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Kyaa jaadoo hai tere paas piyaa
Posted on: January 7, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The Voice of Mukesh #10
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The first five years of Mukesh’s career, from 1941 to 1945 were sketchy, and not very productive. The available records show that he sang 14 songs in six films during these five years. His singing did not capture much attention, and Mukesh was a discouraged man, contemplating to leave Bombay and return home to Delhi. But then in 1945, ‘Pehli Nazar’ happened, under the baton of Anil Biswas. And after the release of ‘Pehli Nazar’, Mukesh’s career was on the up and up.
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Dekho na dekho na
Posted on: January 6, 2013
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The purists among music lovers often like to keep a cut-off for their listening habits. ‘I don’t listen to songs later than this year,’ they often say. I don’t disagree with those cut-offs. There are times when we just don’t want to listen to the cacophony that our music often descends to. But then, like a proverbial ‘keechad me kamal’ a beautiful song pops up among all this noise. The sufiana songs from the present times are meaningful and pleasing to the ear. The songs written by Gulzar and Javed Akhtar, set to tunes by AR Rahman are beautiful and worth listening to again and again.
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“Deedaar e Yaar” (1982) was a Tirupati Pictures Production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Jeetendra, Rekha, Rishi Kapoor, Tina Munim, Nirupa Roy, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Deven Verma, Reena Roy etc. in it.
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Aaj koi nahin apna
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Agnipareeksha” (1981) was a B R Films Production movie. It was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Kamal Majumdar. The movie had Amol Palekar, Rameshwari, Parikshath Sahni, Veena, Utpal Dutt, Iftekar, Dr.Sri Raam Lagoo, S.N.Bannerjee, Nana Palsikar, Jagadish Raj, Dinesh Thakur, JankiDass, Prem Sagar, Dev Dutt, Sunil Dhawan, Master Danny, Amol Sen, Pravin Khanna, Maher, Dev Sharma, Sundar Taneja, Satya Banerjee, Heeraji, Navin Kumar, Gaikwad etc in it.
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Tauba tauba meri tauba
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Reshma Aur Shera” (1971) was an Ajanta Arts Production. It was produced and directed by Sunil Dutt. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Rakhee, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayant, Vinod Khanna, Amrish Puri, Padma Khanna, Ranjeet, Sudhir, Sulochana Latkar, Dulari, K N Singh, B.B .Bhalla, Prem Kumar,Naval Kumar, Baby Guddi,Sanjay Dutt,,Om prakash Chopra, Rajindar Pal etc in it.
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Baabul ham tore angna ki chidiyaa
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“College Girl” (1960) was a Rawal Films production. The movie was produced by B L Rawal and directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Shammi Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Om Prakash, Tabassum, Raj Mehra, Purnima, Nana Palsikar, Randhir, Achala Sachdev, Mohan Choti, Leela Misra, Vinod Sharma, Sarita Devi, Kumud Tripathi, Ravikant, Shyamlal etc in it.
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Kali ek tumse poochhe baat
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Sakshi Gopal” (1957) was ratnadeep Pictures production. It was directed by Balchandra Shukla and Ramnik Vyas. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nanda, Madan Puri, Niranjan Sharma, Achla Sachdev, Chaman Puri, Narbada Shanker, Manju etc in it.
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Kaari kaari andhiyaari thhi raat
Posted on: January 5, 2013
“Navrang” (1959) was a Rajkamal Pictures Production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Mahipal, Sandhya, Nirmal Kumar, K. Date, Vandana, Agha, Baburao Pendharkar, Ullhas, Chandrakant Desai, Vatsala Deshmukh, etc in it.
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“Apradhi” (1947) was a Prabhat Pictures Production. It was produced by S Fatehlal and directed by Yashwant Pethkar. The movie had Madhubala, Ram Singh, Leela Pandey, Pran, Uma Dutt, Raj Kishore, Gouri, Srinivas Joshi, Manjrekar, Kishan Rao, M Naresh, Niranjan, Subodh, Vinod, Gangubai, Madhu Apte etc in it.
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Bhala kyun bhala kyun
Posted on: January 5, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The above song is from a film called PARAKH-1937, whose Music Director was B.S.HOOGAN.
When I first came across this name Hoogan, in the list of Hindi composers, my first reaction was, what is this foreigner doing in Hindi Films ?
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