Archive for the ‘Bhajan’ Category
Suno Radheshyam
Posted on: December 25, 2012
“Shri Naqad Narayan” (1955) , a light hearted movie was a Kamdhenu Pictures Production. It was directed by I S Johar. The movie had Motilal, Meena, Majnu, Leela Misra, Naaz, Murad, Om Prakash, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Sun sun sun sun maanush bhaai
Posted on: December 23, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Unknown composers Composer 7-Hiren Bose
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Hindi films and Hindi Music always played a bigger role than just entertaining people.It helped to keep a common thread between Indian people and lovers of Hindi films and music all over the world. Those music lovers who left India and settled in different countries all over the Globe and those music lovers of undivided India, separated now in various countries accross the borders have always cherished the melody of sweet songs of Yore !
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“Madhu” (1959) waa a Maya Art Pictures production movie. It was directed by S Bannerji and Gyan Mukherji. The movie had Karan Dewan, Meena Kumari, Kumkum, Tuntun, Jagdish Sethi, Sailen Bose etc in it.
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Ae ri main to prem deewaani
Posted on: December 13, 2012
“Meera” (1979) was produced by Premji and J N Manchanda and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Amjad Khan, Bharat Bhushan, Dr Shreeram Lagoo, Dina Pathak etc in it.
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When one looks at the songs picturised on Dilip Kumar, one finds that Dilip Kumar, for much of his career had lip synced mainly in the voices of Talat Mehmood, Mukesh and Rafi. In addition, he had also sung in the voices of G M Durrani and C Ramchandra. Then he had sung for himself as well in a few songs.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my younger days, I disliked the traditional classical vocal music as I had no patience to listen to a couple of verses umpteen times with longish alaaps. I used to feel that the ‘progression’ in the vocal music was too slow for me to get interested in listening to such recitals. However, I liked the filmy and non-filmy songs based on classical ragas as those would get over in about 3 minutes. My taste on traditional classical vocal music changed when I bought a LP of Pandit D V Paluskar in early 70s mainly for 5 devotional songs contained in the one side, the other side being his full length vocal recital on raag Shri. This LP was a turning point for me and I started liking Hindustani classical music. I felt that he must be a great classical vocalist whose vocal music sounded great to my untrained ears.
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“Meera” (1979) was a Suchitra International Production. It was Produced by Premji and directed by Gulzar. The movie had Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Amjad Khan, Shammi Kapoor, Vidya Sinha, Dina Pathak, Dr.Shree Ram Lagoo, OmShiv Puri, Bharat Bhooshan, A.K.Hangal, Dinesh Thakur, Sudha Chopra, Kamal Deep, T.P.Jain, Gauri Kamat, Gurbachan Singh, Shahu Modak, Nasir, Maqsood, J.N.Manchanda, Ashish Chatterjee, Sadhana Khote etc in it.
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Hari aao Hari aao
Posted on: November 24, 2012
Today (24 november) is Amol Palekar’s 67th birthday. Unlike most other heroes, who played larger than life characters in movies, Amol Palekar played the roles of a man next door who has problems and worries like the rest of us. And that is what helped him get his fan following among movie watchers who were intested in watching simple uncomplicated movies.
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Ab to Madhav mohe ubaar
Posted on: November 22, 2012
This article is wrtitten by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Among the singers of devotional songs, one name that comes to my mind is Lakshmi Shankar. It was almost a daily ritual for me to listen to one of her devotional (bhajan) songs almost every day in the morning on All India Radio, Bombay (Mumbai). At that time, I had no inkling that she was a classical dancer and later a renowned classical vocalist of Patiala Gharana. I was not even aware that she belonged to the illustrious Shankar family.
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