Archive for the ‘“Get together” song’ Category
Shaayar to nahin hoon lekin
Posted on: April 25, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I do not know as to why I suddenly remembered Sanjeev Kumar (real name Haribhai Jariwala) today early in the morning when I was preparing for my morning walk. His anniversary dates were nowhere near and I have not seen any of his films and video clips for a long time. As it is, my ‘area of operations’ on YT are mainly confined to the watching/listening of video/audio clips pertaining to the period between 1940-1960, straying sometime up to late 60s and most of his his songs does not fit in to my preference. Probably, this was a reminder to me from Sanjeev Kumar donning a white suit and trouser in true suspense film style echoing “old man, have a peep at me too sometime”.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When I saw the list of songs remaining to complete the score of films in this blog, given by our own in house encyclopedia, Deshmukh Sir, I was actually thrilled that one song from ‘Asli Naqli” was remaining. The song in question is “Laakh chhupaao chhup na sakegaa raaz ho kitna gehraa” is something I am familiar with and very fond.
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Aaye ho to dekh lo duniya zaraa
Posted on: March 26, 2012
I am aware of a joke where a Pathan from Afghanistan saw the poster of “Chiraag Kahaan Roshni Kahaan” and went to the movie hall hoping to see a movie depicting the tale of two Khans namely Chiraag Khan and Roshni Khan :).
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Kya rangeen mehfil hai dildaaram
Posted on: March 25, 2012
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) was a Kay Production movie. It was directed by A R Kardar. Star cast of the movie included Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Shyama, Johnny Walker, Murad, Pran, Rehman, Rani, Sajjan, Sapru, Shah Agha etc.
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Munna taaron ka raaja
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) was a Deep and Sandeep Production movie. In other words, this movie was produced by Pradeep Kumar with his brother. Karunesh Thakur directed the movie and the starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Rehman, Jabeen Jalil, Leela Chitnis, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti, Shashikala, Jawahar Kaul etc.
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“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
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Sun le tu dil ki sadaa
Posted on: February 26, 2012
“Tere Ghar Ke Saamne” (1963) was a Navketan International presentation and it was directed by Vijay Anand. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Rashid Khan, Harin Chattopadhyaya, Om Prakash, Parveen Choudhary, Jankidas, Rajendranath etc in it.
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“Main Suhaagan Hoon” (1964) was a Nayyar films production. It was directed by Kundan Kumar. Star cast of the movie included names like Ajit, Mala Sinha, Nishi, Kewal Kumar etc.
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On the occasion of Kaifi Azmi’s birthday (19th january), we are discussing a few songs written by Kaifi Azmi.
Here is a song from “Arth” (1982). This song, which is picturised as a get together song, is sung by Jagjeet Singh. It is picturised on Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda etc. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kuldeep Singh Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh.
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“Naina” (1972) is an obscure movie despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was produced by Babubhai Shah and directed by Kanak Mishra. The star cast consisted of names like Shashi kapoor, Rajshree,Mousmi Chatterjee, Padma Khanna, Praveen Paul, David Abraham, Rehmaan, Akashdeep, Sanjana, Sunder, Shaukat Kaifi Azmi etc.
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