Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Chaahe koi mujhe bhoot kahe
Posted on: March 20, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During the early phase of Talkie films, all other regional Film producers, particularly the Southern ones looked up to Hindi films to provide them with ‘ Inspiration ‘.
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Khel re khilaune
Posted on: March 20, 2013
“Dashavatar”(1951) was a J K Films Production. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The movie had Nirupa Roy, Trilok Kapoor, Niranjan Sharma, Tabassum etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MUGHAL-E-AZAM-1960 was a milestone movie in the annals of Hindi films. Almost all the songs of this movie became famous and popular too. Many stories floated around about the happenings during the making of the film. Long articles appeared in papers and even a few books were published on this Epic film. Even today-after 53 years- the songs of Mughal e Azam are heard with interest by young and old alike.
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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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Ek jaanib shamm e mehfil
Posted on: March 17, 2013
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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.
This song from Abhilasha (1968) is not so well known like the other two featured songs on the blog here. It is a Rafi-Manna Dey duet. Roshan used this combination of voices brilliantly in his qawaalis. This song, I think is the first time that Pancham uses this pair of voices.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is a fantastic duet by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, from the film “Yeh raat phir na aayegi”(1966). Music Director is O P Nayyar, and this song is written by S H Bihari. Five songs are already posted, but a few famous songs are still on the way.
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Aaja raat beeti jaaye
Posted on: March 17, 2013
“Begunaah” (1957) was a movie whose story was plagiarised from an American movie namely “Knock on Wood” (1954). Plagiarisation from foreign movies have been going on from olden days and filmakers indulge in it with impunity even today. It would seem that “Begunaah” (1957) was the only movie which has even been penalised for this act. When Paramount Pictures, the makers of “Knock on Wood” (1954) came to know about the fact that “Begunaah” (1957) was copied from their movie, they look legal action in a Bombay court. Much to the astonishment of Indian movie fraternity and legal circles, the Indian court ordered the destruction of all copies of “Begunaah” (1957). The movie, which was already released, had to be withdrawn from movie halls and the prints were destroyed. all this happened quite swiftly. The court gave its decision within six weeks of filint the case and the prints were destroyed in another three months time.
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Zihaal e miskin makun tagaaful
Posted on: March 16, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
For the past few days, I have been going through the poems of Amir Khusrau. Fortunately, most of his poems are available on the internet with English translation. His love poems, riddles, dohas (couplets in Hindwi), qawwalis etc are very absorbing. I feel, it will not be an exaggeration to say that the trigger for the first literary renaissance especially in northern India was witnessed during the time of Amir Khusrau. He was one among the first in elite class to propagate the use of an Indian vernacular language in his poems which he called Hindawi ( mix of Hindi and its subsidiary dialects). I am not sure but the development of Urdu language in later years may have come as a continuum from Hindwi language.
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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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