Archive for the ‘Bhajan’ Category
Jaaun to kahaan jaaun
Posted on: June 27, 2012
Today (27 june) is the birth anniversary of R D Burman, who was easily the most influential music director during the time I was growing up in late 1960s and for entire 1970s. His dominance was so total that most other music directors had to change their music to sound like R D Burman. I too k it almost for granted that any song that I liked those days had to be a composition of R D Burman.
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Bhajo re bhaiyya Ram Govind Hari
Posted on: June 5, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Kehat Kabeer Suno Bhai Saadho. . .’
A refrain that is now a well known by line by which one can recognize that a particular bhajan is by Kabeer. A name that is now a household word wherever Hindi is spoken and understood. And a poet whose verses and dohas (couplets) have found their way into the everyday spoken Hindi, as proverbs and adages. Yesterday, the Jayeshtha Poornima, was the birth anniversary of this great poet saint of India.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
For those not at all religious, only a sublime expression of nishkaam bhakti (unconditional devotion without any desire or expectation of recompense) may possibly move them.
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Paalanhaare Raam hain
Posted on: May 29, 2012
“Dil Ek Mandir”(1963) was a Chitralaya Production presentation. It was directed by Sridhar and it had Rajendra Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raj Kumar, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Achla Sachdev etc.
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Main to Ram ratan dhan paayo
Posted on: May 28, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Many have sung Meera bhajans – from classical greats like M.S. Subbulakshmi to Bollywood greats such as Lata Mangeshkar … and so many in between – and to their credit. But for me, Juthika Roy’s vocals and expression seem to be made for Meera bhajans. Her Meera numbers touch even my atheist heart! Juthika Roy’s private numbers are galore, but she seems to have sang for only three movies: Lalkar (1944) under the baton of C Ramchandra, Ratnadeep (1952) under Robin Chatterjee (Hindi and Bangla versions) and the Bangla movie Dhooli (1954) under Ranjan Sarkar.
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Saanchaa naam teraa
Posted on: May 1, 2012
Achala Sachdev (born 3 may 1920- died 30 april 2012) died yesterday. She was 91 and she was three days short of completing 92 years. She started her film career at a young age, as a child actor in fact, but it is as a filmy mother that she is remembered the most.
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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, my uncle used to play M S Subbulakshmi’s (MS) LPs of Venkateshwara Suprabhatam or Vishnu Sahastranamam early morning every day which I used to resent as it became virtually a wake-up alarm for me. But as days passed, I not only started liking her renditions, some of its verses got stored in my mind.
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Manmohana tu jo bhi de
Posted on: April 6, 2012
When one is disturbed, there is nothing like a soothing bhajan to calm one’s nerves. The music and the singing of the bhajan has a calming influence on the mind, and the philosophical content of the lyrics makes us see things in perspective. Bhajans make us realise that living creatures (including humans) are mortals and we are mere puppets in the grand scheme of things. Things are not supposed to work out according to our wishes, so we should better reconcile ourselves with whatever is in store for us.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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