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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Found another lost gem today. What a racy and enthusiastic rendering by Rafi Saab !
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Sun sun sun sun jaalimaa
Posted on: August 11, 2011
“Aar Paar” (1954) was clearly a milestone in the annals of Hindi movies. The songs of this movie were quite different from the kinds of songs that the music lovers were used to. And all the songs of the movie became popular and remain popular to this day. In fact there are so many popular songs in this movie that it is easy to lose count of them.
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“Kangan” (1939) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Leela Chitnis,Mubarak, Vasant Desai (who later became a well known music director) etc.
This movie apparently had two music directors who composed a few songs each. They were Ramchandra Pal and Saraswati Devi. In the past, I have discussed one song from this movie which was composed by Ramchandra Pal.
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Main man ki baat bataaoon
Posted on: August 11, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Since the time machines started getting invented, and later became an integral part of how the society (or a part of the society) started to use them on a large scale, a certain divide between the rural and urban milieu has also emerged. The debate on this un-ending. The rural system is the caretaker of farms and dairy, and plays the significant role of the provider of food to the entire society. The industrialized and urban system on the other hand, has become the provider of the mechanized solutions and consumer products for the society. Is there a way to determine whether one is more important than the other? Advocates of both sides have argued now for many years, trying to establish the preponderance of one over the other. (IMHO, the farm and agricultural sector is more important, because it is possible to do without many things, rather most things in life, if it comes to that. But one cannot do without food. But that is just my opinion 🙂 ).
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Oodi oodi chhaayi ghataa
Posted on: August 10, 2011
Though I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Amar” (1954) already, I was not aware of this song till its lyrics were sent to me by Atif M.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hansraj Behl had a career in Hindi films that lasted from 1946 to 1979, and he was one of the more successful and popular music directors in the post independence years. Creator of many iconic songs in the 50s and 60s, Hansraj Bahl’s music has a semi classical touch, with roots in his earlier training in classical music. He has been a very active music director for Punjabi movies also, and there is a large number of very popular Punjabi films songs that are composed by him.
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Though 1950 was “only” six decades ago, it looks like that was an entirely different world altogether from what it is today. For one, things were much simpler and un complicated and moreover, people seemed to have all the time in the world at their disposal. Imagine riding on a slow moving bullock cart and taking entire day to cover a distance of may be 15 miles, that one can now cover in a few minutes. Yes, one used to measure distances in miles those days.
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Rut hai suhaani mast hawaayen
Posted on: August 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Street Singer (1938) is a landmark film, that was a big success in its own time. The film is a trendsetter, and a musical bonanza beyond par. Produced by BN Sircar for New Theatres, Calcutta and directed by Phani Mazumdar, it had the two foremost singing stars of that era, paired for lead roles. The star cast includes KL Saigal, Kaanan Devi, Jagdish Sethi, Bikram Kapoor, AH Shorey, Boken Chatto, Chamanlal, Abdul Rehman, Braja Paul, Ram Kumari, Nirmal Bannerjee, Rani, Satya Mukherjee. Interestingly, the music maestro Khemchand Prakash, also played a role in this movie, as a stage hero working in the theatre.
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Kabhi raat din ham door thhey
Posted on: August 9, 2011
These days I have begun to look at Rafi-Lata duets with renewed interest. My interest has been aroused after I learnt some interesting statistics about the number of duets the two have sung together. It is estimated that the duo have sung about 410 odd duets. It excludes those songs in which some other voices were also present. And it also excludes multiple version songs (viz. same song sung separately by the two).
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