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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.
When the techniques of song recording were first introduced in India by a few music record companies, there was some initial myths and superstitions associated with it. A few of the professional singers believed that song recordings reduced the life span of singers as the electric gadgets suck away the lung power. A few even went to the extent in saying that the microphone takes away all the good qualities of a singer’s voice. It is said that Kesarbai Kerkar, the classical singer did not record a single song for music companies during her life time. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the doyen of Patiala Gharana initially evaded recordings on some pretext or other but the underlying factor seemed to be the fear of losing the quality of his voice.
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Tumko fursat ho meri jaan
Posted on: February 15, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
My younger days were made more enjoyable by Talat’s songs. Though I was born and brought up in Hyderabad state- a Muslim ruled state(The Nizam was the king ruling on 85 % Hindu population….exactly opposite of Raja Harisingh of Kashmir ruling on 85% Muslims ! ), initially I was not much interested in Urdu Gazals etc. My interest in Urdu Gazals was ignited and further nurtured by by the way Talat sang them.
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Khwaab ban kar koyee aayegaa
Posted on: February 14, 2013
“Razia Sultan” (1983) was a Rajdhani Films Pvt Ltd production. It was produced by A K Mishra and directed by Kamal Amrohi. The movie had Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Veena, Sohrab Modi, Pradeep Kumar, Heena Kauser, Madhu Malini, Parveen Babi, Sarika, Vijayendra Ghatge, Ajit, Dolly Jena, Sujata Bakshi, Gopi Krishna, Shandar Amrohi, Radha Saluja, Vijaya Girija, Chitra, Janki Das, Shau Modak, B.M.Vyas, Roop Darshani,Fayyaz Begum, Geeta Kapoor, Anu Dhawan, Mumtaz Begum, Reshma, Balraj, Uttam Sodhi, Kalpana, Amarjeet, D.S.Rana, M.M.Baig, Naseem, Husn Banu, Prem Lala, Shri Bhagwan, Arti Chopra, Roopmala, Shakila, Reshma, Mahipal etc in it.
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Dharti hansti re
Posted on: February 14, 2013
“Aaina”(1974) was a Kalakendra Films production. It was produced by N Selvaraja and L Duraiswamy and directed by K Balachandar. The movie had Mumtaz, Rajesh Khanna, A.K.Hangal, Nirupa Roy, Rita Bhaduri,Ratan Chopra, Lalita Pawar, Jayasudha,Adil Aman, Manmohan Krishna, Anjum Savera,Vandana Rane, Yasmin,Baby Seema, Kalpana, Jagdish Raj, Polson, Madhukar, Brahmachari, Suraj, Prem Kumar, Master Paresh Kumar, Master Jaganath, Madan Puri, Suresh Chatwal, Jagdeepetc in it. This movie had Neetu Singh and Dharmendra in special appearances. The film also had Kamal Hasan in it who was also one of the dance directors of the movie.
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“Naata” (1955) was a Madhubala Pvt Ltd production movie. It was directed by D N Madhok. The movie had Madhubala, Chanchal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Hiralal, Yashodhara Katju, Maruti etc in it.
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“Nav Durga” (1953) was a Basant Pictures Production movie. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Usha Kiran, Dalpat, Sulochana Chatterji, Raja Sandow, Maruti, S N Tripathi, Amarnath etc in it.
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Sundar hoon sakhi
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Films made in the early era of Indian Talkie are a national heritage. Unfortunately, most of the films from the period 1931 to 1939 are not available . Very few films of that era are available. Even the leaflets and film books of these films are not traceable in most cases. In few books like Encyclopaedia of Indian Films the short notes on some films are to be found.
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Bhar de jholi Allah naam
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
LAILA MAJNU(1953) was produced by P N Arora under the banner of All India Pictures and directed by K Amarnath. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Nutan, Ulhas, Begum Para, Wasti, Kammo, Ratan Kumar etc. All the songs of this film were penned by Shakeel Badayuni. However, the film had two music directors – Ghulam Mohammed (11 songs) and Sardar Malik (3 songs).
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Suniye kahiye
Posted on: February 13, 2013
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I thank Sudhir jee for the HUGE writeup on the 7500th song! It took me more than one hour to post it so one can only imagine how much time it must have taken him to type it down.
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