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Unhen tu bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Naya Ghar” (1953) was a Kashyap Productions movie. It was produced and directed by D D Kashyap. The movie had Shekhar, Geeta Bali, Begum Para, Jagdev, Leela Chitnis, Ratan Kumar, Shailendra etc in it.
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Aa pardesi baalma morey angnaa
Posted on: November 27, 2012
“Chham Chhama Chham” (1952) was a Mohan Pictures Production. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Radha Krishnan, Rehana, Pran, Mohana etc in it.
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“Aasmaan” (1952) was a Dalsukh M Pancholi production movie. This movie had Nasir Khan, Shyama, Veera, Badri Prasad,Anwar, David Abraham, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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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.
I had no much idea about Jahanara Kajjan except that I was aware of a couple of her classical raag based songs in the film ‘Bharathari’ (1944). Very recently, I came across one more of her song ‘tumre darshan ka nainaa taras gaye ho’ from the film PRARTHANAA (1943). I heard this song for the first time and instantly liked it. The song is rendered in dadra style (crisp version of thumri ) based on raag Gaur-Malhar but with typical filmy musical orchestration of early 40s.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s Mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hi everyone !
Now we are into the 7000s in our blog. Imagine 7000 songs and various categories and various centuries later we still find songs that will fall in a new category or make a 100 for some artist or as is the new trend these days a century of a contributor.
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Hindi movie makers have always been on the search for a formula that would enable them to make hit movies. And interestingly enough, this formula does not remain constant rather it varies with time. Moreover, movies made on the same formula do not always meet the same fate. Some movies succeeed while others flop at the box office.
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“Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli” (1971) was a V Shantaram Production movie. The movie had Ravindra, Vasant Parekh, Minal, Abhijeet, Vastala Deshmukh, Iftekhar, Sandhya, Dina Gandhi, Raja Paranjpe, Nanda, Birbal, Praveen Kumar, Sushant Ray etc in it.
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1950s and 1960s were the decades when making the audience cry in movies was a tried and tested way of making movies. Making tearjerkers was the safe way to produce movies those days.
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Dagaabaaz ho baanke piyaa
Posted on: November 26, 2012
“Burma Road” (1962) was a Films Fountain Production. It was directed by Tara Harish. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Moti Sagar, Ajit, Kumkum, Mohan Choti, Vijaya Choudhury, Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevankala etc in it.
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Dil hai deewaana
Posted on: November 26, 2012
“Aasmaan”(1952) was a Pancholi Production movie. It was produced and directed by Dalsukh M Pancholi. The movie had Nasir Khan, Veera, Badri Prasad, Lalita Pawar, Shyam, Anwar, David Abraham, Asha Parekh (as a child artist) etc in it.
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