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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
What a gem of a song ! Ghulam Mohammed at his melodious best. I am sure you will find yourself humming this song over and over after you have heard it once. That is what is happening in my mind as I am putting down the lyrics and preparing this write up, the leading lines just keep playing again and again in my mind – ‘chhodo chhodo ji piyaa mera todo na jiyaa’. What a lovely composition this one is.
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Neend nigaahon ki kho jaati hai
Posted on: July 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Lootera (1965) is a story of pirates and princesses. It is a B grade action drama, with a star cast that includes Dara Singh, Prithviraj Kapoor, Nishi, Helen, Hiralal, Jeevan, Maruti, Bela Bose and others. The music of this movie is simply superb. All songs of this movie are very hummable and well known. And all songs, except one, are rendered by Lata Mangeshkar.
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“Rajdhani”(1956) is an obscure movie that had Nimmi and Sunil Dutt in lead roles.
The movie and its songs may be obscure, but the songs are lovely to listen to.
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14th july is Madan Mohan’s death anniversary. When I searched for a few Madan Mohan songs to be discussed on this occassion, I came across some unbelievable gems and I was left wondering how I have missed out on these gems all these days. I regard myself as some sort of a research scholar on Madan Mohan can be caught unawares like this, then just imagine what undiscovered Madan Mohan gems still lie ahead of us, waiting to be discovered. We have covered about 27 % of all Madan Mohan songs, and the remaining songs contain many wonderful songs as I discovered. In fact, I decided to hold some Madan Mohan songs back for some other occasions too, that is how fantastic I found those songs to be.
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Madan Mohan (DOB 25 june 1924-DOD 14 july 1975) left for the heavenly abode on 14th july 36 years ago. 36 years ago, did I say ? Was is that long ago ? How time flies !
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Ek baat poochhti hoon
Posted on: July 13, 2011
I think I should have a category of songs called “songs that I thought were already discussed by I was wrong”. 🙂 There are many songs like this which I think have already been posted. so when a reader sends me a farmaish for that song or sends the lyrics of that song, I am surprised.
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Ye bhi hai koi reet anokhi
Posted on: July 13, 2011
Here is a song that has to be regarded as a wonderful find. This song is a highly obscure song from a highly obscure movie. The artists who are involved in this song are less known, and even unknown to most music lovers. But what a gem they have created !
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“Aan Baan” (1972) is one of the last movies of Rajendra Kumar as a hero. In this movie, he was paired with Rakhi, a heroine half his age. In any case, his days as Jubilee Kumar were behind him as by that time Rajesh Khanna had taken over as the new box office God by that time.
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Ye to kaho kaun ho tum
Posted on: July 12, 2011
12 july is the death anniversary of Rajendra Kumar (DOB-20 july 1929-DOD 12 july 1999). Apart from moviegoers of his time, he was a delight to the movie makers too, because his movies tended to be box office hits. In fact, he was nicknamed Jubilee Kumar for this Midas touch.
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Roop tumhaaraa aankhon se pi loon
Posted on: July 12, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ajit Merchant, a leading music director for Gujarati films and for the theatre world in Bombay, passed away about 4 months ago (18th March, 2011). He was 80 plus. Although better known for his work in the Gujarati cinema, he did compose music for Hindi movies, albeit a small number. By some accounts, his offerings in the Hindi film world number less than 10. An accomplished music director, Ajit Merchant gave a first important break to a struggling Jagjit Singh in the late 60s. Raj Kapoor was also a fan of Ajit Merchant. It is said that after hearing the song “mari ankh no afini tara roop no bandhani . . .” (from the Gujarati film “Divadndi” he requested Shankar Jaikishan also to listen to it. The result of this reference was the song “Mera joota hai japaani” from film Shri 420, based on the tune of the Gujarati song.
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