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Today (29 july) is the birthday of Anup Jalota. Anup Jalota mainly sang non film bhajans, but he has sung a few songs in Hindi movies as well.
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Today (29th july) is the death anniversary of Sudhir Phadke (25 july 1919- 29 july 2002). He got the opportunity to compose in very few Hindi movies, but he has left an indelible mark in the annals of Hindi movie music. Who can forget the immortal song Jyoti kalash chhalke from “Bhaabhi Ki Choodiyaan”. Another timeless classic, viz. Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai is also his creation.
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Hamne raat guzaari taare gin gin ke
Posted on: July 29, 2012
“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures Production. It was directed by Rakhan. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Padmini, Jabeen Jaleel, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev, etc in it.
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Man veena madhur boley
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before she burst on to the Bollywood scene with C.I.D. (1956) and Pyaasa (1957), Padma Bhushan Waheeda Rehman starred in two movies each in Telugu and Tamil including, as the second heroine, in the D. Yoganand directed Anjali Devi-A. Nageswara Rao starrer 1955 Telugu production Jayasimha. It was later dubbed in Hindi by P. Ramesh Naidu and released as Jai Singh in 1959.
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Ye baat koi samjhaaye re
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sandhya Mukherjee is one of the relatively lesser known playback singers of 50s as far as Hindi film industy is concerned. But she has gone on to become one of the top most playback singers of Bengali films. I first came to know about her as a playback singer when I bought a 78 RPM record (No. N. 36794) of the film ‘Sazaa’ (1951) for the iconic song ‘tum na jaane kis jahaan mein kho gaye’. The other side of the gramophone record had “aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen” sung by Sandhya Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar. When I first listened to this song, I felt that I got a bonus song along with the iconic song of the film.
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Man dol rahaa hai
Posted on: July 29, 2012
“Qeemat” (1946) is an extremely rare and obscure movie by now. Hardly any information is available about this movie online. This movie had Sulochana Chatterjee, Amar etc in it, as far as I can find out.
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“Baaghi” (1964) was a Mukul Movies production. It was directed by Ram Dayal. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Leela Naidu, Helen, Mumtaz, Jeevan, Veena, Ulhas, Naaz, Vijaya Choudhry, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Jab se tujhe jaan gayee
Posted on: July 28, 2012
“Bluffmaster” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. It had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Pran, Mohan Choti, Laxmi Chhaya, TunTun, Rashid Khan, Shyam Lal, Charlie Walker, Jugal Kishore, Anand Joshi, Santhosh Kumar etc in it.
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“12 O’clock”(1958) was produced by G P Sippy and directed by Pramod Chakraborty. The movie had Guru Dutt, Shashikala, Johnny Walker, Tuntun, Helen, Hari Shivdasani, Rajen Kapoor, Abrar Alvi, Waheeda Rehman etc in it.
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Jeene ki soorat ho gayee
Posted on: July 28, 2012
“Tohfa” (1947) is a movie about which little is known now. From internet, I can gather that the movie had
Nawab, Veera, Shahnawaz, Anuradha, Rehman, Misra, Agha etc in it.
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