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Deewaana ye parwaana
Posted on: January 12, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular conributor to this blog.
Today is the Birth Anniversary of C.Ramchandra or Ramchandra Narhari Chitalkar.
Only the other day I got hold of the Marathi Autobiography of C.Ramchandra(CR),titled ‘ Majhya Jeevanachi Sargam’ (Saragam of my life.) Copyright by Yeshwant Ramchandra Chitalkar-1977.
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Main in phoolon sang doloon re
Posted on: January 12, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In K L Saigal’s films, the songs sung by most of other singers remained on the periphery as compared to his magic spelled songs. Even on Radio Ceylon’s programme on old film songs which used to be broadcasted between 7.30-8.00 a.m. in olden days, I rarely heard songs of other singers in K L Saigal’s films while K L Saigal’s song used to be the final song of the programme. Take for example songs of ‘My Sister’ (1944). There are at least two beautiful solo songs sung by Utpala Sen but as compared with Saigal’s four songs which were hugely popular in my younger days, I had not heard any of her songs from this film until I bought one 78 RPM gramophone record in early 70s on which one side of the record had ‘jal jaane do is duniya ko’. I heard her other song from the film only last year.
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Kyun dil mein mere basey ho
Posted on: January 11, 2013
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The best way to write about a poet is to write about his works, his poetry. But when we come to a poet of the stature of Rajinder Krishan, it becomes a very difficult task to write about his poetry. One simply does not know where to start. The body of work is enormous, and the number of pleasing heart stealers is so numerous, that just a sample list of favorites will go beyond a reasonable length for a write up. And no matter how representative one makes this sampler list, readers and friends will come up with wonderful gems of A grade quality that must be included.
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Lo phir chaand nikal aaya
Posted on: January 11, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Hindi film industry, more than the talent in the chosen field, one needs to be saleable in terms of box office success to become a successful artist. In addition, one needs to have a godfather in the Hindi film industry like a producer/director belonging to a big banner film production company. In the sphere of music direction, there were many talented maestros in the 50s and 60s who composed some memorable songs for the Hindi films. But they could not sustain themselves for long thus failing to make it to the big league of music directors of Hindi film industry. They did not have godfathers in the film industry. Some of them did not become saleable despite churning out beautiful songs.
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Dilli waale bure nahin
Posted on: January 10, 2013
Regulars of this blog must have noticed that the daily output of this blog seems to have dwindled for the last few days. The reasons for that can be summed up briefly by saying that I have not been able to devote as much time to the blog as is necessary for its usual daily quota of songs.
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Prem ki pyaari nishaani
Posted on: January 10, 2013
- In: "Tajmahal" song | Devnagri script lyrics by Sudhir | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Lyrics contributed by readers | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Rare song | S D Burman solo song as a singer | S D Burman song as a singer | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1941 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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.
Sachin Dev Burman started his musical career as a singer-composer, mainly of non-filmy songs in the 1930s in Calcutta (Kolkatta). After joining the Hindi film industry as a music director in 1946, he sang very few songs in Hindi films and that too only those composed by himself. So I was under the impression that he did not sing any songs in Hindi films under the baton of other music directors. I was wrong in my impression as I found a few days that he sang such songs way back in the beginning of his career. As early as 1941, he had rendered a song for a Hindi film under the music direction of Madhulal Damodar Master. This song happened to be his debut song for Hindi films.
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Sau baras par preetam ghar aaye
Posted on: January 9, 2013
“Raami Dhoban” (1953) was a Navkala Production movie. It was direcyted by Indu Kumar. The movie had Jairaj, Nirupa Roy, Ulhas, Trilok Kapoor, Sapru, Ranjana, Kamini Kaushal etc in it.
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Pardesi kyun yaad aata hai
Posted on: January 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAN KI JEET (1944) was produced and directed by W Z Ahmed under the banner of Shalimar Pictures owned by him. Shyam and Nina were in the lead roles. The story of the film was said to be based on Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles’. One of the most popular songs from this film nagri meri kab tak yoon hi barbaad rahegi has been discussed in this blog.
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Akele mein wo ghabraate to honge
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The first time we hear of Khayyaam as a music director is in the 1951 film, ‘Pyaar Ki Baaten’. In this film, he shares the honors of music composition with Bulo C Rani. But certainly, this is not his first film as a music director. He has been active in the industry since 1948, albeit has was using a different name. In 1947-48 when he came to Bombay looking for opportunities as a music director, some producers and friends suggested to him not to use his original name, and so he adopted a pseduonym – Sharma ji. Under this name he composed music for three films, before reverting to his original name with the film, ‘Pyaar Ki Baaten’.
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Main albeli titli
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the decades of 30s and 40s, some of the female singers made it to Hindi films as actors thanks to their ability to sing well. It would appear that in those days, it was more of the singing ability than the acting skills which was the deciding factors for the film producers to pick up the female actors. Some of the prominent singing female actors of that period were Khursheed Bano, Noor Jehan, Kanan Bala, Shanta Apte, Suraiya, Amirbai Karnataki, Rajkumari etc.
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