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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering Anand Bakshi on the anniversary of his passing away.
Anand ji, a most prolific songwriter that this industry has seen. His claim to fame is having penned more than 3,500 songs for nearly 640 films. A writing career that lasted for more than four decades, and his creations continued to appear in films as late as last year (2012), ten years after his passing away from this world. In his lifetime, he was nominated for no less than 40 times for the Filmfare awards, which sounds like almost one nomination every year of his active career from 1957 to 2002. That in itself may be a record that no one may be close to in the industry. He won this award four times.
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Jaana na dil se door
Posted on: March 30, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During 1948-50, Dilip Kumar-Kamini Kaushal was a much talked about lead pair having worked in ‘Shaheed’ (1948), ‘Nadiya Ke Paar’ (1949), ‘Shabnam’ (1949) and ‘Aarzoo’ (1950). All these films were successful at the box office. Then why is it so that this successful lead pair did not work together in any films after ‘Arzoo’ (1950)? There is a story behind it but before that let me share Kamini Kaushal’s profile in brief which I found unusual and interesting. Some highlights of her profile including the reason for not working with Dilip Kumar after ‘Arzoo’ (1950) are given below:
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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.
There is a child in every man. That is why fantasy, magic, mystery, puzzles and games are loved by adults too. To satisfy man’s curious and child-like nature, many literary creations were undertaken by well known authors from time immemorial.
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Roop ye tera jisne banaaya
Posted on: March 29, 2013
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“Sanjog” (1972) was Produced by Mohan Segal and directed by S S Balan. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Mala Sinha, Aruna Irani, Johnny Walker, Ramesh Deo, Malika, Madan Puri, Nazir Hussain, Sulochana Chatterji, Keshto Mukherjee, Jagdish Raaj, C S Dubey, Master Ratan, Chandrima Bhaduri, Indrani, Baby Indra
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Bharosa kar liya jis par
Posted on: March 29, 2013
“Prabhat” (1973) was a Mukul Enterprises movie. It was produced by Ram Dayal and directed by Sikandar Khanna. The movie had Zaheeda, Jaya Kaushalya, Shyama, Roopesh Kumar, Kamal Kapoor, Sunder, Birbal, Zohara Khatoon, Krishan Dhawan, Pranshankar, Arjun Aosare, V.Gopal, Aarthi, Pinchoo Kapoor, Rajan Haksar, Hangama, Kamal Deep, Sujata, Narbada Shankar, Dulari, Gulshan Bawra, Nandita Thakur, Baldev Khosa, Pachhi, Asha Chandra, Dinesh Hingoo, Omi, Habib, Nisha, Ameeta Sinha, Sonika, Malini, Charanjeet, Neerja etc in it.
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Jaane chaman shola badan
Posted on: March 29, 2013
“Gumnaam” (1965), based on Agatha Christie’s novel, “And then there were none”, was a Ptithvi Pictures production movie. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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When I had watched “Mother India” (1957) for the first time during late 1970s/ early 1980s, I did not realise that the movie had so many songs in it. I throught that the movie have about five or six songs in it. As it is, we have already discussed as many as ten songs from this movie in the blog and there are some more songs still left to be discussed.
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Udaasiyon mein nazar kho gayi
Posted on: March 29, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Majrooh Sulatanpuri’s filmy career as a lyricist started with ‘Shah Jehan’ (1946) under the music direction of Naushad. In the same year, he also wrote lyrics for ‘Keemat’ (1946) for which Naushad was the music director. It was only after the success of ‘Andaz’ (1949) that Majrooh Sultanpuri got his foothold in Hindi film industry. Unfortunately, this success was short lived as he was arrested in 1949 for his anti-establishment poems. He was given an option of either to apologise or face two years of prison. He opted for the later. At the time of his arrest, he was writing lyrics for the film ‘Aarzoo’ (1950) and it was his first collaboration with the music director Anil Biswas. This film also became a hit and all the songs including the iconic song ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal became very popular.
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Prem karat bann mein
Posted on: March 29, 2013
The first Hindi Tarzan movie was “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). In this movie John Cawas played Tarzan and Jane was played by Gulshan. This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. Other important actors in the movie were Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc.
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