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Jalwe tumhaare hon meri ho nazar
Posted on: January 14, 2012
While looking at the picturisation of this song, I wondered why this song does not qualify to be called a Mujra song. As it is, Mujra songs are those songs where the clients are ordinary folks or spoilt nawaabs. If the same dance is performed in a royal court, it becomes a royal court (Rajdarbaar) dance.
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“Yaadon Ki Baaraat” (1973) was a movie which had a lost and found story where three brothers get orphaned (their parents murdered by the villain) and then they get separated. The brothers later grow up, take revenge on the villain and get reunited.
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So jaa baaba mere so jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
Lullabies are a much loved category of songs in Hindi movies. Most lullabies are sung by female singers as one would expect. But there are exceptions where male singers too have sung lullabies.
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Nainon ki nagri mein aa ke
Posted on: December 26, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Welcome all to the 5200th offering on this blog. An enchanting journey that continues to grow from strength to strength, has reached another landmark today. It seemed just like yesterday that we hit the 5000 mark (it was on 13th November), and lo, we are already 200 songs even beyond that magic number today. Congratulations to all, and especially to Atul ji, for being the consistent driving force behind this effort. Besides being the 5200th post, this write up also celebrates the century of songs on this blog, by the music director Hansraj Behl.
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Maajhi naiyya dhoondhe kinaaraa
Posted on: December 22, 2011
“Uphaar” (1971) is a Rajshree Productions movie. This movie was directed by Sudhendu Roy. The actors in this movie were Kamini Kaushal, Nana Palsikar, Aarti, Jaya Bhadhuri, Swaroop Dutt, Nandita Takur, Suresh Chatwal, Leela Mishra, Ratna Mala, Lata Arora, Minu Mehtab, Yunus Parwaiz, Shail Chathurvedi etc.
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“Sone Ki Chidiya”(1958) is a movie which was a Film India Corporation presentation. It was directed by Shahid Latif. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Dhumal, Altaf, Mehmood, Amar, Bikram Kapoor, Zebunissa etc in it.
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This is the 5000th song writeup for the blog. This writeup is written by not one or two, but three enthusiasts of Hindi movie music , namely Raja, Sudhir as well as by me.
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Raja’s writeup
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Every now and then, we lovers of this blog like to get together in this space and celebrate a milestone or landmark that this blog has achieved.
It may be a landmark to celebrate a particular artist’s hundredth (or even thousandth) song on this blog. Or it may be a landmark to celebrate yet another “century” on the blog song-count itself.
Recently, as we have now got multiple contributors to this blog, we have also celebrated “centuries” by contributors.
Each one of these milestones always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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Muhabbat ki daastaan aaj suno
Posted on: November 12, 2011
I became aware of this song accidentally while I was searching the details of another song of this movie. My search led me to this article on songs of Mayur Pankh (1954) by Richard S.
A little more digging up reveals that I may have inadvertently stumbled upon a movie that is a trivia buff’s delight.
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“Rasiya” (1950) is a movie that was never released. This movie, which had Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy in lead roles had a few songs recorded and released though.
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Jo waqt pe kaam aa jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2011
“Farishta”(1958) is a Pancholi Productions movie which was directed by Ravindra Dave. The star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Mubarak, Nana Palsikar, Anita Guha, Murad, Mehmood , Sheikh, Mridula etc.
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