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Nainon se naina laage
Posted on: January 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Thanks to Arun ji for prodding the memory cells. Here is another wonderful melody from the film ‘Light House’ (1958). This time around, it is a song of exuberance, executed in a very fast tempo. It is the same team that has given two melancholic gems, “Tang Aa Chuke Hain Kashmakash-e-Zindagi Se Hum” and “Kis Jagah Jaayen Kis Ko Dikhlaayen” – lyrics from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi, music under the stewardship of N Dutta, and the wonderful rendition by Asha Bhosle.
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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 gem of a soft romantic duet. ‘Mere Armaan Mere Sapne’ is a somewhat better remembered film from early sixties (1963). Produced under the banner of Lalit Kala Mandir, Bombay, this film is directed by Arvind Soni. The lyrics for this film are penned by Rajendra Krishan, and the wonderful compositions are by N Dutta. The film has a good star cast that includes Pradeep Kumar, Jaishree Gadkar, Aseem Kumar, Kumari Naaz, Sumitra Devi, Pran, Asit Sen, Agha, Manmohan Krishan, Badri Prasad, Johnny Whisky, Paul Mahendra, Padma Devi, Paro Devi, Samar Chatterjee etc.
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Ye hariyaali aur ye raastaa
Posted on: January 16, 2012
What is the first song that comes to one’s mind when one talks of the movie “Hariyaali Aur Raasta” (1962) ? Its title song, did you say ? What about the song Bol meri taqdeer me kya hai or Ibtidaa-e-ishq mein ham or Kho gaya hai mera pyaar or Laakhon taare asmaan mein or Teri yaad dil se bhulaane chala hoon ?
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Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 16, 2012
“Shahnaaz” (1948) is an obscure movie and little is known about this movie. In fact, there is uncertainty even about the title. I have seen the title being spelled as “Shahnawaaz” too in some site.
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Ae sanam aaj ye qasam khaayen
Posted on: January 15, 2012
It is one occasion for this blog that I look forward to quite eagerly, the way a motorist on a highway looks forward to the next milestone. For this blog, every 100th song serves as a milestone, and the milestone that we touch with this song is the mark of 5300 posts !
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“Bedaag” (1965) was produced by Anoop Sharma and directed by R Bhattacharya. The star cast of the movie included names like Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Lalita Pawar, Shashikala, Shobha Khote, Raj Mehra, Mumtaz, Kammo, Sonia Lee, Mehmood, Walter Lavarre, Gyani etc.
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“Patang” (1960) is a movie which was produced by Asiatic Productions and directed by Hargobind Duggal and Suraj Prakash. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Om Prakash, Achala Sachdev, Ulhaas, Manorama, Raj Mehra, Keshav Rana, Randhir, Leela Mishra, Chaman puri, Mohan Choti, Baby Farida etc in it.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob himself and the star cast of the movie included names like Prem Adeeb, Surendra, Naseem Bano, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad,etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The past decades are a treasure house of musical gems – the more one digs and searches, one finds more new and forgotten melodies that are simply superb musical creations. I know, one of these days, we may come to a point where we have searched and located all the physically existing songs from Hindi films. But I also know, that day is still far off, and we will continue to come up with these discoveries for some more good length of time.
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A grade music in B grade movies- this has by now become a common refrain while discussing many of the songs in this blog. B grade movies had their own big name musi directors, and one of the biggest such names was undoubtedly Chitragupta.
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