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Gham nahin gar zindagi veeraan hai
Posted on: August 1, 2012
Today (1 August) is Meena Kumari’s (1 August 1932- 31 march 1972) birth anniversary. She achieved so much despite passing away so young. Incredibly, she had a thirty year long acting career beginning from the age of seven ! She acted in nearly ninety movies. She began to act in adult roles from 1949 onwards and her breakthrough came in 1952 with “Baiju Baawra” (1952). She won the inaugural Filmfare best actress award for this performance.
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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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Dard bhari kisi ki yaad
Posted on: July 21, 2012
Here in this blog we discuss songs from Hindi movies on a daily basis. Since we discuss songs so it is natural that we discuss the people also who are involved in the making of these songs. They could be the singers, lyricists or the music directors, or they could be actors figuring in the picturisation of these songs. Rougly speaking, this blog by now had 6280 plus songs from 2000 plus movies. Over three hundred singers, over three hundred lyricists, and over two hundred music directors have been discussed in the blog so far. I have not counted the number of actors figuring in these songs, but that number is likely to be more than three hundreds as well.
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“Imaan” (1974) was a Guru Dutt pictures production. It was produced by Atmaram (younger brother of Guru Dutt). B Padmanabhan directed the movie. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Leena Chandavarkar, Anwar Hussain, Bhagwan, Keshto Mukherjee, Satyen Kappu, Johny Walkar, Murad, KrishnaKant, Mohan Choti, Bhushan Tiwari, Viju Khote, Asha Potdar, Aarti, Shivraj etc in it.
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Tum mere main teri
Posted on: July 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my school days, our Hindi teachers quite often used to mention about the troika of Hindi poets, Prasad-Pant-Nirala ( Jaishankar Prasad, Sumitranadan Pant and Suryakant Tripathi ‘Nirala’). They were the pioneers of ‘chhaayawadi’ (romanticism) movement in Hindi poetry. At a time when norms for writing Hindi poetry were different, these poets created a niche for themselves and set a new standard for Hindi poetry. About four decades later, a similar troika of poets was continuing the tradition of writing poetry in similar style but for Hindi films. The poetry was written in simple words for the benefit of masses. In doing so, they extended their coverage beyond ‘chhaayawad’ to include social issues, philosophy of life etc. These poets also created a niche for themselves at a time when the Hindi film songs were mostly written in Hindustani ( mix of Hindi and Urdu words). Pandit Bharat Vyas was one among the troika of poets who wrote lyrics for Hindi film songs, the other two being Pandit Narendra Sharma and Kavi Pradeep.
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Aa jaa jaan e jaan
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne” (1964) was produced and directed by V Shantaram. This movie introduced Rajshree (daughter of V Shantaram) alongwith Jeetendra. The movie also had Surendra Bharati, Nana Palsikar, K. Date, C. H. Atma, Babloo etc in it.
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Ham hain nashe mein
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Sehra” (1963) was a Shantaram Production movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Prashant, Sandhya, Mumtaz, Ullhas, Manmohan Krishna, Baburao Pendharkar, K. Date, M. Rajan, Lalita Pawar, Babloo etc in it.
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Aise machal ke nain badal ke
Posted on: July 3, 2012
Today (3 july) is the death anniversary of Raj Kumar. Raj Kumar made his debut as an actor in 1950s and his most productive decade as an actor was the decade of 1960s. There are actors who are remembered for songs picturised on him, but Raj Kumar is often remembered for some of the immortal dialogues picturised on her. For instance, the dialogue of “Waqt” (1975)- “ye bacchon ke khelne ki cheez nahin hai Chunar seth…”, and the “Paakeeja” (1971) dialogue’ “Aape paaon dekhe…”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ek gaana hai, kareeb chaalis saal puraana – “Chain Se Humko Kabhi, Aap Ne Jeene Ne Diyaa” . From the film ‘Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye’. And the year is 1973. Yes getting to be about 40 years ago. But listening to this song, even today – the sound, the feelings, and the words – all appear to be so young and so fresh. And the lyricist – composer pair is SH Behari and OP Nayyar. A partnership that started in the mid 50s, and flowered exceptionally in the decade of 60s to give so many memorable songs one after another.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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