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“Waqt” (1965) was a path breaking movie in more ways than one. For one, it was a multistarrer movie, one decade before this term came into circulation. Secondly, it was the movie that set the rules for lost and found movies which became the norm one decade later. In brief, “Waqt” (1965) inspired movie makers like G P Sippy (Sholay, Shaan) as well as Manmohan Desai (Amar Akbar Anthony).
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I have so far discussed 32 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in this blog. Considering that he composed about 100 songs, I have discussed one third of all the songs composed by him in Hindi movies.
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Tumhe ham yaad karte hain
Posted on: October 21, 2010
“Rukhsaana” (1955) is movie with Sajjad Hussain’s music and a few songs of this movie are available on internet. This movie had Kishore Kumar,Meena Kumari, Kumkum, Randhir, Sundar etc in it.
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Ham to muhabbat karegaa
Posted on: October 20, 2010
“Dilli Ka Thug” (1958) was the first movie where Kishore Kumar worked with Ravi and their maiden collaboration gave us some memorable songs that are remembered even to this day.
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Main keh doon tum ko chor
Posted on: October 18, 2010
Playful romantic songs, especially those that are picturised on a pair of actors who were actually romantically involved always makes for good listen/watch. Dev Anand and Suraiyya were one of the first such on screen couple.
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Mere mehboob mein kyaa nahin
Posted on: October 16, 2010
Two female singers dancing in tandem was a staple diet of B grade historical/ mythological movies of 1960s. But here we find the same thing happening in a Muslim social movie. The movie is “Mere Mehboob” (1963) and here Sadhana and Ameeta are found dancing and singing joyously. They sing in the voices of Lata and Asha Bhonsle respectively.
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Saanjh ki belaa jiyaa akelaa
Posted on: October 16, 2010
“Chandralekha”(1948) was a Hindi remake of Gemini’s movie of the same name in South Indian languages (Tamil and Telugu) and all these versions turned out to be hugely popular and this encouraged Gemini and other South Indian production houses to foray into production of Hindi movies in future.
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Saajnaa more saajnaa
Posted on: October 16, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain these days. I have so far discussed three songs from his debut movie viz “Dost”(1944).
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Alam par alam sitam par sitam
Posted on: October 12, 2010
Sajjad Hussain made his debut an an independent music director with “Dost”(1944). With the passage of so much time, very little is known about this movie today. What is known is that this movie had actors like Noorjahan, Vatsala Kumthekar, Motilal, Husnbano, Maya Banerjee, Kanhaiyalal etc in it.
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