Archive for the ‘Calling the beloved’ Category
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Shree 420” (1955) but it seems that a few songs from this movie are yet to be discussed.
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“Dulaari” (1949) is today mainly rememebered as the movie which calapulted Rafi to the big league with his by now iconic song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. This movie had other nice songs in it as well. As many as five songs from this movie have been discussed in the blog.
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“Raat Ki Raani” (1949) is a movie which has been forgotten with time, but it has some nice songs in it. I have already discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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Aa aa bhi jaa raat dhalne lagi
Posted on: September 28, 2011
This is one of those songs that everyone is familiar with whether or not one is familiar with the details of the song. I too have heard this song countless times without being very sure which movie this song was from.
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Idhar to aao mere sarkaar
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie which was a Kuldip pictures production. It was directed by S K Ojha. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. But if IMDB is to be believed then Cuckoo, Jeewan and Kuldip Kaur were the stars of this movie. 🙂
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Aaja bicchde huye saajan
Posted on: September 1, 2011
“Nayi Kahaani” (1943) is a movie that had Jayraj, B Nandrekar, Rose, Banerji, Shalini, Master Chhotu etc in it.
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Chalaa hai kahaan
Posted on: August 21, 2011
I am aware of three movies called “Sanjog” and I have discussed songs from all three of these movies. I have discussed as many as five songs from “Sanjog” (1960). This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Anita Guha in lead roles.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hansraj Behl had a career in Hindi films that lasted from 1946 to 1979, and he was one of the more successful and popular music directors in the post independence years. Creator of many iconic songs in the 50s and 60s, Hansraj Bahl’s music has a semi classical touch, with roots in his earlier training in classical music. He has been a very active music director for Punjabi movies also, and there is a large number of very popular Punjabi films songs that are composed by him.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Nimmi in lead roles.
I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. This song is a rare song which is not available on youtube as far as I know.
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Ye raat ye nazaarey
Posted on: July 10, 2011
I am vaguely aware of this Hindi movie title called “Trolley Driver” (1958) and I have wondered about what this movie is all about. To this day, I am not much aware of the star cast of this movie or its story line.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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