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Sajjad Hussain, regarded as the only original music director of Hindi movies, was a temperamental genius who would brook no interference in his creative work and leave movies in a huff if he felt that his producers were interfering in his work. As a result, there are several movies where he composed one or two songs before he would leave the movie.
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Laage jisko wohi ye dukh jaane
Posted on: December 12, 2010
I have discussed over 3300 songs in this blog and more songs are being added every day. With so many songs in the blog, there is ample scope for interesting statistics about these songs.
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When I began this blog, I discussed songs at the rate of one song per day. Soon I began to discuss more songs every day. With time, I created pages to keep the list of songs in some order. Now there are pages that list songs by movie, by music director as well as by year.
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Tod ke do nainon ka taalaa
Posted on: November 25, 2010
Most people may be under the impression that Helen appeared in cabarat/ club dance kind of songs throughout her career and that Asha Bhonsle was the playback singer for her in these songs.
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Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. Music directors like C Ramchandra and Vinod, to mention a few, were composing quite a few rock and roll kind of songs those days.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music began in late 1940s and lasted till late 1970s. There are very few music directors who were around when the golden era began and who lasted almost the entire period of this golden era. The one music director who was around for almost the entire duration and whose was S D Burman.
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This post is written by Raja, a regular contributor of posts to this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs
Today is a very special day for this very special blog. It is a day that we celebrate not just one milestone for the blog but two. And two really special milestones too.
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