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Aaj rota hai kyun
Posted on: September 17, 2012
Today (17 september) is the death anniversary of Dev Kumar, an actor who was active from 1960s to 1980s. Not too many songs were picturised on him in Hindi movies because he mainly acted as a baddie. But there were a few movies where he acted as the lead actor and songs were picturised on him.
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Lagan lagi hai sajan milan ki
Posted on: September 17, 2012
“Naata” (1955) was a Madhubala Pvt Ltd Production movie. It was directed by D N Madhok. The movie had Abhi Bhattacharya, Madhubala, Chanchal, Vijayalaxmi, Kanhaiyalal, Heeralal, Gope etc in it.
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HFGK lists nine songs in “Jaadu” (1951). There is one more song in addition in the movie, viz. Ab raat milan ki beet chuki but it is not considered a full fledged song by HFGK and it finds mention there only as a footnote.
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Tu kaun hai mera keh de baalam
Posted on: September 17, 2012
Here is this song from “Deedaar” (1951). It is sung by Lata and it is picturised on a lady looking extremely happy and besides herself with joy. I had great difficulty in identifying her and I actually rubbed my eyes in disbelief on realising that the lady in question was none other than Nimmi ! I was told that the only occasion when Nimmi was seen breaking into a faint smile was in a 1960s movie and that too towards the fag end of her career. but this song alters all that. She actually is seen smiling whole heartedly in this song.
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“Shehnaayi” (1947) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Nasir Khan, Rehana, Rehana, Indumati, Mumtaz Ali, Dulari, V H Desai, Leela Mishra, Kumkum 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 popular Hindi film songs of golden era are remembered even today not only because of melodies and rhythms embedded in them but also because the lyrics of those songs are poetic and meaningful. The quality of lyrics in Hindi film songs started deteriorating sometime from the beginning of 90s and by 2000 onwards, the deterioration in lyrics was almost complete. However, there were a few poet-lyricists who continued to write meaningful lyrics for the Hindi film songs even in 21st century though they had to occasionally cross the ‘self imposed laxman rekha’ in keeping with the current waves of the Hindi film music. Among such poet-lyricists, names of Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Hasan Kamal and Prasoon Joshi come to my mind.
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Very little is known about music director Ram Laxman. Initially there were two of them, viz Ram Kadam and Vijay Patil who composed music as Ram Laxman. Ram Kadam died in 1976. But Vijay Patil continued to compose music as Ram Laxman. In fact, most well known movies with music by Ram Laxman came after 1976 when it was Vijay Patil alone composing music as Ram Laxman. Movies like “Maine Pyaar Kiya” (1989) and “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun”(1994) are the compositions of Ram Laxman.
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“Aazaad” (1955) was a Pakshiraj Production movie. It was directed by S M S Naidu. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Pran, S. Nazir, Raj Mehra, Randhir, Achla Sachdev, Deepa Sahi, Shammi, Subblaxmi, Badri Prasad, Murad, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Dil yoon yoon karta hai
Posted on: September 16, 2012
“Heer Ranjha” (1948) was a Punjab Film Corporation. It was directed by Wali Sahab and the movie had Ghulam Mohammed, Mumtaz Shanti, Shree Nath, Roop Kamal, Gulab, Majnu, Aziz Kashmiri etc in it.
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Duniya ne teri duniyaa waale
Posted on: September 16, 2012
As many as eight songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the ninth song from the movie.
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