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Bartan kalai karaa lo
Posted on: October 29, 2012
One post in two days is considered good enough for most blogs, but not this one. 🙂 There was one post yesterday and none so far today and that is slow going by the standards of this blog where six to seven songs a day is the norm.
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Baazooband khul khul jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is a known fact that popular thumris (or ghazals) ascribed to the original classical and ghazal singers have also been sung by a few other doyens of Hindustani classical and ghazal singers. For instance, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sang two thumris – ‘yaad piya ki aaye’ and ‘aaye na baalam kaa karu sajani’ to express his grief over the loss of his beloved wife in 1932, which became so popular that many classical singers in the concerts would get ‘farmaish’ to sing these two thumris. Similarly, Shakeel Badayuni’s ghazal ‘ae mohabbat tere anjaam pe ronaa aaya’ which was made immortal by Begum Akhtar’s rendition in early 50s, has been sung by many renowned ghazal singers. In the filmy parlance, these become version renditions of thumris and ghazals.
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Kabhi kuchh pal jeewan ke
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Rang Birangi” (1983) was a Rajeev Pictures Production. It was produced by Rajeev Pandya and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Amol Palekar, Parveen Babi, Deepti Naval, Farooque Sheikh, Deven Varma, Utpal Dutt, Chhaya Devi, Om Prakash, Moolchand, Raj Babbar, Bindiya Goswami, Javed Khan, Poonam, Amol Sen etc in it.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Meena Kumari, Bela Bose, Minoo Mumtaz, Shobhana, Achla Sachdev, Altaf, Zeb Rehman, Mehmood etc in it.
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Sun chaand meri ye daastaan
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Naag Jyoti” (1963) was a Swastik Films Production. It was directed by Shantilal Soni. this B grade mythological movie had Mahipal, Anita Guha, Sunder, Ratnamala, Rajen Haksar, Khurshid etc in it.
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Dil to kisi ko doge
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Ek Saal” (1957) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Johnny Walker, Minoo Mumtaz, Kuldip Kaur etc in it.
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“Laal Haweli” (1944) was a Bombay Cinetone movie. It was directed by K B Lall. The movie had Noorjahan, Surendranath, Ulhas, Yakub, Kanaihyalal, Maya Banerjee, Baby Meena etc in it.
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Suniyo jee araj mhaaro
Posted on: October 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Having stayed in Mumbai for over 60 years, I have a fair knowledge of Marathi but not as good as Hindi and English being my medium of instructions in school and college days respectively. In my younger days, I used to often listen to some non-filmy Marathi songs on the radio as also during some public functions like Ganesh festival. Of these, two Marathi songs which created interest in me to listen to more Marathi songs were “mee dolkar dolkar dolkar dariya cha raaja” ( I am a boatman, the king of sea) sung by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar and “ne majsi ne matrabhumi laa, sagara praan talmal laa” (O sea, take me back to my motherland. My heart aches for her) sung by all the five Mangeshkars – Lata, Asha, Usha, Meena and Hridaynath. Both these songs were composed by Hridaynath Mangeshkar probably in the late 60s or early 70s. These two songs were my first introduction to Hridaynath Mangeshkar.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
By the time 1990s came along Hindi movies were getting loud, the heros were mannerless, ill-bred uncouth fellows. Sadak Chhap Romeos with a heart of gold, diamonds in the rough who start out rather badly, but by the end, redeem themselves by doing the right thing.
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