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Sajanwa bhool hamen na jaana
Posted on: September 23, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Prahlad Keshav Atre, popularly known in Maharashtra as Acharya Atre (1898-1969) was a multi-talented personality of Maharashta. He was a writer, a playwright, a poet, an educationist, a journalist, a politician and producer-director-screen play & dialogue writer. During his association with Hindi films, Acharya Atre produced films like ‘Charnon Ki Daasi’ (1941), ‘Raja Rani’ (1942), ‘Vasantsena’ (1942), ‘Tasveer’ (1943), ‘Dil Ki Baat’ (1944), ‘Parinde’ (1945) and ‘Dulha’ (1946) under the banner of Atre Pictures.
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Sheetal chaandni khili khili
Posted on: September 22, 2016
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Baburao Patel, the fiery editor of ‘Filmindia’ magazine ( later known as ‘Mother India’) was associated with Hindi film industry since 1931. During 1931-35, he directed 5 films – “kismet’ (1931, Silent film), ‘Sati Mahananda’ (1933), ‘Maharani’ (1934), ‘Bala Joban’ (1934) and ‘Pardesi Saiyaan’ (1935) . However, with the starting of his monthly film magazine ‘Filmindia’ in 1935, Baburao Patel appeared to have taken a long sabbatical from Hindi film industry to concentrate on his editorial work. He again joined Hindi film industry in 1944 as producer and director of the film ‘Draupadi’ (1944), to promote Susheela Rani as actor-singer. This was followed by another film ‘Gwalan’ (1946).
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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
I am aware that Begum Para and Paro Devi are two different actresses. There is no same name confusion. Yet momentarily, I tend to get confused with the names of these two actresses. If someone to ask me as to which one of these two actresses was in the film ‘Neel Kamal’ (1947), I may have to think for a while before giving the correct answer, that is Begum Para.
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Dil ka tattoo ad jaata hai
Posted on: September 20, 2016
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Today’s song is from film Lalten-56. It is sung by Hemant kumar and Geeta Dutt.
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Internet allows us to share information as never before in history. Internet, if used properly and with care has the potential to add tremendously to our knowledge base. At the same time, we must guard against incorrect information that often gets spread on internet.
Coming to HFM, the subject of interest to us, a vast ocean of HFM is publicly available for us to enjoy. Thanks to HFM, we also know about the songs that we are missing.
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This article is written by Avinash Scrapwala, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
I received my first copy of HFGK in February 2015 and after that it become my routine to go through it as and when possible and search for songs covered on the blog as well as songs that were yet to be covered and other interesting information of movies from the decade of 1971-80.
There I took up this series of ‘Bhoole Bisre Geet’ – ‘The decades of Seventies 1971-1980’ which is still going on, and obviously it will take a long time till we have all the availablesongs from this decadecovered on the blog.
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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. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
What is the main feature in three sets of songs given below?
1(i). do dilon ko ek dil milaakar banaana yaad hai – Kamala (1946)
(ii). kat rahi hai bekasi mein har ghadi tere baghair – Deewaani (1947)
2(i). wo dekho udhar chaand nikla gagan mein – Roopkumari (1956)
(ii). nigaahon mein tum ho khayaalon mein tum ho – Jaadoo Nagri (1961)
(iii). ye tan man watan par nichhawar karenge – Kunwaari (1966)
3(i). aaj mausam ki masti mein gaaye pawan – Banarasi Thug (1962)
(ii). ek chameli ke mandve tale – Cha Cha Cha (1964)
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“Basre Ki Hoor”(1956) was produced by Wasti and directed by Majnu for Standard Films, Bombay. The B grade movie, which was described by a costume movie in HFGK had Chitra, Daljit, Chandrashekhar, Kamal, Wasti, Romi, Sheikh, Shakuntala, Radhika, Ramesh Thakur, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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Aa jaane bahaar aa jaa
Posted on: September 17, 2016
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“Paapi”(1953) was directed by Chandulal Shah for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Raj Kapoor and Nargis in lead roles, with Raj Kapoor playing a double role. The movie also had Dulaari, P Kailash, Maruti, Ramesh Thakur, Amarnath, Mehar Banu, Shrawan Kumar, Butaram Sharma etc in it.
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Jab tum hi hamen barbaad karo
Posted on: September 17, 2016
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Today (17 september 2016) is the 17th death anniversary of Hasrat Jaipuri (15 April 1922 – 17 Sept 1999).
Many music lovers may be forgiven for assuming that Hasrat Jaipuri mostly teamed up for Shankar Jaikishan and he hardly worked with other music directors. He has worked with most other big as well as not so big name music directors during his career.
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