Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
Chaand raat tum ho saath
Posted on: November 19, 2012
Most Hindi movies tend to be made on “serious” topics. Light hearted fun movies are are quite few because making such movies obviously takes more skill and ability than making movies of mainstream topics.
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Aurat ek kahaani maiyya
Posted on: November 15, 2012
“Vishwas” (1943) was produced under the banner of Wadia Movietone. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Surendra, Mehtab, Trilok Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterji, Nayampalli, Gulab, Baby Madhuri etc in it.
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Plagiarism, or what is euphemistically called “taking inspiration” is nothing new for hindi movies. We have instances of movies which have been lifted frame by frame from movies from some other countries, and that too without acknowleding the fact. And in case people come to know about such acts, the makers of the plagiarised movie are often quite defiant about it and refuse to acknowledge the fact.
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Man saaf tera hai ya nahin
Posted on: November 12, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of Talkie films the Film Companies which were well known were Imperial, New Theatres, British Dominion, Kohinoor, Krishna, Maharashtra, Ranjit, Saraswati, Sharada film company etc. Most of these companies continued from the silent era. Slowly many film companies stopped or got merged with existing companies. But one name stood out even in those days and that was PRABHAT FILM COMPANY or PFC.
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Nazar se jab ye nazar mili hai
Posted on: November 11, 2012
“Gawaiyya” (1954) was an R B Productions movie. It was directed by H P Sharma. The movie had Surendra, Vijaylaxmi, Sulochana Latkar, Jeevan, Kumkum, D K Sapru, Sundar, Heera Sawant etc in it.
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Palat tera dhyaan kidhar hai
Posted on: November 7, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Laughter is a symbol of happy mood or joy. It is an important segment of ‘NAVRASAS’ as HASYA. Even the original writer Bharatmuni has described Hasya as an important element of Navaras, in his Natyashastra. That is why , probably, that many kings and Rajahs used to appoint a court Jester or Vidushak, who would ease the tension in the court by causing mirth.
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Sakhi prem sudha bhar ke aayi
Posted on: November 6, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The era of silent films in India started in 1913, when 2 films were made-Raja Harishchandra and Mohini Bhasmasur. One would think that this must have started a spate of Silent films, but surprisingly, in 1914, 1915 and 1916 only 1 Silent Film each was produced. From 1916 it started with 5 films till 1931, when the age of Talkies arrived with Alam Ara.
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Dil ki duniya jagmagaayi
Posted on: November 5, 2012
“Daak Babu” (1954) was a Jubilee Pictures Production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Talat Mehmood, Nadira, Radhakrishan, Kuldip Kaur, Yashodhara Katju, Manmohan Krishnan etc in it.
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Jhingaapur taakur taakur
Posted on: November 4, 2012
“Aasheerwaad” (1968) was a Film Enterprise Production. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Sumita Sanyal, Abhi Bhattacharya, Leela Gandhi, Sajjan, Veena, S. N. Banerjee, Bipin Gupta, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Padma Khanna etc in it.
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Hum bechaare pyaar ke maare
Posted on: November 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Imagine that you reached someplace where a song is playing, probably on a radio. But unfortunately it seems you have missed almost the entire song. What you hear as you get into listening range is just the last one or two lines playing. The words you hear do not seem to be part of the main song lyrics. And the words you hear do not seem to make a coherent sentence. You may just skip the thought and move on. Or if you are more Hindi-film-music inclined, you would start to wonder what the song was and who would have been the singer of this song, of which you have heard just a snippet.
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