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Abke na saawan barse
Posted on: September 4, 2012
While listening to songs, music lovers appreciate the singers as well as the music, but the lyrics are often taken for granted. In reality, it is the lyrics that are the soul of these songs which give these songs their life and their personality.
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Chali aaj gori piya ki nagariya
Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Godaan”(1963) was based on Munshi Premchand’s novel of the same name. The movie was a Jetley Films Production. It was directed by Trilok Jetley. The movie had Mehmood, Kamini Kaushal, Raj Kumar, Shobha Khote, Tuntun, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Ravikant, Manhar Desai, Trilok Jetley, Nand Kishore, Ragini, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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O pardesi ghar aa jaa
Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Apna Paraaya” (1942) is an old and obscure movie. The only thing that I am able to find out about this movie is that it was directed by Ramchandra Thakur and that it had Hansa Wadkar as one of the actors. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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“Dooriyaan” (1979) was a Climb Pictures production. It was directed by Bhimsen. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Priyadarshini, Shriram Lagoo, Baby Geeta, Sudha Chopra, Sulbha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande, Lalita Kohli, Nitin Sethi, Dutta Bhatt, Achyut Poddar, Kiran Seth etc in it.
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“Suraj Aur Chanda”(1973) was produced by A V Subramaniam and directed by T Madhav Rao. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Bindu, Shyama, Jagdeep, Laxmi Chhaaya, Sujit Kumar, Jairaj, Mukri etc in it.
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“Hera Pheri” (1976) was directed by Prakash Mehra. It had Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Bano, Vinod Khanna, Sulakshana Pandit etc in it.
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Dost kahaan koi tum sa
Posted on: September 3, 2012
“Khamoshi”(1969) was a Geetanjali Production movie. It was produced by Hemant Kumar and directed by Asit Sen (director and not actor). The movie had Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Ajit Chatterji, Iftekhar, Tarun Ghosh, Nazir Hussain, Snehlata, Anwar, Deven Verma, Naina etc in it.
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Suno jee suno
Posted on: September 3, 2012
“Naag Mandir” (1966) was a Mayur Kala Pictures movie. It was directed by Shantilal Soni. The movie had Mahipal, Vijaya Chaudhary, Indira Bansal, B M Vyas etc in it.
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Ghat kaari matwaari ghir aayee
Posted on: September 3, 2012
Today (3 september) is the death anniversary of Meena Shorey. it was on this day in 1989 that Meena Shorey breathed her last.
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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.
Old film song lovers would be eternally thankful to the internet technologies and the websites hosting video/audio and MP3 clips of these songs which have made it possible to unearth many of the old film songs which were not known to most of us. I have been active on these websites for the last 3 years or so and I can say that not only has this brought back the memories of many songs after a gap of 30-40 years for me, but also brought to my notice some rare songs I was not aware of. I also became aware of some of the lesser known music directors, lyricists and singers. In fact, I had already created my playlist of such songs most of which have been covered in my articles for discussion in this blog.
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