Archive for the ‘Mukesh-Lata duet’ Category
In 1965, United Producers and Filmfare conducted an All India Talent Contest. Ten thousand people took part in this contest. The winner of this contest ,called “All India United Producers Talent contest” was to be made the hero of two Hindi movies.
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There are songs which people may have heard for the last time several decades ago, or perhaps they may have never heard them before. Listening to such songs are like stumbling upon a long lost acquaintance, or like meeting someone whom you should have known much earlier.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before the advent of television and internet, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati were the main sources of listening to Hindi film songs. In respect of old Hindi film songs, it was observed that while Radio Ceylon specialised in broadcasting film songs of 40s and 50s, Vividh Bharati’s broadcast was more pronounced towards the songs of late 50s and 60s. Accordingly, during those days of radio, I had categorised songs into ‘Radio Ceylon’ songs and ‘Vividh Bharati’ songs depending upon where these songs were heard the most. 😀
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Mujhe kehte hain Kalloo qawwaal
Posted on: January 17, 2012
“Dulha Dulhan”(1964) is a movie which was produced by Nagina Films. This movie was produced and directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Raj Kapoor, Sadhana, Raj Mehra, K.N.Singh, Agha, Madhumati, Kumud Tripathi, Madhumati, Bhola, Yusuf, AnwariBai, Vishwa Mehra, Mridula Rani etc.
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“Juaari” (1968) was a Lotus Productions movie. It was directed by Suraj Prakash. The starcast consisted of Shashi Kapoor, Nanda,Rehman,Kumari Naaz,Tanuja,David Abraham,Madanpuri,Agha,Madhavi,Achala Sachdev etc.
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Jo dil hi todnaa thhaa
Posted on: October 19, 2011
“Sartaj” (1950) was an Omar Khayyam Productions movie. this movie was directed by S Khalil. Cast of the movie had names like Motilal, Munawwar Sultana, Cuckoo, Manorama, Ansari, Mirza Musharaf, Shyama, Rattan Bai etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Again, a song to fall in love on the first hear itself. I heard this song only today morning, and it forced me to write this post. Another obscure film, another unheard gem of a musical creation.
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“Teesra Kaun” (1965) is a movie that had Feroz Khan and Kalpana in it. This movie was apparently a B grade spy thriller.
This was one of the earlier movies of the an up and coming music director called R D Burman.
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Armaan bharaa dil toot gayaa
Posted on: July 30, 2011
Here is a forgotten gem from a forgotten movie that I have just discovered. This song is from “Wafa” (1950). This movie had Nimmi and Karan Dewan in lead roles.
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