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Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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Today (8 december) is the birthday of Dharmendra as well as Sharmila Tagore. Seeing how pressed for time we all are, it is always a good idea to discuss a song that features both of them.
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When one looks at the songs picturised on Dilip Kumar, one finds that Dilip Kumar, for much of his career had lip synced mainly in the voices of Talat Mehmood, Mukesh and Rafi. In addition, he had also sung in the voices of G M Durrani and C Ramchandra. Then he had sung for himself as well in a few songs.
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“Jee Chaahta Hai” (1964) was a Mitra Productions Pvt Limited production. It was directed by Bibhuti Mitra.
The movie had Joy Mukherji, Rajshri, Motilal, Jeevan,Shyama, Nazir Hussain, Janki Dass, Rajendra Nath, Achala Sachdev, Poornima, Pratima Devi, Chaand, Lakshmi, Jeanie, Thelma, Baby Farida, Baby Yasmin, Badri Prasad, Rajender, Jagdish Kamal, Master Shahid etc in it.
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“Aayi Milan Ki Bela” (1964) was a Filmyug Production movie. It was produced by J Omprakash and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Dharmendra, Shashikala, Sulochana Latkar, Sunder, Madan Puri, Nazir Hussain, Mumtaz Begum, Madhu Apte, Keshav Rana, Sarita etc in it.
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Nainon ke teer chala gayi
Posted on: December 8, 2012
- In: "Aankh" song | Actor-Singer song | Banned song | Drunkard song | Guest posts | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Rare song | Series of articles | songs by non singers | Songs by non singers | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1944 | Sunder Singh solo song | Sunder Singh song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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.
Songs by Non Singers
This is the 10th and the last song of the series- SONGS BY NON SINGERS.
For me it has been a very hectic fortnight involving a very busy schedule. Luckily, I was able to locate all the songs’ video and Audio on You Tube but not without the customary hiccups.
Collecting authentic information about old, fogotten artists was also very challenging. To get atleast 10 songs, I dug out about 30 songs from films of 30s to 70s.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was a Filmistan production movie. It was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. Pradeep KUmar and Bina Rai played the lead roles in this movie. Mubarak, Kuldip Kaur, Sulochana, S. L. Puri, Manmohan Krishna, Noorjahan etc were the other actors in this movie.
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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.
Just the other day I wrote in the comments,” ALL that is produced after 1970 in Hindi Films is not bad as much as ALL that is produced before 1970 is not good”. My reference was to the overall quality of films, like story, acting, comedy or music etc.
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