Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Lut gayi Laajo beech bajariyaa
Posted on: December 23, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have already posted a sweet sad song from the film ‘Chheen Le Azaadi’ (1947), “Champakali Hai Udaas”. Here is another gem of a light tete-a-tete between lovers. Words of this song are written by Pt. Indra, and the music is by Hansraj Behl.
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Noorjahaan sang 127 songs in 69 Hindi talking movies till 1947. The last Hindi movie where she acted and sang was “Mirza Sahiban”(1947).
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Dulhan Maarwaad ki
Posted on: December 21, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Anpadh” (1962) including the most well known songs from the movie, viz the two ghazals from it.
Here is another song, which is a lesser known song from this movie. This song is a stage dance song which is picturised as a cultural programme on stage which is watched by a houseful audience.
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Maano ya na maano
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“First Love” (1961) is a lesser known movie. This movie is a Natraj Production presentation. It was directed by Vedmohan. The movie had actors like Mehmood, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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Jhoom jhoom kar baadal aaye
Posted on: December 21, 2011
For music lovers of Hindi movie music, there is a vast repository of well known songs to chose from. And if one wants to go off the beaten track and savour songs that few people even know exist, then there is an equally vast repository of musical gems. In this blog, we keep discovering such unheard gems from times gone by, almost on a regular basis.
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“Jahaan Ara”(1964) is a movie that flopped big time at the box office. This movie was not meant for ordinary movie goers and the people appreciative of such movies did not add up to much those days.
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Dil dai dai o naa lai lai
Posted on: December 20, 2011
“Senapati” (1961) is a movie I know nothing about. This extremely obscure movie was a Mohla films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Prithviraj Kapoor, Nalini Jaiwant, Amarnath, Tiwari, Durga Khote, K. N. Singh, Veena etc.
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Husn jawaan ishq jawaan
Posted on: December 20, 2011
In case of most movies, only a few songs become popular and other songs become forgotten with time. I have found that several of these forgotten songs are superb songs to listen to, and with some luck, they should have become popular songs, instead of ending up into the dustbin of obscurity.
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Aji chale aao aji chale aao
Posted on: December 20, 2011
There are several well known songs that I believe have already been covered in the blog but I often turn out to be wrong in my belief.
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Bachpan ki haseen manzil se
Posted on: December 19, 2011
Between 1950s to 1970s, there was a series of British movies whose titles began with “Carry on..” . These movies were low budget comedy movies, whose comedy consisted of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendre, as wikipedia puts it. In India, I S Johar took a leaf out of this “Carry On” series movies, and he produced a few such movies whose titles began with “Johar in..”.
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