Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
Ye ruki ruki hawaayen
Posted on: April 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ever since I heard the songs from film ‘Badi Maa'(1945) about four decades ago, I have been a fan of music director Datta Korgaonkar (known as K Datta). It is stated that when his songs from ‘Badi Maa’ were heard by some of his contemporary music directors, they were so impressed by his compositions, especially ‘diya jalaaker aap bujhaaye’ that music directors like Shyam Sundar, Anil Biswas, Ghulam Haider and Rafiq Ghazanvi personally visited his house and congratulated him. During the last few days, I have been going through his songs on the internet and I found his compositions and orchestration of songs somewhat different from what was prevalent during his time. K Datta was active in the film industry between 1943-1956 during which time he composed music only for a dozen films but he churned out mostly good songs though they may not have become very popular among the masses. His last film as a music director was ‘Ajnabi’ (1966).
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“Chamak Chandni” (1957) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a Chitra Bharati Limited production. Chimanlala Trivedi was the producer and the movie was directed by Manibhai Vyas. The movie had Mahipal, Shaikla, Tiwari, Chandrashekhar, Maruti, Niranjan Sharma, Helen, Purnima etc in it.
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Jaao na sataao rasiyaa
Posted on: April 28, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The mention of the title “Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja” would immediately bring to mind the 1993 film starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi. But no, we are talking about an earlier incarnation of this title, well almost 32 years earlier. Even though the year was 1961, and even though the lead pair of Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman were well established in their careers, yet this film, ‘Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja’ (1961) failed to make an impact on the box office. And now, when one mentions this name, people do not readily connect to the earlier film. In other words, it has become an obscure entity, that many people do not remember now.
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In Hindi movies of the golden era, there was this common enough situation where the lead pair would carry out their romantic pursuits silently without even talking, and obviously without even singing a song. So what would happen in such circumstances ? Very conveniently, a two to three persons troupe would appear on the road (one carrying a harmonium- compulsory, other carrying a dholak-optional, but desirable, and a female dancer- highly desirable, but often optional)and they would sing a song, and the words of the songs would express the feelings of the shy duo.
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Kyun jee aakhir kaun ho tum
Posted on: April 27, 2012
“Reshmi Roomaal” (1961) was a Zar productions movie. It was directed by Harsukh Bhatt. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Shakila, Helen, Shivraj, Maruti, Shammi, Kamal Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterji, Jankidas, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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Piyaa aaja re dil mera pukaare
Posted on: April 27, 2012
“Footpath”(1953) was a Ranjit Movie Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Anwar Hussein, Ramesh Thapar, Achla Sachdev, Ramesh Thakur, Kuldip Kaur, Akhtar Farooqui, P. Kailash, Jankidas, Maruti, Sumati Lajmi etc in it.
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Pyaaraa hindola mera
Posted on: April 26, 2012
“Us Paar” (1974) is an obscure movie by now, even though this movie is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Cine Eye Films Production. It was produced and directed by Basu Chatterji. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Mausami Chatterji, Raja Paranjape, Padma Khanna, Jalal Agha, Lalita Kumari, Paintal, A.K.Hangal etc in it.
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Chanda ke paas ik taara
Posted on: April 26, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sometimes a rhythm, a tune just sticks into the mind and keeps replaying itself over and over again. This is what has happened, when I bumped into this song two days ago. I was preparing for a write up on Shailendra, having identified other songs (which I will post later now). And then found this song – “dar a dad a daa a dad daaraa, chandaa ke paas ik taara”. The rhythm just refuses to go away from my mind, even though it is a tongue twisting formation, and the mind does stumble sometimes, when trying to go over it. A real foot tapping, ear catching melody that just stays with you once you have heard it.
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