Archive for August 2014
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“Nateeja” (1947) was a Bombay Talkies movie. It was directed by Najam Naqvi. The movie had Shamim Bano, Yakub, Jillo, Radhika, Maya Devi etc in it.
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Aa jaa re aa jaa
Posted on: August 13, 2014
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In February 1958, an Italian song – Nel blu Dipirito di blu (English: In the sky painted blue), popularly known worldwide as ‘Volare Song’ become very popular. The song was written and sung by Domenico Modungno. This song was chosen as Italian entry to the European Song Contest, 1958 where it got 3rd place. The song received two awards at the First Grammy Award, 1959 – (i) Record of the Year and (ii) Song of the Year. Due to its popularity, the song was recorded in many languages such as English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Finnish, Portuguese etc. The song was sung by more than 50 performers all over the world which included some of the greatest names like Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Cliff Richard, Gypsy Kings etc. In 1958, Dean Martin included the half version of the song in English for his LP ‘This is Dean Martin’. The combined sales of all versions of the song exceeded 22 million copies worldwide making it one of the all time popular songs. (Source: Wikipedia). The Video link of the original Italian ‘Volare Song’ is here. I also like the English-Italian version of the song sung by Dean Martin which is here.
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“Bade Sarkaar” (1957) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Filmistan. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, Vijaylaxmi, Agha, durga Khote, Sajjan, K N Singh, Gope, Kanu Roy, Rajkumar, Indu Paul, Ramavtaar, Bhujbal Singh, Vijay Chaudhary, Harbans, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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Chanda maama boley apne
Posted on: August 12, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
MAYANAGARI film world can be quite generous to some and extremely harsh to others. Generous to the extent that there are fabulous rewards in it for those who get the right breaks, while it can be quite mean for the people behind the scenes, who help others to succeed.
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Jawaani jhoomti hai dulhan ban ke
Posted on: August 12, 2014
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“Bade Sarkaar” (1957) was directed by Kishore Sahu for Filmistan. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Kamini Kaushal, Vijaylaxmi, Agha, Durga Khote, Sajjan, K N Singh, Gope, Kanu Roy, Rajkumar, Indu Paul, Ramavtaar, Bhujbal Singh, Vijay Chaudhary, Harbans, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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“Tin Tin Tin” (1959) was directed by B J Patel for Kirit Films. This obscure B grade movie had Caeser (Dog), Neelofar, Samar Roy, Mirajkar, Habeeb, Rajan Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Devchand, Moolchand, Bhudo Advani, Abdul Sattar, Tuntun etc in it.
Seeing that a dog played an important role, I am keen to find out more about this movie. 🙂 Unfortunately the prints of this movie seem to have been lost with the passage of time.
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Ever since the talkies came into being, Shakespeare’s plays have been one of the most favourites literary sources that have been used in Hindi films after suitably adapting them. The first talkie film adapted from Shakespeare’s play ‘Hamlet’ is stated to be ‘Khoon Ka Khoon’ (1935) directed by Sohrab Modi. Shakespeare’s plays which have been the favourite with Hindi film industry beside ‘Hamlet’ are ‘Macbeth’, ‘Othello’ and ‘Romeo & Juliet’.
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Chandni Raaten – Song no. 3
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‘Have you ever seen such stars?’ she asked.
‘You asked me that last night. You need some new material.’
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Sach keh den gar bura na maano
Posted on: August 11, 2014
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
A common adage in our world is that wisdom comes with age.
A loose Hindi equivalent of this is the statement “ye baal dhoop mein safed nahin hue” (this hair didn’t just grey due to sunshine). The implication is that grey hair (a sign of ageing) equates to wisdom.
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