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“Sagina” (1974) was produced by Tapan Sinha and directed by J K Kapur for Rupa-Sree International productions. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Aprna Sen, Om Prakash, Anil Chatterji, Swaroop Dutt, Chinmoy Roy,Rajni Gupta,Kalyan Chatterji,Banu Bannerji, Qadar Khan, T.A.Liddle, Modi Cohen,Abe Cohen,Alok Choudhary,Panna Kapur, Rasoraj Chakravorthy,Nani Ganguly, Satu Majumdar,Ajit Bengali,Chandu, Pardesi, Shyam Kumar, Shantimoy Chatterji, Mustafa, Sayed, Naqi, Azia, Putan, K N Singh etc in it.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Gulzar’s third film, as a director, Parichay (1972) has often been accused of being a copy of The Sound of Music (1963). I think that this is too much of an exaggeration, since the only common thing between the stories of the two films being a teacher, who wins over his unruly wards. That is a common theme enough in films and novels. The whole context and the treatment of the story is completely different. All said and done one can’t deny that the song saa re ke saa re has a similarity to doe a deer. The similarity is not in the tune but in the sense that both songs explain the seven notes of music.
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Hello hello kyaa haal hai
Posted on: August 5, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Last night, when the 700th song of Kishore Da was posted, immediately there was a comment by Mahesh Bhai Mammadapur, requesting to know whether Kishore Da has any songs sung under the music direction of Naushad. Decidedly, this pairing is absolutely rare, because their peak periods were far apart. When Naushad was on the top in 50s and 60s, Kishore Da was considered less than a mainstream singer. And when Kishore Da ruled the world of Hindi film music in the 70s and 80s, Naushad Sb was a spent force, with really very few films to his credit during this period.
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Main jo chala pi kar
Posted on: July 8, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Mukti (1977), Shashi Kapoor and Vidya Sinha play a happily married couple, till he is framed for murder and thus gets capital punishment. Thinking that he is dead she relocates to Bombay, where she meets the local goon, who helps the lonely “widow” and her daughter settle down. This other man is played by Sanjeev Kumar. In this song he seems to be drinking so that he can feel brave enough to admit his love to his adored one.
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Satrah baras ki chhokariyaa pe
Posted on: May 29, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the last song from the film Ajanabee. This is one of the lesser known songs from this movie. From its sound it hardly seems to be from Pancham except at times during the interludes. A common situation in Indian films for songs is where the lovers reach a village or a tribal camp on one of their rendezvous. Once there, they are persuaded by the locals to participate in their dance and song item. Sometimes the pair starts imagining themselves in the situation of the leading pair singing and dancing.
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Chhodo ye nigaahon ka ishaara
Posted on: May 24, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Inkaar’ from 1977 is one of my more favorite cops-and-robbers films. Almost the entire picture is a study in understatement. A film that flows pretty close to the levels of realism, and all the characters seem very natural and very normal in the surroundings they are placed in. Most of the action and most of the histrionics is played very normally. There is not much in the film that can be singled out as something overplayed. A difficult feat to pull off, given that it is a crime and detection story.
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Pallo latkey re mhaaro pallo latkey
Posted on: April 4, 2013
“Naukar” (1979) was produced by Ismail Memon and Govind Ahuja and directed by Ismail Memon. The movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Madhu Malini, Lalita Pawar, Yogita Bali etc in it. This movie was a light hearted comedy movie that likes of which were quite popular in 1970s.
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Keh doon tumhen kyaa chup rahoon
Posted on: March 18, 2013
“Deewaar” (1975) must be regarded as one of the most influential movies of its time. Unlike most Hindi movies, the music of this movie only had a marginal role to play in the success of the movie. In fact no song of this movie figured in the Binaca geetmala finals.
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Kaho kahaan chalen
Posted on: March 14, 2013
“Bulandi” (1980) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. So naturally I do not have much information about the movie. 🙂 So I had to look for details of this movie online.
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This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Chandi Sona (1977), as the name points out at, is a film about treasure hunt on an island. Most probably a desi version of a Hollywood film. Sanjay Khan in his independent ventures favoured R D Burman. Even in this film it is Pancham, who gives the music.
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