Archive for 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is the general belief that there is a hindi film song for every situation. There are also a host of fans of Rafi sahab who believe that there is a Rafi song every possible situation conceivable. But I was astonished to see this song from the film ‘ Hamlet ‘(1954). I saw this song for the first time some days back couldn’t believe it is being sung by the grave diggers. They are digging the grave and singing this happy sounding song talking of ‘badarwa’ ‘purwaiyya’ ‘doliyaa sajaayi’ ‘shaadi rachaayi’ etc. I have seen some songs which are morbid to look at and are playing in the background while a funeral is taking place or even when someone is on the deathbed. But was not expecting to find a song with actual grave digging. This must be unique and one of its kind song. It is true that anything can happen in a Hindi film.
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“Badi Baat” (1944) was directed by Mazhar Khan. If one has to believe the all knowing and all telling sites, who copy from each other are unanimous that this movie had Ulhas in it.
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“Raaz” (1967) was a Sippy Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Babita, I. S. Johar, Khurshid, D. K. Sapru, Kamal Kapoor, Ratnamala, Narmada Shankar, Asit Sen, Meena T., Laxmi Chhaya, Surjeet Bedi, Rahul, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Pandharibai, Harbans Darshan M. Arora etc in it.
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O deewaane chhokre
Posted on: August 31, 2013
“Lambe Haath” (1960) was a D M Movies production. It was directed by Krishna Malik. The movie had Mehmood, Naaz, Daisy Irani, Jagdish Sethi, Nazi, Mridula, Baij Sharma, Brahma Bhardwaj, Rajan Haksar, Fazal, Deepak Kumar, Shakuntala Devi, Moolraj, Babulal, Rafeeq, Shyam Sunder, Mirza, Ketaki Bai, Raj Dutt, Cheenu etc in it.
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“Maashooqa” (1953) was a Chitrakar Production movie. It was directed by Shanti Kumar. The movie had Suraiyya, Mukesh, Agha, Kuldip Kaur, Durga Khote, Amirbai Karnataki etc in it.
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Bheeni bheeni chaandni raat
Posted on: August 31, 2013
“Rimjhim”(1949) was a Hindustan Cine Production movie. It was directed by Ramesh Gupta and Sushr Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Mubarak, Ramola, Mohana, Jankidas, A. Shah, Narmada Shanker, Amir Banu, Mumtaz Ali etc in it.
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Parwaane ho parwaane
Posted on: August 31, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #29
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The tapestry of the fables of love is never compete without the legendary saga of the flame and the moth – much better represented in the Urdu zubaan as Shama aur Parwaana. Somehow, the English equivalents of some of the more profound words and concepts in Hindi and Urdu, simply do not carry the same weight and substance. The English equivalents are a poor excuse to express that which is alien to that language. Shama and Parwaana are an example of such translation dilemmas. There seems to be no adequately authoritative word in the English language to convey the same sentiments in totality.
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Bulaati hai bahaar
Posted on: August 30, 2013
“Begaana” (1963) was produced and directed by Sadashiv J Row Kavi for the banner of Sadashiv Chitra productions. The movie had Supriya Chaudhary, Sailesh Kumar, Dharmendra,Madhavi, Agha(Agha Baig),Manorama, Chandrima Badhuri, Badri Prasad, Rajen Hakser, Babloo, Tarun Bose, Madhuri etc in it.
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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.
This is the 5th song in the “Music Directors sing for other Music Directors” series.
This song has been sung by composer Bulo C Rani, for Music Director Khemchand Prakash, in the film ” Mulaaqaat”-1947.
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