Archive for 2013
Mere geeton ka singaar ho tum
Posted on: February 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Khayyam is one of the music directors of Hindi film industry who made a significant contribution in propagating the NFSs. By his own admission, he had started declining most of the offers for Hindi films’ music direction during late 50s and early 60s as he did not feel comfortable in working in such films in which interference of producers and distributors in music direction had become the order of the day. It was during this period that he devoted his time and energy in composing some of the finest NFSs especially with Talat Mehmood and Mohammed Rafi.
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Chaand tu yahaan hai
Posted on: February 23, 2013
“Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan” (1961) was a Sadashiv Production movie. It was directed by Sadashiv Rao Kavi. The movie had Sailesh Kumar, Balraj Sahni, Meena Kumari, Seema, Master Aziz, Salvi, Sulochana, Ratnamala, Om Prakash, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Aaja aaja aaja re balam
Posted on: February 23, 2013
“Aarti” (1962) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Peace Kanwal, Jagirdar, Rajendranath, Vijaya Choudhry, Surekha, Niranjan Sharma, Ramesh Deo, Chandrima Bhaduri, Keshto Mukherjee etc in it.
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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.
My browsing through non-filmy songs on the internet for the last few months have been like a nostalgic journey in the down memory lane. Some of the NFSs I have listened to in the recent period took me back to 60s and 70s when I had heard those on the radio. I had completely forgotten some of them until I rediscovered them on the internet. My latest rediscovery of a non-fllmy ghazal is less than 24 hours old but I have already listened to it umpteen times and still listening. This Shakeel Badayuni’s ghazal is ‘nazar nawaz nazaaron mein jee nahin lagtaa’ sung by Shanti Hiranand, a well known classical vocalist and a disciple of Mallika-e-Ghazal Begum Akhtar. I has heard this ghazal many times in the 60s on the radio but had completely forgotten it until I came across the audio clip of this ghazal again.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1976 film ‘Aarambh’ may not be a very well known film, but it does carry a unique distinction. It remains the only Hindi film for which the music has been scored by the famous Anand Shankar.
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Uff ye mausam khushnuma
Posted on: February 22, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Secrecy, Puzzles, riddles, Mystery and fantasy are the initiators of curiosity in Human Mind. The mind dreams of the things it wishes, but can not do and knows that it can not do. That is where the seeds of Action films and stunts are sown.
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Mitwa laut aaye ri
Posted on: February 22, 2013
“Sangeet Samrat Tansen” (1962) was a Sur Sagar Chitra production. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Anita Guha, Sabita Chatterjee, Kumar, Mukri, David Abraham, Prem Sagar, Sapru, S N Tripathi etc in it.
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Ek do teen ho to karoon aitbaar
Posted on: February 22, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have so far seen three films produced and directed by Roop Kishore Shorey – ‘Ek Thhi Ladki’ (1949), ‘ Dholak’ (1951) and ‘Ek Do Teen’ (1953) and I relished them wholeheartedly. He was known in his hay days as ‘King of Comedy’ as most of his films were based on light situational comedies. There was no gaudiness in his comedy films as the comedy emanated from a ‘self goal’ that is, the characters in his films laughed on themselves rather than taking pleasure in laughing on others.
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Khushi ka zamaana gaya
Posted on: February 22, 2013
“Chhoti Bhabhi” (1950) was a Filmkar production movie. It was directed by Shanti Kumar. The movie had Karan Dewan, Nargis, Shyam, Kuldeep, Gulabi, Shyama, Suraiya Choudhary, Yakub, Johar, Tabassum etc in it.
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