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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Parbat Pe Apna Dera (1944) is one of the more important creations of V Shantaram. The film deals with the concept of ‘maya’ the enduring allurement of the material world that spares no one. The theme also deals with the consequences fo desires, which are mostly painful and damaging. Briefly, Ulhas is an ascetic who lives alone on a hilltop, and does not allows any visitors or passersby to come to him. Once, Vanmala chances to come face to face with this ascetic, in one of her treks. She is injured, and the ascetic has some cure that relieves her of pain. She is the daughter of a rich person, probably used to having her way. She insists on continuing to meet Ulhas, against his wishes, and continues to bring him gifts, almost setting up a household on the hilltop, once where there was an abode of renunciation. One thing leads to another, and the ascetic ties the nuptial knot with this rich lady, leaves his ‘parbat’ (symbolically the high vantage point of human experience), and comes down to ‘civilization’ to live with his newfound family.
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Wo dekho dekh rahaa thhaa papeehaa
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Fariyaad” (1964) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie had Ashok Sharma, Zeb Rehman,Nazima, Tuntun, Achla Sachdev etc. The movie was different from the usual mainstream Hindi movies and it fared badly at the box office.
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Udte huye panchhi
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Suraiyya sang her first playback song for another actress at the age of 13. That was for Mehtab who was then 17 years of age. Mehtab (who incidentally was K Asif’s wife), on finding that her playback was being given by a 13 year old kid, got mad at her producers.
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I have discussed a song from “Saawan Aaya Re”(1949) in the past. Here is another song from this movie. The song shows a lady asking the man (Kishore Sahu) to marry her whereas the man who is having a parallel affair with her sister as well, naturally tries to stall her, asking her that there is all the time in the world for all that and one should rather spend that time in activities such and singing and dancing. On his prompting, this song and dance commences.
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Subah huyi har panchhi jaage
Posted on: December 14, 2010
“Daasi” (1944) seems to have some amazing songs in it that deserve to be discussed in these pages.
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Ummeed bharaa panchhi
Posted on: October 4, 2010
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are singing voices. Then there are voices that sing. And then there is SD Burman – affectionately Sachin Da, or just plain Dada, to most people in the industry, a voice that stands apart from everyone else.
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Mere mundere na bol jaa kaagaa
Posted on: September 21, 2010
“Parwaanaa” (1947) was a movie starring K L Saigal and Suraiyya. I have posted three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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I have posted all but one song from “Madhumati” (1958) so far. This movie is arguably one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all time in Hindi movie history. Here is the last song from this movie that was yet to be posted.
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Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re
Posted on: August 2, 2010
Here is another song that I first became aware of only a few hours ago.
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Ambuaa ki daari pe bole re koyaliyaa
Posted on: May 3, 2010
“Dahej”(1950) is a movie about whose existence I became aware after the farmaishes of an oldtimer reader (Dr Vyas) of this blog. And I am glad that I became aware of this movie. What wonderful songs this movie has !
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