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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This film “Laal Quila” (1960) would have been forgotten but for the two immortal ghazals composed by S. N. Tripathi, and sung by Mohammed Rafi. These ghazal’s ‘lagtaa nahin hai dil meraa ujde dayaar mein’ and ‘na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon na kisi ke dil ka qaraar hoon ‘ have a place in the hearts of urdu poetry readers be they lay person or scholors.
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Pyaar ne kitne sapne dekhe
Posted on: December 27, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Searching for and finding rarities in the world of music, is a keen and interesting pursuit. The Hindi film songs have so many variants attached to their existence. Songs that appear in film, but are not released elsewhere. Songs that are on records but not included in the film. Version songs – the official song in the film and on the record, is also available on record in the voice of a different singer. This case is different from the same song sung by more than one singer and included in the film. Then we have the variations between the song published on record and the song as picturized in the film.
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“Mastaana” (1954) was a Black and White movies production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Kuldip Kaur, Chandrashekhar, Yashodhara Katju, Sunder, Rinkoo, Gope, Chaman Puri, Master Romi, Tiwari etc in it.
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“Nateeja” (1947) was a Bombay Talkies movie. It was directed by Najam Naqvi. The movie had Shamim Bano, Yakub, Jillo, Radhika, Maya Devi etc in it.
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Haaye re duniya
Posted on: December 27, 2012
“Zeenat” (1945) was produced by Sheth Shiraz Ali Hakim and Ramzanali S Lakhani and directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Karan Dewan, Yakub, Dixit, Majid, Himalaywala, Naseem Jr, Agha Salim Raza, Leela Mishra etc.
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Deendayaal sakal dukhbhanjan
Posted on: December 27, 2012
This article is written by Vidur Sury, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Thanks to Atul Sir, now I have the pleasure of writing a series on songs by immortal singer Amirbai Karnataki Ji.
My first song will be the earliest among those not yet on this blog, and this is from Narsi Bhagat (1940), one of her early famous films.
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Ek baat kahoon gar maano tum
Posted on: December 26, 2012
“Golmaal” (1979) was a Rupam Chitra Production. This movie was produced by Hrishikesh Mukherji and N C Sippy and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Amol Palekar, Bindiya Goswami, Utpal Dutt, Deven Varma, Manju Singh, Dina Pathak, Keshto Mukherjee, Om Prakash, David Abraham, Shubha Khote, Pushpa, Yunus Parvez, Ashwani, Amol Sen, Bhola, Harish Magon, Siddharth, Anjan Srivastav, Moolchand, Anand, Renu, Chandramohan. IN addition, the movie also had Zeenat Amaan, Hema Malini, Amitaabh Bachchan, Rekha and Aruna Irani in guest appearances.
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Matwaala jiyaa doley piyaa
Posted on: December 26, 2012
“Mother India” (1957) was a movie that was released before I was born. So this movie is from an era before my time. I first watched this movie in late 1970s in its nth re run in a dilapidated movie hall. Moreover I was not much into old movies in those days and I went to watch this movie so that I may be able to say that I had seen this movie. 🙂
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Aisi hi agar marzi hai teri
Posted on: December 26, 2012
“Roop Ki Raani Choron Ka Raja” (1961) was a Rahul Theatres Production. It was prooduced and directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Jeevan, Sunder, Hira Lal, Randhir, Jagdish Raj, Rajindar Nath, Sahira, Sheela Kashmiri, Manorama, Indira Bansal, Gautam Mukerjee, Babu Rao Pehlwan, Soda Water, Prabhu Arora, Rirkoo, Jasbir Singh, Ravi Kant, Sadhu Singh, Raj Kumar, Ghosh, Guddu, Satish etc in it.
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