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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.
C RAMCHANDRA is generally considered a rebel amongst the composers of his times. He is the one, who, in the fifth decade of the 20th century itself brought full fledged western music variety in Hindi songs. At the same time he composed soft and extremely melodious songs based on various Ragaas also. He took Lata Mangeshkar to the pinnacle where she remained, later, on her own merit, for a long period. Very few composers have exhibited such variety in their music. It was a fact that many of his films were sold merely on the strength of his music.
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Wo jisko mita baithhe
Posted on: February 3, 2013
“Qasam” (1947) was a Prem Pictures production. It was directed by M D Baig. The movie had Kanta Devi, Jamu Patel, Najma, Prem Adeeb, Raj Adeeb, Sabir, Shashibala etc in it.
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Aaj mere ghar mehmaan aaye
Posted on: February 3, 2013
“Aap Ki Marzi” (1939) is by now a forgotten movie with hardly any information available on this movie.
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Hum na kabhi honge judaa
Posted on: February 2, 2013
“Phir Janam Lenge Hum” (1977) was a T V Films Private Limited production. This movie was produced by Tahir Hussain and directed by Mehul Kumar. the movie had Adil Amaan, Bhavna Bhatt, Amjad Khan, Raksha Trivedi, Dhaval, Ramesh Deo, Gayatri, Roopesh Kumar, Iftekar, Uma Dhawan, Jagdeep, Tahir Hussain, Ashoo, Madhup Sharma, Murad, Sujata, Madhu Chouhan, Rajni, Manohar Naidu, Akbar, Talukdar, Harisingh, Thakur, Shivaram, Kataria, Kashmiri, Dog Jugnu etc in it.
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“College Girl” (1960) was a Rawal Films Production movie. It was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Tabassum etc in it.
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“Chilman” (1949) was an O S S Productions movie. It was directed by Changezi. The movie had Rehana, Shareef, Pritma, Shanti Mullick, Hamid, Anwari etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.
C Ramchandra started his career as an independent Music Director with a Tamil film- ” Jayakodi” ( Flag of Victory ).
Very strange indeed ! A Marathi composer, who spent his entire life in Hindi cinema Industry, started with a Tamil film !!
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Jhoom rahi baaghon mein
Posted on: February 2, 2013
“Yateem” (1945) is an obscure movie and not much information is available about this movie.
Here is a song from “Yateem” (1945). This song is a duet which is sung by Rajkumari and G M Durrani. Zia Sarhadi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Khurshid Anwar.
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Kehke bhi na aaye tum
Posted on: February 2, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was a bit surprised to note that Mohammed Rafi had to struggle for nearly 5 years to establish him as one of the leading male playback singers in Hindi film industry. It is said that he recorded his first song for a Punjabi film as early as 1942. It took him another 2 years to get his first song in a Hindi film ‘Pahele Aap’ (1944), a duet with Shyam thus beginning his long lasting collaboration with Naushad. It took another year for him to get an opportunity to sing his first solo song ‘ae dil-e-nakaam tamanna’ in ‘Hamara Sansaar’ (1945) followed by ‘teraa khilonaa toota baalak’ in ‘Anmol Ghadi’ (1946), the latter one under the baton of Naushad.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is another solo of Rafi Sahab from the film “Laila Majnu” (1976). This is a ghazal picturized as a doli song with Majnu following Laila’s doli in the desert and singing this song , imploring Laila to take with her, the prayers of the one who has been left desolate in her love. This is among the last few compositions of Madan Mohan. Lyricist is Saahir Ludhianvi. Master of ghazals as Madan Mohan is known as, this is a brilliant creation of all three legends. A teetotaler simpleton, a cynical intellectual and a broken genuis alcoholic. A strange combination if there were any.
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