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So jaa saloney so jaa
Posted on: March 11, 2013
“Pathan” (1962), a by now obscure movie was a Madhubala Pictures private limited production. It was directed by Ataullah Khan. The movie had Premnath, Mumtaz, Siddhu, Niranjan Sharma, Iftekhar, Jugnu, Bhagwan, Achala Sachdev etc in it.
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“Room no. 9” (1946) must be among one of the most obscure Hindi movies by now. The movie as well as its songs have been forgotten with time. From the little information that I have been able to dig up about this movie, it seems that this movie was directed by Vedi (?). The movie had Shyam, Geeta, Nizami, K N Singh, Saroj Borkar 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.
A few days back, I came across a song ‘taqdeer ne hansa ke hamen phir rulaa diyaa’ from the film ‘SHAHNAAZ (1948). The song was composed and sung by Ameerbai Karnataki. Until now, I had not heard the name of the film. In fact, except for Ameerbai Karnataki and Mohammed Rafi, most of other names associated with this film are new to me.
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Sajan le jaayega tujh ko ghar
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Gaban” (1966) was a B J Production movie. It was produced by B N Sonthalia and R K sorel and directed by Krishan Chopra and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Sadhana, Zeb Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Anwar Hussain, Badri Prasad, Leela Mishra, P. Kailash, Pratima Devi, Kamal Kapoor, Misra, Sarita Devi, B. B. Bhalla, Brahm Bhardwaj, Surekha Pandit, R K Soral, Ravikant, Kailash Kumar, Sushil Kumar, Sandeep, Mohsin Abdullah, Haroon, Laxmi Arya, R S Dubey, Meenakshi, Saroj Banerjee, Mehar Banu, C. S. Dubey, Assi Dutt, Mukund Banerjee, Deenanath, Shekhchand, Hakeem Lateef, Ranjit, Polson, Hashmat Rai, Rajiv D Grover, Bela Agha, Baldev Mehta, Ratan Gaurang, Abdul, Krishan Chopra, Moolchand etc in it.
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Bhoot bunglaa
Posted on: March 10, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the only song left from the film Bhoot Bungla (1965) on this blog. The title song of the film is unique in many ways. This features the first song by the composer himself. Not only does he sing but also act in this song. He plays the main lead, Mehmood’s best friend, which he also was in the real life.
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Tim tima tim tim tima tim taare
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Har Har Mahadev” (1950) was produced and directed by Jayant Desai. the movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy in lead roles with Misra, Durga Khote, Shanta Kanwar, Jeevan, Niranjan Sharma, Vicky Kapoor etc also there in the movie.
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Aa jawaan aa aaj beet jaayegi
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Sawaal” (1943), by now an obscure movie, was directed by Niranjan. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Radha Rani, Agha, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Man re mat ro mat ro
Posted on: March 10, 2013
“Prem Sangeet” (1943) was a Shalimar Pictures production. It was directed by W Z Ahmad. Th movie had Jairaj, Neena, Tiwari etc in it. Very little information is available on internet about this obscure movie.
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Aarti karo Shankar ki
Posted on: March 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAHASHIVRATRI greetings to all readers !
In India all our social customs, traditions, calenders and Festivals are linked to Agriculture, because basically,even today, we are an Agricultural country. With almost over 70% population (as against 85% in 1947) living in Villages and depending on farming, even in these days. No wonder if all our major events have an Agricultural base.
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