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“Navrang” (1959) is a song that is well known for its songs. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. I was not aware of this till a few hours ago.
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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 wonderful duet from an almost unknown movie, Taxi Stand (1958). Another long lost friend that I had been searching for a very long time.
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Ham tum ye khoyee khoyee raahein
Posted on: April 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
The 1962 movie Rangoli has a bevy of most wonderful songs, some of which are already discussed in this blog. Here is a very soft and romantic duet from the same movie, beautifully sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. Lyrics are by Shailendra, and the composition is by Shanker Jaikishan.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
An absolutely wonderful song from an almost unknown movie Black Prince (1960). Music is by Dulaal Sen and lyrics by Upendra.
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Preetam se preet nibhaaungi
Posted on: April 7, 2011
“Street Singer” (1937) is one of the earliest Hindi movie after movies started talking in 1931. This movie had K L Saigal, Kanan Devi, Jagdish Sethi, Bikram Kapoor, Nirman, Satya Mukherji etc. This movie was produced by New Theatre of Calcutta and it was directed by Phani Majumdar.
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Tum to dil ke taar chhedkar
Posted on: April 6, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Roop Ki Raani Choron Ka Raaja” is a 1961 movie starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman in lead roles, besides Hiralal, Jagdish Raj, Sunder, Manorama, Randhir etc. Lyrics are by Shailendra and music by SJ. This movie has a few very memorable songs.
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When Hindi movie music directors wanted to create songs of a particular mood, they would explain the situation to the lyricist and he would write a song for the occassion. Then music director would compose the music and get the song recorded.
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Thaanedaar, viz inchange of the police station (Thaanaa) is a very important person as far as public are concerned. The original term for Thaanedaar, that old generation grew up with, is “Daarogaa”. “Darogaa” was much feared ( and therefore respected) by aam jantaa. Just as members of more educated sections of society aspired to become ICS (and later IAS) officers, members of lower rung of society aspired to become Policeman and from there to Hawaldaar and then rise up to the exalted post of “daarogaa”. Other posts that carried similar awe and shock among public was “Kotwaal”. There is in fact a saying in Hindi “Sainyya bhaye kotwaal to ab dar kaahe kaa” (My beloved has become kotwaal, so now I have noting to fear).
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
Mela (1971) is a movie I remember from my early days. I believe that , inspite of the Rajesh Khanna wave threatening to drown every non-Rajesh movie in those days, this movie did manage to do well at the box-office. Its songs also became pretty popular too, especially the Rafi-Lata duet, “Rut hai milan ki”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Prem Dhawan is better known as a lyricist who has had a very long stint of more than 5 decades in the Hindi film industry.
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