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Kajra na dekhe gajra na dekhe
Posted on: June 16, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Some gap in communications ! I am surprised at myself. Almost like having a writer’s block – besides other constraints, of course. But then I said to myself, (after having received a few friendly reminders from some fellow bloggers, checking my whereabouts) – things in life will never be done, so time to get back into the groove. 🙂
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Ye khaamoshiyaan ye samaa
Posted on: June 16, 2012
Hindi movie Music basically has three major fields, namely singing, lyrics writing and music composition. All these are specialised fields. People who are good in two of these fields can be called musical all rounders.
That way Hemant Kumar was a true musical all rounder. He can be described as a great in music composition as well in playback singing. And that is reflected in this blog too where Hemant Kumar has completed his century of songs as a music director and as a playback singer both. To this date, he is the only artist in the blog to have done so.
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Yoon na reh reh kar hamen tarsaaiye
Posted on: June 16, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A ‘raagini’ coming alive – that would be an experience worth paying for with everything in life, including life itself. Imagine the circumstance – a private ‘sangeet sabha’ – musical congregation. The singer singing at the request of and in the honor of his spiritual guru. He renders Raag Jaunpuri, with such intense affection – and after some time a moment comes to pass where the entire gathering is transported into a magical surrealism, and the people present actually envision a very beautiful lady bedecked in fine jewellery and attire, slowly ambling amongst them. It is not an individual experience, but a vision perceived by many who were present. A worried guru motions the singer to slow down, and fade away the singing. But the vision persists. Eventually, the guru directs the singer to render Raag Bhairavi, and slowly the apparition fades away.
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Maine ek khwaab sa dekha hai
Posted on: June 15, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was one of the most influential Hindi movies of all times. The story of “Waqt” (1965) was by no means original, but the scale and presentation of the the story was was certainly grand. I have already given several reasons in the past why I call this movie an influential movie.
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Jaane jaan paas aao naa
Posted on: June 15, 2012
“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a real life public scandal of 1950s, where a naval officer’s European born wife had an affair with her husband’s close friend.
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Mann doley mera tann doley
Posted on: June 15, 2012
I have discussed as many as eight songs from “Naagin” (1954) and all of them are iconic songs. I thought that all the iconic songs from this movie have already been discussed. So it comes as a huge surprise to me to realise that the song “Mann doley mera tann doley” from “Naagin” (1954) has not yet been discussed.
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“Hamdard”(1953) was a Variety production movie. It was directed by S Bhagat. the movie had Nimmi, Rajen Kapoor, Shekhar, Yashodhara Katju, Shivraj, Ishu, Jagirdar, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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“Dooj Ka Chaand” (1964) was a Filmistan/ Film Asia production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, B.Saroja Devi, Agha, Ashok Kumar, Chandrashekhar, Ulhas, Ratna, Raj Kumar, Sulochana, Tuntun, Jeevankala, Leela, Prabhat Kumar, Iftekar, Murad, Preeti Bala etc.
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Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi” is one of those rare gems which involves all B-grade names apart from the peerless Lata Mangeshkar herself.
It is her sublime rendering of this number on a lesser light of that period, namely, Vijaya Chowdhary, with B-grade Bollywood hero Ranjan sometimes in the frame.
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