Archive for the ‘Dance song’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6502 | Post No. : | 20208 |
‘Thief of Baghdad’ (1968) was produced by Ramkumar Bohra and was directed by Shreeram Bohra. The cast included Dara Singh, Nishi, Helen, Savita, Jeevankala, P. Kailash, B.M. Vyas, Shaikh, Ram Kumar, Maqbool, Sunanda, Amrit Rana, Jilani, Sarita Devi, Munshi Munakka, Bijnor, Ramesh Kant, Johnny Whiskey, Dilip Dutt, Maruti, Rani, Saudagar Singh, Gani, Mohammad Ali, B. Sandow, Gulab, Mansoor, Mohammad Ali Steelman, Vimla, Khursheed etc.
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Lo hamen haan baahon mein
Posted on: May 5, 2026
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This article is the 20200th post in the blog on 6500th day of existence of the blog.
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6500 | Post No. : | 20200 |
Asha Bhonsle singing for actresses whose names begin with “A”
Asha Bhonsle passed away recently and many people paid tributes to her in various ways. One tribute that caught my eye was a video that carried snippets of 35 Asha Bhonsle songs picturised on 25 different actresses. The actresss were well known and the songs were well known too.
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Kanta dha kanta dha kanta dha
Posted on: May 5, 2026
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6500 | Post No. : | 20198 |
I am presenting a song mixed with taraana and sargam, ‘kanta dha kanta dha kanta dha’ from ‘Sangeet Samrat Tansen’ (1962). It is a jugalbandi between Tansen (Bharat Bhushan) as singer and the dancer Naaz Parveen (Sabita Chatterjee) in the court of Raja (D K Sapru) of Rewa Kingdom.
The story of the film is majorly concentrated around Tansen and his childhood friend, Hansa (Anita Guha). Tansen is devoted to Hansa as well as to his music. So, he is always caught in a dilemma. As a result, most of the time, Hansa gets separated from Tansen because of the calls from his musical duties. In a way, their relationship is akin to that of Radha and Shyam.
When Tansen decides to get married to Hansa for the first time, his Guru, Mohammed Ghous (David) instructs him to join the royal court on an invitation from Raja of Rewa. After a few months, when he gets permission from Raja of Rewa to get married to Hansa, Shahenshah Akbar (S N Tripathi) orders Raja of Rewa to send Tansen to be one of his ‘navratnas’ in his court. Even though Raja of Rewa decides to reject the demand inviting the potential wrath from Akbar, Tansen decides to reluctantly accept the invitation as rejecting that would create problems for Raja of Rewa. After joining the court of Akbar, Hansa joins Tansen and Akbar has planned for their marriage in Delhi. However, a misunderstanding between Hansa and Tansen about his relationship with dancer Naaz Parveen who is, in reality Tansen’s disciple, forces her to leave Tansen and return to the ashram of Swami Haridas. They are united only after Tansen faints while singing Raag Deepak which revives Akbar’s daughter (Preeti Bala). It is dancer, Naaz Parveen who clears Hansa’s misunderstanding about her and requests her to be with Tansen who is slated to sing Raag Deepak. After hearing this, Hansa accompanies Naaz Parveen and rushes to Delhi. Seeing an unconscious Tansen, she sings Raag Megh Malhar and revives him.
The context of the song under discussion is that Tansen wants to get married to his childhood friend, Hansa after his musical training gets over both from his Guru, Mohammed Ghous and Swami Haridas (M Kumar). Tansen pays a visit to his Guru, Mohammed Ghous to take his permission to marry Hansa. However, his Guru reveals that Raja Ramchandra of Rewa Kingdom has invited him to be the court singer. Adhering to his Guru’s instructions, Tansen joins the court of Raja of Rewa where he gets the title of ‘Sangeet Shiromani Tansen’. On this occasion, Naaz Parveen, the Raj Nartaki (Royal Dancer) from the court of the kingdom of Orchha gives a dance performance on the taraana rendered by Tansen. Later, it turns out to be a jugalbandi between the dancer and the singer.
The dance starts with a taraana of rhythmic syllables after which it gets switched over to a duet song between the singer and the dancer. Towards the end, once again, the singer switches over to taraana with faster rhythmic syllables which the dancer is not able to match and she loses her balance. Later, she becomes Tansen’s disciple.
In some places, I have not been able to decipher the rhythmic syllables in which cases I have only indicated them as ‘rhythmic syllables’.
Video Clip:
Audio Clip:
Song-Kanta dha kanta dha (Sangeet Samrat Tansen)(1962) Singer-Manna Dey, Unknown female voice, Lyricist-Shailendra, MD-S N Tripathi
Lyrics (Based on Video Clip):
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha..aa
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
ta na na na
tanum
tanum
tanum
ta na tir kit
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
sa ni ma pa dha
pa dha
re sa
sa ni dha
sa sa ma
sa pa ni dha ma
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir ta na ra tir kit dum
ta na na na
tir kit dum
tanum
tanum
tanum
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
kanta dha
[Rhythmic Syllables]
thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
thrik thrik thrik thrik chhum sanan sanan chaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
dhinak dhinak rumjhum bundan barsaayee ghata
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
sagan kunj aali gunj sang aali kunj manohar
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
madmaati muskaati itlaati rasraati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati
manjul mrid saawak maral
sukapit kapot ke hari lajaati
ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sihaansini
ang vasan mrid hasan dasan daamini sinhaansini
sab nupur jhankaar chaar
chamak chamak
kantey
kantey
kantey
kanta dha
kanta dha
dha ma ga pa
ni dha ni pa ni dha
ni pa ma ga
ma sa ni dha ni pa
ma ga pa ma s ani sa
sa ga ma pa da ni
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa
sa ga ma pa da ni sa…aa
[Faster rhythmic syllables]
Deewaana hoon pyaar ka
Posted on: May 4, 2026
This article is written by Satyajit Rajurkar, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in other sites without the knowledge and consent of the web administrator of atulsongaday.me, then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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6499 | Post No. : | 20196 |
“Deewana Hoon Pyar Ka” sung by Kishore Kumar is from the film “Qaid” (1975). The song was written by Maya Govind and composed by Nitin Mangesh.
Nitin–Mangesh were a Hindi film music composer duo active mainly during the 1970s and early 1980s, remembered as part of a generation of talented but relatively lesser-known Bollywood composers who worked during an era dominated by giants such as Laxmikant–Pyarelal, R. D. Burman, and Kalyanji–Anandji.
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6496 | Post No. : | 20191 |
“Rustam e Baghdad”(1963) was produced by Bunny Talwar and Kirpal R Mirchandani and directed by B J Patel for Hanna Films, Bombay. The movie had Dara Singh, Chandrashekhar, Vijaya Chaudhary, Shakila Bano Bhopali, Polson, Bhagwan, Rajan Kapoor, Shashimala, Shri Bhagwan, H D Shukla, Devchand, Maya, Sumitra, Zebunnisa, Prince Kumali etc in it.
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Kailashnath Prabhu Avinaashee
Posted on: May 1, 2026
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6496 | Post No. : | 20189 |
‘Shiv Bhakt’ (1955) was produced under the banner of AVM Productions and was directed by H L N Simha who also wrote the story. The cast included Shahu Modak, Pandari Bai, Padmini, Anant Kumar, Mishra, Kumaridevi, Rushyendramani, Ragini, H Ramachandra Shastri, Deshraj etc. The film was a remake of the Kannada film, ‘Bedara Kannappa’ (1954) – [English translation: ‘Hunter Kannappa’] which was also directed by H L N Simha. Later, there were remakes of the film in Tamil and Telugu.
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6495 | Post No. : | 20187 |
‘Mere Armaan Mere Sapne’ (1963) was produced and directed by Arabind Sen under his banner, Lalit Kala Mandir. The cast included Pradip Kumar, Kumari Naaz, Ashim Kumar, Jayshree Gadkar, Pran, Agha, Sumitra Devi, Manmohan Krishna, Asit Sen, Badri Prasad, Johnny Whisky, Padma Devi, Paro Devi, Samar Chatterjee, Laxmi Chhaya, Madhumati, Surekha etc.
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assalaam alghulaam
Posted on: April 27, 2026
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6492 | Post No. : | 20183 |
Hullo Atuldom
27th April 2009 was the date when Zulfiqar Ali Shah Khan – better known as Feroz Khan- bid adieu to this mortal world. He was only 69 or 73 at that time (there is no clear year of birth available anywhere on the internet).
He was born in Bangalore (which was part of the Kingdom of Mysore at that time) in 1935 (according to some accounts) or 1939 (as mentioned at other places on the internet) to parents who were from Persia & Afghanistan. He was educated in schools of Bangalore but never went to college (by his own admission). But, looking at the way he conducted himself on-screen- the walk, a drawl in the dialogue delivery etc. would make the audiences feel that he was someone who was educated in some overseas university. He brought the wild west to Bollywood with his leather boots, hats and cigars, and he did it with swag.
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6491 | Post No. : | 20179 |
“Gunda”(1969) was produced by Sushil Malik and directed by Mohammad Hussain for Smart Films, Bombay. This “social” movie had Shaikh Mukhtar,Sujit Kumar, Jayanthi,N.A.Ansari,Sham Kumar,Bela Bose,Uma Dutt,Satish, Mumtaz Begum, Helen, Bhagwan,Shakila Bano Bhopali,Sham Kumar,Shetty,Mohan Jerry,Sharifa,Shefali,Fatima etc in it.
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