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Ek taraf jal rahaa deepak
Posted on: July 9, 2011
“Preet Ka Geet” (1950) is a movie that I became aware of only a few hours ago, when I discovered this song from this movie. Naturally, I became aware of the song too only just then. And what a lovely song it is !
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Though most Hindi movies have their titles in Hindi/Urdu, there are cases when their titles are in pure English. Most of these movies tended to be B grade movies.
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Laakh sahi hain pee ki batiyaan
Posted on: July 9, 2011
In olden days, men used to play the roles of women because it was not very easy to get women from decent background to appear in movies (and also dramas). Hopefully, they were able to get women to sing for themselves, I hope.
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“Mausam” (1975) is a movie that is known as much for the acting of Sanjeev Kumar and Sharmila Tagore as for its music. Unfortunately Madan Mohan, the music director of the movie was not alive to see the success of this movie. For much of his life, movies embellished by his wonderful songs would bite the dust as the box office, and ironically, the movies released after his death, viz “Mausam” (1975) and “Laila Majnu” (1976) turned out to be hit movies riding on the music of these movies.
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Baithhi hoon main nain bichhaaye
Posted on: July 8, 2011
When one watches Hindi movies of the past, including their songs, and compare them with the present time, one notices that people back then had too much of time and patience. Means of instant communications were not there. People (namely the lady or parents) who will have their beloved husband/son gone to a distant place for work,will not hear from him for years, and they will patiently wait. One can not imagine people to have this kind of time and patience in today’s world.
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Main panchhi aazaad
Posted on: July 8, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This wonderful song is from the film Tadbeer (1945). The film was produced and directed by Jayant Desai, and featured KL Saigal, Suraiyyaa, Mubarak, Rehana, Jillo, Salvi, Reva Shankar, Shalini, and Shashi Kapoor as a child actor. Born in 1938, Shashi would be just seven years when this film was released. It is possible that this could be his debut movie or definitely one of the very first few movies that he acted in. (I have not been able to track specific information on this).
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Here is an absolute gem of a song that has been lying hidden all these decades.
This song is from “Nayi Kahaani” (1943). I am not only surprised that music lovers have forgotten this song, I am even more surprised at the fact that the print of this movie is still available and that too in a reasonably pristine condition, going by the print quality of this picturisation. So kudos to the people who have preserved the print of this movie in such a good condition.
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We have been discussing one K L Saigal song a day in this blog for the last 40 odd days and now we have notched up a healthy number of K L Saigal songs ( 71) in this blog. K L Saigal sang around 104 Hindi movie songs and another 30 odd non movie songs in this language. We will cover all the K L Saigal songs that are available.
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Chanda ki kirnon se lipti hawaayen
Posted on: July 6, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusisat of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The enticement of the tinsel world of films has fostered many real life stories of people from all walks of life giving up their professions and jobs, with an aspiration to make it a success in the film world. The story of the famous composer Chitragupt (full name Chitragupt Stivastava) is also of this kind. Born in 1917 in Karmaini (Chhapra District), Bihar, Chitragupt did a double MA in Economics and Journalism, and was working as a lecturer in Patna. In the early 40s, he gave it all up and came to Bombay with a dream to make it big, not as an actor, but as a singer and music director. He worked as an assistant with SN Tripathi, who became his mentor. In 1946, Chitragupt got his first independent assignment as a composer for the movie Toofan Queen. Not a success on the box office, the film did nothing much to help progress Chitragupt’s career. He would do another 20 odd films between 1946 and 1952, before coming into his own in the early 1950s. The 1952 film Sindbad the Sailor, though not a huge success in itself, its music was very successful. In 1955, SD Burman recommended him to the AVM studios (in Madras), which started an association that lasted for many years. During this time, he composed music for many hit films from AVM viz., Mein Bhi Ladki Hoon, Barkha, Mein Chup Rahoongi, Bhaabhi etc.
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Chham chhamaachham paayal baaje
Posted on: July 6, 2011
“Rail Ka Dibba” (1953) is one of the earliest movie of Shammi Kapoor. In this movie he is paired opposite Madhubala. By that time, Madhubala had already carved a niche for herself whereas Shammi Kapoor had yet to discover his niche.
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