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Master jee ki aa gayi chithhi
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 september) is an important day in India for a non musical reason too. It is the birthday of Dr. Sarwapalli Radhakrishnan (5 september 1888 – 17 april 1975), who was India’s second president and prior to that he had made his mark as an eminent scholar and philosopher. He was knighted by Britain in 1931 and he was accorded “Bharat Ratna”, India’s highest civilian honour in 1954. In honour of Dr Radhakrishnan as a scholar, this day is celebrated in India as teacher’s day.
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Teri galiyon mein ham aaye
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 september) is Salil Chaudhary’s death anniversary. Salil Chaudhary was one Hindi movie music. Or it would be more appropriate to say that he was a pioneer of Indian movie music. He composed music in movies of as many as ten languages. Majority of these movies were in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam though.
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“Jaadu” (1951) was a Musical pictures production. It was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Nalini Jaywant, Sharda, Shyam Kumar, Amanullah etc in it.
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Hamaar kahaa maano raja jee
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 september) is the death anniversary of D D Kashyap (1910- 5 september 1988).
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Tann jaley mann jalta rahey
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 august) is Salil Chaudhary’s death anniversary. Salil Chaudhary (19 november 1922- 5 september 1995) was one of the pioneers in the field of Hindi movie music. He composed music mainly in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam movies and left his mark in movies of all three languages.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shehnaz(1948) is a lost film, it would seem. I havenot been able to find videos of any of the songs. I had sent the lyrics of four songs of this film. Atulji has posted three of them, and fourth one is this Rafi solo. I am reproducing the synopsis of the film and other details provided by Arunkumar Deshmukh Sir, our in-house encyclopedia about old Hindi film.
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Dil ki dhadkan bana liya unko
Posted on: September 5, 2012
“Mumtaz Mahal” (1944) was produced under the banner of Ranjit Movietone. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Khursheed ,Chandramohan, Yakub, Sajjan, Sulochana Chatterjee etc in it.
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After the box office failure of “Mera Naam Joker”(1970), Raj Kapoor was a shaken and disillusioned man. When he decided to make a comeback, he decided to play safe and he made a teenage love story and not a serious philosophical movie. The old musical team that had served him well for the past two decades was summarily discarded and a new musical team was signed up for “Bobby”(1973).
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Today (4 september) is Rishi Kapoor’s birthday. It appears only yesterday that he made his debut as a teenage hero in “Bobby” (1973). But in reality that was 39 years ago ! How time has flown! Now it is his son who is a teenage heartthrob and Rishi Kapoor these days plays old man’s roles.
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By 1977, Rekha’s career was going nowhere and movie critics commented that she was wasting her career like Faryal. Faryal was held as the gold standard of career wasters those days, though I suppose Randhir Kapoor was not far behind her.
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