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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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There are occasions when one listens to songs and likes them without being aware of the name of the movie the song belongs to. In fact there are some movies that manage to remain non descript and obscure despite containing some really fine songs in it.
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Though I am aware of most songs from “Mother India” (1957), I was just not aware about this song from the movie. In fact, I was not aware that Manna Dey had sung a song in this movie.
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“Harishchandra Taramati” (1963) was a mythological movie in which Prithviraj Kapoor and Jaimala had played the lead (and title) roles with Bablu playing their son.
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I just realised that today 31st october is S D Burman’s death anniversary.He was born on the first of october, 1906 and he died on 31st of october 1975.
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Main pal do pal ka shaayar hoon
Posted on: October 25, 2010
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“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) is a movie whose music was quite unlike the music prevalent in Hindi movies at that time. The music of this movie had a retro feel about it and music lovers liked that. The songs of this movie became popular and they in fact have outlived most songs of that era.
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