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Aankh milaane ke liye
Posted on: June 25, 2013
“Chandan” (1958) was a Dossi Films production. It was directed by M V Raman. The movie had Nutan, Shyama, Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Karan Dewan, Kamla Laxman, Achla Sachdev, Raj Mehra, Randhir, Pran, K. N. Singh, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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“Shabistaan” (1951) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by B Mitra. The movie had Shyam, Naseem Bano, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Bhujbal Singh, Murad, Sapru 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 10th, last and final song in the series “Lata with uncommon singers”.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a sequel to the Bachpan ka incident that I related the last time. My dear Peevesie reminded me of this and urged me to relate it also. It is a sweet memory which is referred to by my dad to her every time the song or scene of a particular movie comes on TV. And then we all have a good time thinking of those days.
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“Haseena Maan Jaayegi” (1968) was a Mangatram Films Production. It was produced by Indu Bhushan and directed by Prakash Mehra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Babita, Ameeta, Johnny Walker, Manmohan Krishna, Niranjan Sharma, Yunus Pervez, Hari Shivdasani, Bhola, B. B. Bhalla, Amar, Sapru, Brahm Bhardwaj, Raj Joshi, Sadiq, Hari Kapoor etc in it.
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Humne jalwaa dikhaaya to jal jaaoge
Posted on: June 24, 2013
“Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya” (1966) was a Rawal Films productions. B L Rawal was the producer, C L Rawal was the director and G L Rawal was the lyricist of the movie. The movie had an impressive starcast consisting of names like Dharmendra, Nutan, Rehman, Bela Bose, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Mumtaz Begum, Jeevan, Randhir, Sunder, TunTun, Niranjan Sharma, Ravikant, JeevanKala, Madhumati, Pal Sharma, Brahm Bhardwaj 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.
Lata Mangeshkar has sung for almost all the top music directors of the golden era of Hindi film music, the major exception being O P Nayyar. She has sung many popular and melodious songs for music directors like Anil Biswas, Naushad, C Ramchandra, Husnlal-Bhagatram, S D Burman, Roshan, Madan Mohan, Shankar-Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Salil Chaudhary etc. But her most talked about collaborations even today are that with C Ramchandra and Madan Mohan. And rightly so as there was something special about her songs under their batons. While her songs with C Ramchandra were mostly reflected the romance with ‘feel good’ factor, with Madan Mohan they were mostly associated with ‘heart felt’ pensive mood genre.
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Adaa qaatil nazar barq e bala
Posted on: June 23, 2013
“Ghazal” (1964) was a Nataraj Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Ved-Madan. The movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Nazima, Raj Mehra, Lotan, Mohsin Abdullha, Prathima Devi, Mridula Rani, Jugnu etc in it.
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Ik aisa geet sunaavo
Posted on: June 23, 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 #21
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The year 1947 was very good for Mukesh, till then the best so far in his seven years career. In this year, he recorded a total of 21 songs in 10 films. We have so far covered 17 of his songs from this year, including all the songs from the film ‘Do Dil’ in which he sang as many as six songs.
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