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Sakhi prem sudha bhar ke aayi
Posted on: November 6, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The era of silent films in India started in 1913, when 2 films were made-Raja Harishchandra and Mohini Bhasmasur. One would think that this must have started a spate of Silent films, but surprisingly, in 1914, 1915 and 1916 only 1 Silent Film each was produced. From 1916 it started with 5 films till 1931, when the age of Talkies arrived with Alam Ara.
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“Rangoli” (1962) was an R S B Films Production. It was directed by Amar Kumar. the movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyantimala, N. Hussain, Jagdev, Sadhana (not the famous one), Jeevan, Ulhas, Sulochana, Khurshid, Durga Khote, Iftekhar, Dhumal etc in it.
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Pyaase nainon ki pyaas bujha le
Posted on: November 5, 2012
“Pocketmaar” (1956) was a Black and white Movies production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Sunder, Nadira, Gope, Bhagwan Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Tiwari, Kumud Tripathi 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.
Most of the people other than the die hard connoisseurs of filmy and non-filmy music, may not be aware that Sachin Dev Burman (S D Burman) started his musical career as a singer on All India Radio Calcutta (Kolkatta) in early 30s. During his early period of musical journey, he had sung many Bengali non-filmy songs some of them written by such distinguished personalities like Jasimuddin and Kazi Nazrul Islam. I was pleasantly surprised to know that he had also rendered Hindustani classical thumris like preet mein huye badnaam in concerts at Allahabad and Calcutta.
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Dil ki duniya jagmagaayi
Posted on: November 5, 2012
“Daak Babu” (1954) was a Jubilee Pictures Production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Talat Mehmood, Nadira, Radhakrishan, Kuldip Kaur, Yashodhara Katju, Manmohan Krishnan etc in it.
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Bottle se ik baat chali hai
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Ghar” (1978) was based on a sensational news published in 1970s which made headlines all over India and even the PM of the country took note of it. But a few years later, the news reporter of this news item revealed that the headline was a figment of his imagination and nothing like this had happened.
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Jaani O Jaani
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Raja Jani”(1972) was produced by Madan Mohla and directed by Mohan Segal. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Nadira, Premnath, Johny Walker, Helen, Sajjan, Hiralal, Manmohan, C. S. Dubey, Bhushan Tiwari, Bindya, Durga Khote, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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Jhingaapur taakur taakur
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Aasheerwaad” (1968) was a Film Enterprise Production. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Sumita Sanyal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Leela Gandhi, Sajjan, Veena, S. N. Banerjee, Bipin Gupta, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Padma Khanna etc in it.
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“Chhoti Behan” (1959) was a Prasad Production movie. It was produced and directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nanda, Rehman, Shyama, Sudesh Kumar, Trideep Kumar, Mehmood, Hari Shivdasani, Dhumal, Badri Prasad, Shobha Khote, Veena, Radhakrishen etc in it.
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