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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A romantic song in the garden, with the hero and heroine moving between the flowers and around the trees, has been almost a fixture in the formula of social drama movies, almost from the word go. A difference that one can point out that in 30s and 40s, for such songs, the lead pair would be more sober with their movements, and probably be singing with very little movements. This changed in the 50s and 60s, when dancing, running and chasing each other became important elements of picturization of such songs.
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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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Nanha sa dil deti hoon
Posted on: March 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year is 1957. The time in the Hindi film industry when the big name banners prominently ruled, and the success and recognition of film music was the domain of the high profile music directors. An era with a lot of stories of how Filmfare awards were influenced, and how the privileged songs were made to climb to the top of Binaca Geetmala list. In such a time and such an era, an ‘unprivileged’ song rapidly climbed the charts of popularity, completely defying the set commercial conventions, and confounding the hold of hierarchical tradition of established big names in the industry, it became the no. 1 song of 1957 at the top of Binaca Geetmala charts. The film – an unimpressive and an unremarkable socio-religious drama by the name of ‘Janam Janam Ke Phere’. The song – an unmatchable and a very endearing duet by Rafi Sb and Lata Mangeshkar – “Zaraa Saamne To Aa O Chhaliye”, an unlikely song of a human being’s search for the Almighty. The deep and impressive words of Bharat Vyas tuned to a lovely melody by a master craftsman of classical and folk genre – Shrinath Tripathi, better known as SN Tripathi.
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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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Dil ki betaabiyaan
Posted on: March 6, 2013
“Raaka” (1965) was a Tej Pictures production. It was produced by D N rathi and directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Dara Singh, Mumtaz, K N Singh, Shyam Kumar, Shakila Bano Bhopali, Parveen Paul, Jagdish Raj, Kamal Mehra, Aroon, Meenaxi, Tuntun, Laxmi Chhaaya, Noor Jahan, Roopesh Kumar, Fazal, Khurshid, Bilkish, Bihari, Anand, Saudagar Singh, Vasant Singh, K C Panda, Salim, Black Shadow, Ganga, Paul Singh etc in it.
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Ye kiya toone kaisa jaadoo
Posted on: March 5, 2013
“Zimbo” (1958) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Azad, Azad, Krishna Kumari, Adeeb, Achla Sachdev, Sheikh, Dalpat, Pedro, B M Vyas, Sardar Mansoor, Habib etc in it.
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Meri jaan tu khafa hai to kya huaa
Posted on: March 4, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Teesra Kaun has a plot, which sounds to be very Hitchcockian. It is of a man on the run after being falsely accused of robbery cum murder. One would think, such a story wouldn’t give much of an opportunity for songs. But this being a Hindi film, there are in fact many beautiful songs in it. The music director being R D Burman. This song particularly doesn’t sound R D Burmanesque. I would have thought it to be from Shankar-Jaikishan.
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Ae chaand ki zebaayi
Posted on: March 2, 2013
“Chhoti Si mulaaqaat” (1967) was a production of “Our Movies”, Calcutta. It was produced by Uttam Kumar and directed by Alo Sarkar. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Tarun Bose, Shashikala, Rajendra Nath, Pratima Devi, Veena, Badri Prasad, Sulochana Chatterjee, B B Bhalla, Radheshyam, S Hussan, Vishi Kapoor, Ratan Gaurang, Praveen Paul, Sundeep, Pinky etc in it.
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Nayaa nayaa chaand hai jee
Posted on: March 1, 2013
“Khuda Ka Banda” (1957) was a Chitra Bharati presentation. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Krishna Kumari, Tiwari, Krishna Kumari, Ratnamala, Iswarilal, Maruti, Roopmala, Moni Chatterji, Ram Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, Kanhaiyalal, Amirbai Karnataki, Maya Das, Jagdish Kamal, Azim, Parshuram, Pandit Iqbal etc in it.
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