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Aayiye bahaar ko ham baant len
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Taqdeer” (1967) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by A Saleem. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shalini Mardholkar, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalaal, Kaajal, Subhash Ghai, Ajay Kumar, Jalal Agha, Susheel Kumar, Champak Laala, Dinesh Kumar, Dilip Dutt, Usha, Namita Guha, Master Shahid, Lalita Kumari, Indira Bansal, Narbada Shankar, Tuntun, Sunder, Salim, Amir Ali etc in it.
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Chaahe koi mujhe bhoot kahe
Posted on: March 20, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During the early phase of Talkie films, all other regional Film producers, particularly the Southern ones looked up to Hindi films to provide them with ‘ Inspiration ‘.
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Soch rahi thhi kahoon na kahoon
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) was a Parbat Films Production. It was produced by Hardeep Chatrath and Shyam Dhawan and directed by Bhappi Soni. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Dhumal, David Abraham, Krishan Dhawan, Rashid Khan, Bir Sakuja, Iqbal Singh, Tun Tun, Mumtaz Begum, Bela Bose, Radhika Sarathkumar, Sulochana Latkar, Reeta Roy, Madan Kenny, Kewal Kapoor, Mohan Choti etc in it.
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Khel re khilaune
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Dashavatar”(1951) was a J K Films Production. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Niranjan Sharma, Tabassum etc in it.
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Mere chhail chhabeele
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Neki Aur Badi” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Geeta Bali, Pesi Patel, Nazira, Madhubala, Kidar Sharma, Uma Dutt etc in it.
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Jis raat ke khwaab aaye
Posted on: March 19, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular cotributor to this blog.
The name of Habba Khatoon, the Kashmiri poetess may not be familiar to many people. This name became familiar to me only sometime in 1987 when Muzzafar Ali ( of Umrao Jaan fame) announced his plan to make a film on the life of Habba Khatoon. Dimple Kapadia was taken for the title role with Vinod Khanna in the role of the first husband of Habba Khatoon. The title of the film was changed to ‘Zooni’, Habba Khatoon’s maiden name. The lyrics were to be written by Shahryar and Khayyam was to give the music direction. Muzzafar Ali believed that Zooni’s life was the powerful vehicle to project the real Kashmir. After nearly 20 months of shooting in Kashmir, the film was shelved in 1989 probably due to the rise of militancy in the Kashmir valley. I got my hand on a small video clip of the film on YT uploaded by Basheer Ali who was the Director of Photography for the film. From the content of the clip which also has a part of the song ‘rukh-e-dildaar deedam daras ko aaye preetam’ picturised on Dimple Kapadia, it appears that it was made as a part of marketing the film for international audience. The video clip is here.
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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.
MUGHAL-E-AZAM-1960 was a milestone movie in the annals of Hindi films. Almost all the songs of this movie became famous and popular too. Many stories floated around about the happenings during the making of the film. Long articles appeared in papers and even a few books were published on this Epic film. Even today-after 53 years- the songs of Mughal e Azam are heard with interest by young and old alike.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Vintage Kishore Kumar. And I thank Shekhar Vaishnav ji, who is connected to our blog from Sydney. Thanks for the reminder for this song.
The fun songs by Kishore Da are a class apart by themselves. There is nothing at all in this world to compare them to. And during the 50s and 60s, when Kishore Da also acted in many films, there is a number of very wonderful songs that he has sung and also performed on the screen. An accomplished actor that he was, he has done the best interpretations of his own singing, and has performed his own songs, as no other actor can even consider it possible. Each one of the pictures that he acted in, contain fantastic gems that are superb both from the singing as well as from the performance aspects.
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“Aurat” (1953) was a Verma Films Production movie. It was produced by Munshi Ram Verma and directed by Bhagwandas Verma. The movie had Premnath, Bina Rai, Purnima, Ullhas, Hiralal, Roopmala, Nazirabai, Mirabai, Devkishan, Mirza, S. Pratap, Shanta Patel, Nazir Kashmiri, Rajkishore etc in it.
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