Archive for the ‘expression of love’ Category
Pyaar milega jab na kahin
Posted on: September 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1967 film, ‘Woh Koi Aur Hoga’, is a production under the banner of Amrit Kala Mandir, and is directed by A Shamsheer. The films is an action drama with a star cast that includes Feroze Khan, Mumtaz, Sohrab Modi, Dhumal, Asit Sen, Meenakshi and Sham Kumar. The primary singing voice is that of Mohammed Rafi, with interleaved expression of annoyance and exasperation by Mumtaz. The lyrics are by Asad Bhopali, and the music is composed by Usha Khanna.
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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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“Main Hoon Alladin” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie which was produced by Ramkrishna Films. It was directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ajit and Saeeda Khan in lead roles. Other actors in this movie were Madan Puri, Maruti, Jagirdar, Shyam Sunder, Mumtaz Begum, David Abraham etc.
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I had mentioned in an earlier discussion that Helen’s aspirations (if any) of playing mainstream rolers in Hindi movies (where mainstream roles means donning a sari /salwar kurta etc and singing songs that are the preserve of leading ladies) were realised on movies like “Cha Cha Cha” (1964) and “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979). She in fact won the Filmfare award for best supporting actress too, for her role in “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979).
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Aaj main dekhoon jidhar jidhar
Posted on: September 23, 2011
“Doli” (1969) is a movie which was produced by Bahaar films combines. Hargobind Duggal was the producer and Adurthi Subba Rao directed the movie. This movie had a star cast consisting of names like Rajesh khanna, Babita,Prem Chopra, Om prakash, Nazima,Nana Palsikar, Raj Mehra, sulochana Latkar, Sunder, Kanhaiyyalal, Pandhari bai,Randhir,Shivraj, Sulochana Chatterjee, Hari Shivdasani, Shammi, Praveen Paul, Polson, Nazir Kashmiri, Birbal, Johnny Whisky, Narbada Shankar, Radheshyam etc.
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Mujhe jabse muhabbat ho gayi
Posted on: September 22, 2011
Like most music lovers, I am only aware of the more popular songs of movies and I am often blissfully unaware of the lesser songs from these movies.
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Ye bheegi fizaayen
Posted on: September 21, 2011
“Kaanch Aur Heera” (1972) was a B grade movie produced by Sudarshan Chitra and directed by Charandas Shokh. The makers of this movie must have been great believers in winning lottery or stock market riches, seeing that they had staked the future of their movie on names like Pankaj and Shaheen. Yes, they were the lead actors in this movie. Other in the cast were Rajan Haksar, Kamal Kapoor, Manmohan etc.
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“Goonj” (1952) was a Kwatra Art Production movie. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Bhagwan, Suresh, Suraiya, Sapru, Majnu, Madan Puri, Randhir, Ravikant etc in it.
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Ambuwaa ke ped suhaane
Posted on: September 20, 2011
“Sabak” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by its owner, namely M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana,Om Prakash,Jagirdaar,jillo etc in it.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie that came as a critic juncture in the annals of Hindi movie music and it determined the course of action that Hindi movie music was to take. Songs of this movie as well as the other movies with music by Naushad were based on folk music. It was a major departure from earlier music which was based on classical rag based music. Music lovers loved this folk music based music. The classical music based songs too continued to be composed but it became clear that the key to win the public over was through folk music based songs.
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