Archive for the ‘Calling the beloved’ Category
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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Kit gaye ho khewanhaar
Posted on: August 18, 2011
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936), a movie produced by Himanshu Rai was a movie on a daring subject of its time, viz untouchability. And the movie turned out to be a landmark movie on several counts.
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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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Sun man ke meet more prem geet
Posted on: June 28, 2011
Most nice songs usually become popular. Or is it really so ? There is much legwork involved before the songs of a movie can become popular. The movie, as well as its songs need to arouse the curiosity of public before their release. For that the movie and its songs need to be marketed. In case the movie has saleable stars and the movie is made by a well known production house with deep pockets, then the songs of that movie stand a good chance of being heard.
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Ab to aa jaao
Posted on: June 17, 2011
“Raakhi” (1949) is a movie about which very little information is available online. I became aware of this movie when I came across a few songs from this movie.
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Kahaan hai tu mere sapnon ke raaja
Posted on: May 27, 2011
“Afsaanaa” (1951) is a movie that had Ashok Kumar and Veena in lead roles.It also had Pran,Kuldeep Kaur,Jeewan, Cuckoo etc in it. This movie was a musical blockbuster and I have discussed as many as seven songs from this movie in the past.
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“Lala Rukh”(1958) is a movie that had Shyama, Talat Mehmood, Vikram Kapoor, Radhika, Lotan, Jagdish Kamal, Tuntun, Ranibala etc in it. Yes, those were the day when Talat Mehmood, like Mukesh, was trying to become an actor-singer. Both of them suffered financially as well as in their singing careers, before they finally reconciled themselves to opt for just singing careers.
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“Raahi” (1953) was a movie that was based on Mulkraj Anand’s novel “Ek Kali Aur Do Pattiyaan”(Two leaves and a bud). Dev Anand and Nalini Jaiwant were the main lead in this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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