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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
An old adage – they say that the real geniuses leave early. Many an instance are scattered all over the history timeline. Gosh, she was still 4 months short of her 40th birthday when she gave up her resistance to the personal tragedies and tribulations, making her way out of the miserable labyrinths of control and manipulations that she was subjected to most of her life. Ah but, what a color her own life, rubbed on to her on screen persona, as she moved from one perfection to the next in the tragic milieu of tangled relationships and human miseries. A performer too young, too vivacious, to be baptized as the Tragedy Queen. And the vicious circle moved from real life to screen and back, so many times over, that her cup of life proved to be diminutive, unable to hold all the sorrows that the world put in it.
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Nazar phero na ham se
Posted on: September 9, 2011
“Deedaar” (1951) is a movie that was directed by Nitin Bose. This movie had a formidable star cast consisting of Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Nimmi etc.
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Chal chal chameli baag mein
Posted on: September 8, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Dada” (1978). Later I found out that another movie of the same name was released in 1966 too. Both these movies incidentally had the same music director, viz Usha Khanna.
Now I find that there was another movie of the same name, which was released in 1949.
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I have discussed one song from “Mirza Sahiban”(1947) in the past. considering that this is one of the four major tradional Punjabi tragic love stories, one would normally expect to have love songs (tragic or otherwise) in a movie like this. So I am pleasantly suprised to find that this movie has a light hearted song as well.
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“Kaneez” (1949) is a by now forgotten movie with names like Munawwar Sultana, Shyam, Kuldip Kaur, Khwaja Sabir, Sinha etc in it.
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I have mentioned that “Magroor” (1950) is one of the more lovable Hindi movies of all time in my opinion.
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