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Bahaaron ne kiye sajde
Posted on: August 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music.
Mukesh, a voice that simply does not cease to surprise. It is known that the total number of songs sung by him are numbering around 1,000. The only hope that this number may go up is discovery of maybe some more songs, but that number will not be huge. Most people refer to the Geet Kosh for identifying the songs under various categories. And it is a fact that the Geet Kosh still has some missing details, especially for the films in the 1930s and 1940s. If possible that continuing additional search may yield more details for some films, where the song details are missing. And we may be able to discover more songs sung by the singers in those years.
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Saawan ka maheena aa gayaa
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Nehle Pe Dehla” (1976) was an Ajanta Arts production. It was produced by Sunil Dutt and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie saw the “Padosan” (1968) lead pair of Sunil Dutt and Saira Bano paired up once again in this movie. The movie also had Vinod Khanna, Bindu, Ramayan Tiwari, Dev Kumar, Ranjeet, Kamini Kaushal, Anwar Hussain, Trilok Kapoor, Bharat Bhooshan, ShivKumar, Romeo, Keshav Rana, Vikas Anand, Prem Kumar, Hercules, Daljit Rao, Pehlwan, Vivek, Sonu, Dhanraj, Bittu, Jilani, Ramesh Aejaz, Premnath, Om Prakash, Bhushan Tiwari etc in it.
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Today (23 august) is the birthday of Sapan Chakraborty. For much of his career, he was as assistant of R D Burman. He worked as an independent music director in a few Hindi and Bangla movies too. Moreover he has sung a few songs in Hindi movies too.
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Today (23 august) is the birthday of Saira Bano. Saira Bano made her debut in 1960s and when one thinks about it, her career was mainly confined to the decade of 1960s, with a few sporadic appearances in 1970s.
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Gori ke nainon mein nindiya bhari
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Angaarey” (1954) was an Akash Chitra Production movie. It was directed by K B Lal. The movie had Vanmala, Pran, Paro, Ratan Kumar, K. N. Singh, Nasir Khan, Nargis, Jagirdar, Nanda, Jeevan, Sunalini Devi, Jawahar Kaul etc in it.
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Aaja re aajaa na sata re piya
Posted on: August 23, 2012
“Chhoomantar” (1956) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Shyama, Karan Dewan, Jagirdar, S. Banerjee, Raj Mehra, Amar, Anita Guha, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Koi ummeed bar nahin aati
Posted on: August 23, 2012
I am aware of a 1971 movie called “Apna Desh”. It turns out that there was another movie of the same name. “Apna Desh” (1949) was a Rajkamal Kala Mandir production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Pushpa Hans, Umesh Sharma, Manmohan Krishna, Chnadrashekhar, Sudha Apte, Keshavrao Date, Krishna Goyal, Satish Vyas etc in it.
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Paa laagoon kar joree re
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mahipal, a name that is so familiar as the actor behind the ‘Raaj Kavi Diwaakar’ in V Shantaram’s ‘Navrang’ (1959), as the healer Zabak in Basant Picture film ‘Zabak’ (1961), or the swashbuckling swordsman Paras in Movieland’s film ‘Parasmani’ (1963), and many more characters played by him in films with historical, mythological and religious themes. But not many people know that Mahipal Chandra Bhandari, a young lad of 23 from Jodhpur, made his debut in films both as an actor and a poet. His first film as an actor, ‘Nazraana’ (1942), a twin production in Hindi and Maarwari, turned out to be a flop, and it would not be for another 8 years, till 1950, that he would catch the attention of the industry and the audience alike, as a performer on the screen. But in the interim, his talent and his childhood interest is writing poetry, kept him busy writing lyrics for films like ‘Maali’ (1944) and ‘Aap Ki Sewa Mein’ (1947).
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Do naina aur ek kahaani
Posted on: August 22, 2012
“Masoom” (1982) was inspired from “Man, Woman and Child written” by Erich Segal. And it must be said that the tale was very well adapted by Gulzar who wrote the screenplay and directed with great sensitivity and understanding by Shekhar Kapoor. There were few people in the audience who remained unmoved by the plight of eight year old Rahul (played by Jugal Hansraj), a result of one night affair between an unwed Bhawna (played by Supriya Pathak) and a happily married DK (Naseeruddin Shah) at Nainital at a time when DK’s wife Indu (Shabana Azmi) is expecting their first child. DK goes back home and has a happy family life with two daughters Pinky (Urmila Matondkar) and Minni (Aradhana).
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O jhumke waali ho
Posted on: August 22, 2012
We did not have any anniversaries of movie personalities for the last one day. That state of affair cannot continue of course. 🙂 With so many movies and so many songs over the last eight decades featuring thousands of artists, a few annivesaries are bound to be there on most of the days of the year.
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