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“Sone Ki Chidiyaa”(1958) was a Film India Corporation production. It was directed by Shahid Lateef. The movie had Nutan, Balraj Sahni, Talat Mehmood, Amar, Bikram Kapoor, Zebunissa, Pratima Devi, Dhumal, Altaf etc in it.
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Suno jee pyaari koyaliya boley
Posted on: April 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had never heard of the film SANYASI (1945) until a few months back. The film was produced under the banner of Kardar Productions and directed by A R Kardar. The cast included Shamim Bano, Amar, Shyam Kumar, Ghulam Mohammed. I checked the available songs on internet and found to my surprise that there were 10 songs in this film out of which 7 songs were sung by Zohrabai Ambalewali (both solo and duets). These songs were written by Pandit Madhur and set to music by Naushad. Other than these, I am not able to get other details about this film such as genre and box office success or otherwise of the film.
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Kaanon ki ek nagri dekhi
Posted on: April 22, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In life, every body has a target. We have seen different people choose different routes to reach the same target as they prefer one route over another according to their likings. Target of Atulji’s blog is not to produce another version of HFGK. But to give all hindi film song lovers a chance to cherish songs from different contributors with full lyrics and comments, which is then followed by discussion on the story line of the movies and the artists by our in house encyclopedia, Shri Arunji and others join in.
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Ek lali ghar se chali
Posted on: April 22, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The title of the movie “Cha cha cha” is unique and one of its kind. It also indicates great songs. Four songs from the film are already posted here, which include songs like “woh ham na thhe woh tum na thhi”, “ek chameli and mandve tale” & “subha na aayi shaam na aayi”. There are more such gems still to be discovered from this movie.
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Mera jala raat bhar diyaa
Posted on: April 22, 2012
“Chamak Chaandni” (1957) is not a movie too many people may be aware of. This obscure movie was a Chitra Bharati Limited production. It was produced by Chimanlal Trivedi and directed by Mani Bhai Vyas. The starcast reads like a B grade movies who is who, viz. Mahipal, Shakila, Tiwari, Chandrashekhar,Maruti, Niranjan Sharma, Helen, Purnima etc.
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He Abdullah naagin waala aa gayaa
Posted on: April 22, 2012
“Ishaara” (1964) was an Amarnath Production movie. It was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Vyjayanthimala, Jayant, Subbiraj, Azra, Pratima Devi, Agha, Pran, Shammi, Sajjan, Murad, Praveen Paul, Hari Shivdasani, Kesari, Raja Amrohi, Ruby Meyers, Brahm Bhardwaj, Prem Sagar, Amrit Rana, Ravikant etc in it.
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“Amaanat” (1955) was a Bimal Roy Production. It was directed by Arvind Sen. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Chand Usmani, Ashim Kumar, Pran, Nazir Hussain, Asha Mathur, Kanhaiyalal, Achla Sachdev, Asit Sen etc in it.
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“Talwaar Ka Dhani” (1956) is as obscure a movie as any. This movie was a Vikas Production presentation. It was directed by Dwarka Khosla. The movie had Nadira, Manhar Desai, B. M. Vyas, Anwar, Maruti, Pakku etc in it.
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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.
In the 30s and 40s, female actor-singers like Noor Jehan, Khursheed, Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnataki and Zoharabai Ambalewali dominated the Hindi film industry. These artists were based in Lahore and Bombay (Mumbai). Kanandevi who was based in Calcutta(Kolkatta) held somewhat higher status of a superstar actor-singer for nearly two decades both in Bengali and Hindi film industries. Today, April 22nd is the birth anniversary of Kanandevi who was born in Howrah to a poor family. Her adoptive father died early which forced her to take the responsibility of looking after her family at a young age of 10 years. A well wisher introduced her to Jyoti Studios where she was given a small role in a Bengali silent film Joydeb(1926). Thereafter she worked in some more silent films. It took about 10 years for her to be noticed as an accomplished actor in the film Khooni Kaun (1936).
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