Archive for May 2016
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“Abhimaan”(1957) was directed by Mahesh Kaul for Filmistaan Limited, Bombay. The movie had Ameeta, Shekhar, Chand Usmani, Mehmood, Nazeer Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, Shakuntala, Sheila Vaz, Vitthaldas Panchotiya, Indira Bansal, Kusum Thakur, Ramavtaar, Yakub etc in it.
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Main choron ki raani hoon
Posted on: May 31, 2016
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#the Decade of Seventies – 1971 – 1980 #
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# Bhoole-Bisre Geet # 37 # Composer – R.D.Burman #
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My memories of ‘Summer vacations’ in my younger days mainly revolve around playing cricket, reading story books, and watching movies.
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Fasl e bahaar aa gayi
Posted on: May 31, 2016
Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 40
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MOHABBAT KI JEET (1943) was produced under the banner of Girdhar Bahaar Productions and it was directed by Ramanlal Desai. The star cast included Nadia, Navinchandra, Leela Pawar, S Nazir, Shaqir, Agha, Munshi Kanzar, Vasantrao Pehlwan etc. From the star cast it can be safely assumed that the film belonged to the genre of stunt/action. I have no idea about the story of the film. But Nadia being the heroine in the film, one can expect that the story of the film would revolve around her role of striking out the forces of evil and restore goodness to the society. She would generally attain this by doing spectacular stunts and acrobatics which would please the front benchers in the theatres.
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s -39
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BETI (1941) was produced under the banner of Ranjit Moveitone and it was directed by Jayant Desai. The star cast included Khursheed Bano, Aroon Ahuja, Vasanti, E. Billimoria, Ghory, Khatoon, Kesri, Bhagwandas, Rewashankar etc. A gist of the story of the film which has been culled out from the review of the film published in the March 1942 issue of ‘Filmindia’ magazine is given below:
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s -38
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PRARTHANA (1943) was produced under the banner of Minerva Movietone and it was directed by Sarvottam Badami. The star cast included Motilal, Jahanara Kajjan, Sabita Devi, K N Singh, Nimbalkar, Ghulam Hussein, Sadat Ali, Abu Bakar etc. There were 10 songs in the film and five of them were rendered by Jahanara Kajjan. All the songs penned by Dr Safdar Aah Sitapuri were set to music by Saraswati Devi. The main features of all the songs were that they were all based on Hindustani classical raagas.
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Man ko le gaya kaun sakhi ree
Posted on: May 28, 2016
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Forgotten Melodies of the 1940s – 37
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Most readers of the Blog may recall the high publicity blitz that preceded the release of Hema Malini’s first Hindi film ‘Sapnon Ka Saudagar’. In the publicity, she was referred to as ‘dream girl’. The film failed at the box office but thereafter Hema Malini’s Hindi film career was firmly launched and established.
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“Meenaar”(1954) was directed by Hemen Gupta. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Bina Roy, Pran, Sheela Ramani, Pratima Devi, Chandrashekhar, S Nazir etc in it.
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Ello ello jee sanam ham aa gaye
Posted on: May 25, 2016
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Today’s song for discussion is from a film which is actually…according to some people…”out of Syllabus” for me. The film is Andaz Apna Apna – 1994 and the lovely duet is sung by Vicky Mehta and Behroze Chatterjee.
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Raat rangeeli gaaye re
Posted on: May 22, 2016
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.
The decade of the 1950’s saw meteoric rise of O P Nayyar quickly going to the Top within 4 years after his first film Aasmaan-52. He also had another honour. The opening tune of one of the songs of his first film ( pom pom pom baaja boley) Aasmaan-52 was used as the signature tune for Binaca geetmala program of Radio Ceylon.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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