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“Aman” (1967) was an Emkay productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh etc in it.
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Shaam huyi o panchhi aa
Posted on: March 23, 2013
“Maa Baap” (1944) had Nazir Khan, Veena, Rajkumari Shukla, Yakub in it. One song from this by now obscure movie has been discussed in the past.
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Ud jaa re ud jaa papeehe
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Vish Kanya” (1943) was a Ranjit Production movie. The movie was directed by Kidar Sharma. It had Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Prithviraj kapoor, Kamla, Leela Mishra, Sulochana, Brijmala etc in it.
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Kaali koyal boley
Posted on: February 28, 2013
“Saudaamini” (1950) was a National Screen production. It was directed by P C Joshi. This obscure movie had Cuckoo, Leela Chitnis, P. Joshi, Sona Chatterji, Bikram Kapoor, Zubeida etc in it.
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Phulbagiya mein bulbul boley
Posted on: February 7, 2013
“Rani Roopmati” (1959) was a Ravikala Chitra Production movie. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Chonker, Ullhas, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Amarnath etc in it.
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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.
While surfing on the internet last night, I came across a reference to the book ‘The Tenth Rasa : An Anthology of Indian Nonsense’ (2007). The title of the book evoked interest in me but there was no way to know in what context the word ‘nonsense’ was used. I could not locate an E-version or abridged version of this book on the internet but found a review of this book. The book is all about Indian nonsensel literature – prose, poetry, jingles which has a rich history in oral and folk forms. Most of them have been passed on to the next generation by words of mouth. It is a nonsense literature from the point of view of laureates belonging to the elite society for whom the literature has to be meaningful. In that way, the term ‘nonsense’ seems to have been used for meaningless literature. According to the authors of this book, nonsense literature is the base for sensible literature as the former is intuitive and flows quite naturally like the relationship between mother and child.
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Kaaga re jaa re jaa re
Posted on: January 17, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Until 1970, I was only aware of old Hindi film songs from popular films like ‘Mahal’ (1949), ‘Barsaat’ (1949),’Malhar’ (1951),’Baiju Bawara’ (1952), ‘Ashiana’ (1952), ‘Patita’ (1953), ‘Anarkali’ (1953), ‘Seema’ (1955) and many more of such films. It was only when I was initiated by a friend into some lesser known gems from the films which I have never heard of, my interest in such songs grew. My friend used to arrange periodic meetings of like minded persons, mostly in his house. He had a mind boggling collections of such songs in 78 RPM gramophone records ( I guess, it was nearly 1000 in numbers). He had also had some audio cassettes containing lesser known songs recorded from Radio Ceylon and also from 78 RPM records held by some of his friends. During those meetings, he would select some rare songs and play on his Gerard record changer attached to his radiogram followed by discussions. Since I was a novice in this segment of old Hindi film songs, I was only a listener to those discussions. Later, I became aware of the fact that behind tha facade of popular old Hindi film songs, there exists a big store of lesser known jewels.
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“Veer Rajputani” (1955) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by J B H Wadia. The movie had Manhar Desai, Shakila, S. N. Tripathi, Bipin Gupta, Helen, Meenakshi, B. M. Vyas, Anwar Hussein, Babu Raje, Sharda etc in it.
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Nainon ke ye do panchhi
Posted on: October 11, 2012
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Today (11 October) is the 70th birth anniversary of Amitabh Bachchan. He was born this day in 1942.
Today he is a well established legend, but his beginnings were quite shaky and uninspiring. In fact, he had delivered a string of flop movies and he was on the verge of packing up and going back when “Zanjeer” (1973) was released and it became a hit. And after that Amitabh Bachchan did not have to look back.
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Pyaar ki nanhi maina chehke
Posted on: October 1, 2012
“Waapas” (1969) was a S S Chitra Mandir Presentation. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ajay, Satyajit, Kishwar, Azra, Leela Mishra, Shekhar Purohit, Parveen Paul, Jankidas, Chandrima Bhaduri, Alka, Kumud Tripathi etc in it.
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