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Taata tiyo taataa tiyo
Posted on: March 9, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pati Patni (1966) was R D Burman’s fifth released film, after his debut in Chhote Nawab (1961). Most probably his close friend Mehmood procured this project for him as well.
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“Gumnaam” (1965) was based on Agatha Christie’s suspense novel “And then there were none”. And it must be said that this Hindi movie version added its own flavour to the story tailormade for its target audience. I am not sure that the original novel had a butler quite like Mehmood, for instance.
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Hauley hauley jiyaa doley
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Kaise Kahoon” (1964) was a Vrindawan Pictures production movie. It was directed by Atmaram. The movie had Biswajeet, Nanda, Om Prakash, Durga Khote, Naaz, Geetanjali, Nimbalkar, Manmohan Krishna, Asit Sen, Rehman etc in it.
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- In: "Aankh" song | "Get together" song | Asha Bhonsle - Usha Mangeshkar duet | Asha Bhonsle songs | Dance song | Duet | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Rajesh Khanna present (without lip syncing) | Rajesh Khanna songs | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1967 | Synchronised dance | Usha Mangeshkar songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) was produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. This movie had Rajesh Khanna,Asha Parekh, Premnath, Laxmi Chhaya, Bela Bose, Azra, Manorama, Anwar Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Sulochana Latkar, Padma Khanna, P.Jairam, Madan Puri, Jaishree Gadkar, Shivraj, Ram Avtar, Rajinder Singh, Kanu Roy, Dhanna, Saral Kumar, Nazir Kashmiri, Jeri, R.P.Kapoor, Indira Bansal, Malti Bai, Antenet, Fahmida, Narbada Shanker, Uma Khosla, Krishan Nanda, Rajendra Nath, Baby Nuzhat, Mansoor Khan etc in it.
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Wo chaand ban muskuraa rahe hain
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj Kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Aa aa aankhon mein aa
Posted on: March 9, 2013
“Nargis” (1946) is an obscure movie by now. Hardly any information is available about this movie. This movie had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi etc in it from the little information I can gather from internet.
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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.
In olden times there was a saying that one must visit Kashi(Benaras/Varanashi) before one dies.(There is an old saying in Western India ” Surat nu Jaman ane Kashi nu Maran”,which means,in your life you must eat food in Surat and Die in Kashi-both the best options).
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Hamen maar gayee re
Posted on: March 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regulkar contributor to this blog.
Folk music has played an important role in popularising Hindi film songs. The films’ producers and more so the music directors knew that folk music based film songs bring instant connectivity with the cine goers especially in the semi-urban and rural areas. The beats and rhythms of most of the folk music are good inspirations for music directors to customise the Hindi film songs accordingly. In the early years of Hindi film music following the advent of talkies, songs were mostly based on classical and semi-classical tunes which included the traditional devotional music. The earliest Hindi film songs recorded on a folk based tune as per my search of the Hindi film songs on the internet was a song bande naav ka langar chhod from ‘Kangan’ (1939) which appears to be based on a bhatiali ( boat man’s) folk song of Bengal. There may be a few more Hindi film songs in the 30s based on folk music.
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- In: "Phool" song | "Guitar"song | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Avinash Scrapwala | Lyrics contributed by readers | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I realised it only just now, literally at the 11th hour that today (8 march) is the birth anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi (8 march 1921- 25 october 1980). How could I forget the fact that Sahir Ludhianvi’s birthday falls on the International Women’s day ! This fact was mentioned by Raja while discussing Sahir Ludhianvi song (Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko (Saadhana)) this day two years ago.
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Meri saheliyaan byaahi gayin saari
Posted on: March 8, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Four songs of “Teesra Kaun” (1965) have already been discussed on this blog. Three of them with lyrics provided by Prakashchandra. Lyrics of the other songs of this movie were also provided by him sometime back.
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