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Laga pehli nazar ka teer
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a feloow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Voice of Mukesh #5
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Ah, so now we arrive at the turning point of Mukesh’s fledgling career that made him capture the attention of all concerned, and be launched on to the sky of Hindi films, never to look back. The year is 1945, the film is ‘Pehli Nazar’, and the singer Mukesh – well, it almost did not happen.
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Ho saathiyaa
Posted on: November 1, 2012
“Vidhaata” (1982) was a Trimurty Films Production. It was produced by Gulshan Rai and directed by Subhash Ghai. The movie was a multistarrer, boasting of names like Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Padmini Kolhapure, Amrish Puri, Madan Puri, Suresh Oberoi, Sarika etc in it.
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“Aakraman” (1975) was a title that came as a surprise to me. Those were the days when Hindi movies did not have titles in Textbook Hindi. “Aakraman” is Hindi/ Sanskrit for “Attack”. The tendency for movie makers those days was the use a word like “Hamla” instead of “Aakraman”, even though it was a word of normal usage in Hindi textbooks. That way one needs to give some credit to the makers of this movie that he used a Hindi title for a Hindi movie.
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Hazaaron rang badlega zamaana
Posted on: November 1, 2012
Today (1 november) is the death anniversary of lyricist Tanvir Naqvi (6 february 1919 – 1 november 1972). Born as Syed Khursheed Ali in Lahore,,Tanvir Naqvi namy not be as well as some well known lyricists, but he has penned some well known songs in Hindi movies. He migrated to Pakistan in 1950s and died in Lahore on this date 40 years ago.
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“Aag Ka Dariya” (1953) was a Shourey Films Production. It was produced and directed by Roop K Shourey. The movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Karan Dewan, Meena Shorey, Shammi, Johny Walker, Uma Dutt, Cecil etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few months back, I came across a thumri ‘ro ro nain gawaaun sajanwaa aan milo’ sung by Ashraf Khan. I liked this thumri and assumed it to be a traditional thumri bandish rather than from a Hindi film. I marked it in my play list and forgot about it. It was only when I read an article on actor-singer Ashraf Khan written by Arun Kumar Deshmukh as part of a series of his articles on some lesser known singers for this blog that I realised that the thumri sung by Ashraf Khan which I referred to earlier was in fact a thumri based song from the film ‘Baaghbaan’ (1938).
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Haan qaidi
Posted on: November 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This write up contains hard to find details on this obscure movie. This is the 400th obscure movie whose details have been provided by him in this blog.
I was very fond of seeing movies and listening to the songs since childhood. Those days, children were not allowed to see films, unlike today (only the other day I saw my neighbour taking his family of wife and 2 sons aged 10 and 14 to see the film “The Dirty picture”. I became sqeamish, but these are current trends). If at all a film was to be seen, the children had to go with their mother, aunt, grandmother or some such female relative and the film would invariably be “Ram Ravan Yudh” or “Bakasur ki Maut”.
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“Naya Zamaana” (1971) was a Pramod Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Pramod Chakraborty. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Pran, Indrani Mukherjee, Ashok kumar, Manmohan, Shabnam, Mehmood, Dhumal, Jankidass, Lalita Pawar, Aruna Irani, Raj Mehra, V.Gopal, Roopali, Baby Guddi etc in it.
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“Manzil” (1960) was a Kalpana Pictures production. It was directed by Mandi Burman. The movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Mehmood, David, K N Singh, Badri Prasad, Achala Sachdev, Pratima Devi, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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Teri patli kamar teri baali umar
Posted on: October 31, 2012
“Dus Lakh” (1966) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Sanjay Khan, Babita, Pran, Helen, Manorama, Om Prakash, Ramesh Deo, Seema, Parvin Paul, Master Ripple, Baby Sonia, Bramhachari, Hari Shivdasani, Shefali Chowdhry, Mool Chand etc in it.
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