Archive for 2013
Sau baras par preetam ghar aaye
Posted on: January 9, 2013
“Raami Dhoban” (1953) was a Navkala Production movie. It was direcyted by Indu Kumar. The movie had Jairaj, Nirupa Roy, Ulhas, Trilok Kapoor, Sapru, Ranjana, Kamini Kaushal etc in it.
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Pardesi kyun yaad aata hai
Posted on: January 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAN KI JEET (1944) was produced and directed by W Z Ahmed under the banner of Shalimar Pictures owned by him. Shyam and Nina were in the lead roles. The story of the film was said to be based on Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles’. One of the most popular songs from this film nagri meri kab tak yoon hi barbaad rahegi has been discussed in this blog.
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Akele mein wo ghabraate to honge
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The first time we hear of Khayyaam as a music director is in the 1951 film, ‘Pyaar Ki Baaten’. In this film, he shares the honors of music composition with Bulo C Rani. But certainly, this is not his first film as a music director. He has been active in the industry since 1948, albeit has was using a different name. In 1947-48 when he came to Bombay looking for opportunities as a music director, some producers and friends suggested to him not to use his original name, and so he adopted a pseduonym – Sharma ji. Under this name he composed music for three films, before reverting to his original name with the film, ‘Pyaar Ki Baaten’.
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Main albeli titli
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the decades of 30s and 40s, some of the female singers made it to Hindi films as actors thanks to their ability to sing well. It would appear that in those days, it was more of the singing ability than the acting skills which was the deciding factors for the film producers to pick up the female actors. Some of the prominent singing female actors of that period were Khursheed Bano, Noor Jehan, Kanan Bala, Shanta Apte, Suraiya, Amirbai Karnataki, Rajkumari etc.
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Kyaa jaadoo hai tere paas piyaa
Posted on: January 7, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The Voice of Mukesh #10
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The first five years of Mukesh’s career, from 1941 to 1945 were sketchy, and not very productive. The available records show that he sang 14 songs in six films during these five years. His singing did not capture much attention, and Mukesh was a discouraged man, contemplating to leave Bombay and return home to Delhi. But then in 1945, ‘Pehli Nazar’ happened, under the baton of Anil Biswas. And after the release of ‘Pehli Nazar’, Mukesh’s career was on the up and up.
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Dekho na dekho na
Posted on: January 6, 2013
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The purists among music lovers often like to keep a cut-off for their listening habits. ‘I don’t listen to songs later than this year,’ they often say. I don’t disagree with those cut-offs. There are times when we just don’t want to listen to the cacophony that our music often descends to. But then, like a proverbial ‘keechad me kamal’ a beautiful song pops up among all this noise. The sufiana songs from the present times are meaningful and pleasing to the ear. The songs written by Gulzar and Javed Akhtar, set to tunes by AR Rahman are beautiful and worth listening to again and again.
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“Deedaar e Yaar” (1982) was a Tirupati Pictures Production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Jeetendra, Rekha, Rishi Kapoor, Tina Munim, Nirupa Roy, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deven Verma, Reena Roy etc. in it.
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Aaj koi nahin apna
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Agnipareeksha” (1981) was a B R Films Production movie. It was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Kamal Majumdar. The movie had Amol Palekar, Rameshwari, Parikshath Sahni, Veena, Utpal Dutt, Iftekar, Dr.Sri Raam Lagoo, S.N.Bannerjee, Nana Palsikar, Jagadish Raj, Dinesh Thakur, JankiDass, Prem Sagar, Dev Dutt, Sunil Dhawan, Master Danny, Amol Sen, Pravin Khanna, Maher, Dev Sharma, Sundar Taneja, Satya Banerjee, Heeraji, Navin Kumar, Gaikwad etc in it.
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Tauba tauba meri tauba
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Reshma Aur Shera” (1971) was an Ajanta Arts Production. It was produced and directed by Sunil Dutt. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Rakhee, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayant, Vinod Khanna, Amrish Puri, Padma Khanna, Ranjeet, Sudhir, Sulochana Latkar, Dulari, K N Singh, B.B .Bhalla, Prem Kumar,Naval Kumar, Baby Guddi,Sanjay Dutt,,Om prakash Chopra, Rajindar Pal etc in it.
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Baabul ham tore angna ki chidiyaa
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“College Girl” (1960) was a Rawal Films production. The movie was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Om Prakash, Tabassum, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Nana Palsikar, Randhir, Achala Sachdev, Mohan Choti, Leela Misra, Vinod Sharma, Sarita Devi, Kumud Tripathi, Ravikant, Shyamlal etc in it.
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