay Talkies. When the film was conceptualised, both Ashok Kumar and Savak Vacha were contemplating leaving Bombay Talkies after handing over the management to the Workers’ Cooperative. Under the new management, three films – ‘Mashaal’ (1950), ‘Maa’ (1952) and ‘Tamaashaa’ (1952) were produced. Unfortunately, all these films did not get the commercial success plunging the Workers’ Cooperative into serious financial debt. Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Meena Kumari and many others tried to rescue it by offering to work free for its films. The trio – Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand and Meena Kumari and others worked for the banner while making ‘Baadbaan’ (1954). Unfortunately this film also failed miserably at the box office thus bringing down the curtains on Bombay Talkies Limited, the first listed company from Hindi film industry on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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“Suhaagraat” (1948) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Begam Para, Geeta Bali, Maruti etc in it.
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“Neelkamal” (1947) was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor and Madhubala in lead roles. The movie also had Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Shanta Kumari, Baby Indira, Kumar Sahu , Pesi patel, Subhashini etc in it.
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Naiyya dheere dheere jaana
Posted on: April 6, 2013
Sometimes some producers get so obsessed with a story that they devote a good portion of their career to make a movie on that story. For instance, K Asif had planned “Mughal e Azam” as early as 1940s itself and it took him nearly two decades of time and enormous resources to finally bring his dream project to fruition in 1960 with different lead actors than what was originally planned. Likewise, Kamal Amrohi’s “Pakeezaa” was in the making for a decade or more before it finally got completed and released in 1972. By that time the lead actress and the music director of the movie were no longer around.
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Ek nek tabeeyat raaja thha
Posted on: April 6, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era there was a fair exchange of film themes and music between all the centres of film production like Bombay, Lahore, Calcutta, Madras, Poona and Kolhapur( and Hyderabad and Bangalore at a later time). That is why sometimes Bilingual films were made. Madras was not directly interested in making films in Hindi upto 1948,till Vasan’s CHANDRALEKHA-48 had an All India release with over 700 prints, in those days.
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Ye qaafile yaadon ke
Posted on: April 5, 2013
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“Faasle” (1985) was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Rohan Kapoor, Farha Naaz, Deepti Naval, Faarooque Sheikh, Sushama Seth, Raj Kiran, Javed Khan, Huma Khan, Nikita Shah, Damayanti Puri, Daljeet Kaur, Kanwar Ajeet, Alok Nath, Raj Hans, Shakeel, Rajesh Bhatija etc in it.
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Bataao kyaa karoongi main
Posted on: April 5, 2013
“Ek Ke Baad Ek” (1960) was a Raj Kala Production movie. It was directed by Raj Rishi. The movie had Dev Anand, Tarla Mehta, S. K. Prem, Radhakrishan, Hiralal, Ravikant, Sharada, Prabhu Dayal, Madhu Apte etc in it.
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Mujhe na sapnon se behlaao
Posted on: April 5, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The fifth decade of last century (40s) was very significant for Music lovers. It is during this period that along with film music, Non-Film Songs(NFS) also became very popular. Recording of such songs first began in Bengal. In fact many singers started cutting their records for private songs from 1937-38 onwards . The response of the people to such songs was so overwhelming that many new singers started their careers with NFS.
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Ankhiyon ko snaan karaakar
Posted on: April 5, 2013
“Rangeen Raaten” (1956) was an Ambitious Pictures Production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Chand Usmani, Pesi Patel, Rohit, Bhupendra Kapoor etc in it. Yes, it was one of rare movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali had acted together.
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