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“Laila Majnu” (1953) was an All India Production movie. It was directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Nutan and Shammi Kapoor in title roles, with Ratan Kumar, Ulhas, Begum Para, Kammo, Wasti etc also there in supporting roles.
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Morey dwaar khule hain
Posted on: March 25, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had mentioned in one of my earlier write-ups that all the songs from the film ANMOL RATAN (1950) were very rare to get in the 70s even with the individual collectors. Though the film failed miserably at the box office, all the songs from this film were the forgotten ‘ratans’ (gems). We are fortunate that majority of the songs from this film are now available on the internet as audio clips. There are 11 songs in the film of which 5 songs have been discussed in this blog.
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Ek baar muskuraa do
Posted on: March 25, 2013
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently our Mr. Sadanand Kamath has posted on this Blog two superb numbers by Jaganmoy Mitra, better known as Jagmohan Sursagar, together with rich information (and links) on this veritable ocean of melody. They are: O varsha ke pehle baadal from Meghdoot (1945), and a non-filmy song Mat kar saaj-singaar sundari.
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Aa tu aa ab na sata
Posted on: March 25, 2013
“Police” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie. The only thing that I have been able to find about this movie was that it was a Prakash Pictures production. It was produced by Vijay Bhatt. I have no idea about its director and the actors.
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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.
If I were to ask the question ‘what was the common between Shailendra, Jaan Nisar Akhtar and Nyay Sharma’, the obvious answer is that they were lyricists for Hindi film songs during the golden era of Hindi film music. There is one more commonality between them. All of them tried their hands in producing a Hindi film in the 1960s which resulted in great financial strains on them from which they did not fully recover. In fact, after the release of their films, their careers as lyricist was on the downhill and in case of Shailendra, it ended with his untimely death.
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“Naya Kanoon” (1965) was a Manchanda production movie. It was directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Bharat Bhushan, Vyjyantimala, Purnima, Nishi, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Badri Prasad, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Waah re dildaar baanke
Posted on: March 24, 2013
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) was a Bindu Kala Mandir Production. It was produced by B D Kapoor and directed by K Mishra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Ragini, Jayashree Gadkar, Jeevan, Agha, Anwar Hussain, Sajjan, Kamal Mehra, Asit Sen, Kumar, Naazi, Madhumati, Kundan, Samson, Mirza Musharraf, Khurshid, W M Khan, Mirajkar, Mansaram, Tiger, Ameen Sayani, Vishi etc in it.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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Ae dard zara dam le
Posted on: March 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari and Amirbai Karnataki were among the leading female playback singers of 1930s and 40s. Both of them started their filmy careers around 1934-35 and also acted and sang songs in the films on themselves. Curiosity led me to check as to who had sung more Hindi film songs among them. So I checked the number of Hindi film songs sung by Amirbai Karnataki and Rajkumari during their careers from http://www.myswar.com. Since this website gives the details of songs only from the year 1941 onward, it was not possible to get the total number of songs sung by them in their entire filmy careers. Nonetheless, I felt that within this limitation, one should get a fair assessment of their contributions to Hindi film songs. As per these data, Amirbai Karnataki sang a total (solo, duets etc) number of 302 songs while Rajkumari sang a total of 387 songs during 1941 and onward. On this basis, I would guess that Rajkumari may have sung more Hindi film songs then Amirbai Karnataki.
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Mere dil se aa ke lipat gayee
Posted on: March 23, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the Rafi-Asha duet recorded for Neela Akash(1965) but not used in the movie. It is a shame that such a song could not find place in the movie and was relegated to anonymity. Some might say that the other songs used in the film were better than this so this was edged out. But I do not agree.
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