Archive for the ‘Background song’ Category
Hindi movies often have background songs in them, which gets played at a critical juncture in the movie. Such songs may get played either at the beginning of the song, end of the song, or at some other important occasion.
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I watch TV sparingly, but yesterday when I was watching it for some time, I saw a programme dedicated to R D Burman. Through the programme I came to know that 27 june is R D Burman’s birthday.
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“Ram Rajya” (1967) is a movie that failed to do well at the box office because mainstream audiences of those days (and even today) by and large kept away from religious movies.
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Dekh lo aaj hamko jee bhar ke
Posted on: June 8, 2011
The dominant kind of music in 1980s was disco music. It was this kind of music that sounded the death knell of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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Duniyaa mein jeenaa hi padegaa
Posted on: June 1, 2011
“Hyderabad Ki Naazneen” (1952) is an obsure movie with equally obscure music. But I keep finding myself coming back to this discuss songs from this movie. The movie is studded with forgotten gems that few people are aware of.
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“Paakeezah” (1971) had music by Ghulam Mohammad, but he died after recording some songs. The remaining work of music direction , viz background music was done by Naushad.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The general memory of the 1969 movie, Saat Hindustaani, is linked to the fact that it was the debut movie for Amitabh Bachhan. However, in my mind, this movie is more associated with the writer director Khwaja Ahmed Abbas or KA Abbas. The Wikipeadia page on Abbas Saab contains very interesting information about this personality, e.g. fact like his family tree is traced back to Ayub Ansari, a close associate of Prophet Mohammed, and that his grandfather was one of the prominent soldiers in the 1857 uprising against the Britishers and a martyr, sentenced to be blown on a cannon, and that Abbas Saab is the great great great grandfather of Shahid Kapoor. Besides these familial facts, Abbas Saab has been a prolific writer and journalist, and a noted story writer and film maker in Hindi Cinema. His column ‘Last Page’ in ‘Blitz’, the Bombay based newspaper, ran from 1935 to 1987, the longest running column in the history of Indian journalism. He wrote 73 books in Hindi, Urdu and English, and is considered as one of the premier Urdu short story writers of the 20th century.
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Shrishti thhi anjaan
Posted on: April 20, 2011
“Stree”(1961) is a movie produced by V Shantaram and starring V Shantaram,Sandhya, Parda Chawan, Mumtaz etc. This movie, as well as its music may have been forgotten, but when I discovered the music of this movie some one year back, I loved it. And by now I have discussed as many as three songs from this movie.
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Sundarta ke sabhi shikaari
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Jogan” (1950) had as many as fifteen songs in it. And amazingly, all these songs became hugely popular and remain so to this date.
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Ye din kyaa aaye lage phool hansne
Posted on: April 4, 2011
When India won the final of the cricket world cup 2011 on 2nd of april, I was so overwhelmed (like millions others) that I was unable to concentrate on anything, and that included discussing songs on this blog. But I had promised to post happy songs in case India won the final, so I have been doing that today.
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