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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Continuing the search for the qawwaali form of music in Hindi films, I come across two wonderful qawwaalis from the film Bahu Begum (1967). I present the first one in this write up.
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Insaaf waalaa jo Bhagwaan hotaa
Posted on: October 1, 2011
I have discussed a couple of songs from “Suhaag Sindoor”(1961) in the past. Here is another song from this movie. The song is sung by Rafi and Manna Dey and it is picturised on Johny Walker (lip syncing in the voice of Rafi) and Balraj Sahni (lip syncing in the voice of Manna Dey).
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Most music lovers like to listen to light music and they run away a mile if they have to listen to classical music or classical music based songs. I was certainly one of them during my younger days.
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Today is India’s independence day. On this occasion, I greet all Indians, wherever they are, a very happy independence day.
On this occasion, here is a very special patriotic song. This song was written by a patriot who actually participated in the freedom struggle and was hanged by Britishers for his role in the Kakori conspiracy.
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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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Most Hindi movie songs last for three to four minutes, but the lonngest songs often last two and even three times the durations of the normal length songs. These long songs are mostly qawwaalis. The qawwalis may last considerably, but they hold the listeners spell bound with their lyrics.
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Here is a “roadside tamasha” song from “Biraadari” (1966). In this song Shashi Kapoor and Memmood, donning striped lungis 😀 give a vigorous and boisterous dance performance. Such dances are right up the alley of Mehmood, but even Shashi Kapoor gamely hangs on and manages to keep pace with Mehmood.
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Taaqat watan ki hamse hai
Posted on: August 15, 2010
Today is 15th August 2010. It was on this day that India got her independence 63 years ago. On this day, all public places in India have national flags hoisted there by the heads of the organisations.
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munh se mat lagaa cheez hai buri
Posted on: December 1, 2009
I have mentioned it earlier that some of the finest songs created by O P Nayyar were in movies produced by Johny Walker.
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I have heard of “Usne kahaa tha” (1960), and I have heard of its song “aha rimjhim ke ye pyaare pyaare geet liye” too, but that is all I knew about this movie.
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