Archive for the ‘Bhajan’ Category
Nand nandan bilmaai
Posted on: January 28, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the birth day of playback singer Suman Kalyanpur. She is a living example of how the career of a talented singer can be marred by a close resemblance of the voice of the numero uno singer in the field, in her case Lata Mangeshkar. Naturally, film industry preferred the reigning queen rather than giving enough opportunity to Suman Kalyanpur to prove her worth. She was mostly used as a substitute for Lata Mangeshkar when the latter was not available for recording the songs. Alternatively, she would get the singing assignments in low budget films. In the circumstances, I thought that she would have utilised her spare time in recording many NFSs. I find that even in respect of NFSs, Suman Kalyanpur is lagging in numbers in comparison to other top playback singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh etc. Was she really interested in pursuing playback singing career ? She is known to be a very private and low profile person. Only those who were close to her could get to know her mind. It took Ameen Sayani more than 40 years to persuade her to give an interview for a radio programme. Subsequently, she has given a couple of interviews through which we have come across some more information about her singing career.
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Mittar pyaare nu
Posted on: January 19, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
[NOTE: With apologies to the readers, this write up could not be completed on time to be posted on 18-01-2013, the actual date of this anniversary, and is being posted one day later.]
This day, the Paush Shukal Saptami (the seventh day of the waxing moon cycle of the month of Paush), is a very special day. Today we celebrate the anniversary of birth, of one of the most illustrious and influential persona in the history of our nation. A great teacher who was a poet, a philosopher, an ascetic and yes, a fearless warrior. He taught universal love and brotherhood, inspired his followers to treat their fellow beings at a humanistic level, without differentiating based on caste, creed or beliefs. A rarest of the rare human beings who walked this earth, he lived in this physical world just for 42 years, but his accomplishments and his lasting inspiration for the human race defy the endeavors of many a life time of ordinary mortals.
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Shakti de maa
Posted on: December 29, 2012
“Ashanti” (1982) was produced and directed by Umesh Mehra. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mithun Chakraborty, Zeenat Aman, Parveen Babi,Amrish Puri, Shabana Azmi etc.
Today (29 december 2012) is the 70th birth anniversary of Rajesh Khanna. On this occasion, here is a song from “Ashanti” (1982).
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Deendayaal sakal dukhbhanjan
Posted on: December 27, 2012
This article is written by Vidur Sury, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Thanks to Atul Sir, now I have the pleasure of writing a series on songs by immortal singer Amirbai Karnataki Ji.
My first song will be the earliest among those not yet on this blog, and this is from Narsi Bhagat (1940), one of her early famous films.
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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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