Archive for the ‘Hemant Kumar songs’ Category
Ye mehfil sitaaron ki
Posted on: January 19, 2011
“Arab Ka Saudaagar” (1956) , by now a forgotten movie had Pradeep Kumar,Smriti Biswas,Shashikala,Sundar ,S D Narang etc in it, with S D Narang being the director of this movie as well.
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Baadal ki paalki pe hoke sawaar
Posted on: January 19, 2011
“Chakradhaari” (1954) was a B grade low budget movie as most movies with mythological/religious stories tended to be those days. Of course there was nothing B grade about the music of such movies considering that there was far too much of musical talent available those days to cater to movies of all budgets.
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“Champakali” (1957) is a movie which is known to music lovers for its iconic song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke). All these days, this song was all I knew about this movie.
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I have discussed a railgaadi (Train) song where hero and heroine are seated on a haystack kept on a freight train. The train is in motion and the duo are singing a song accompanied by the rhythmic beat generated by the train.
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“Naagin” (1954) had countless songs, and all of them extremely popular. I have discussed as many as seven songs from this movie already, but what are seven songs in a movie teeming with great songs in it ! So here is !
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In Hindi movies, we have several songs that allude to Lord Krishna and his baansuri (flute). I wonder why I did not have a category for such songs. Indeed there are so many songs of this category that I should have thought of it. Now I have finally opened a “Baansuri” category and hopefully this will cover most songs of this genre.
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“Harishchandra Taramati” (1963) was a mythological movie in which Prithviraj Kapoor and Jaimala had played the lead (and title) roles with Bablu playing their son.
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There are countless forgotten gems from forgotten movies that I keep discovering almost on a daily basis.
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O zindagi ke dene waale
Posted on: December 12, 2010
I have discussed several songs from “Naagin” (1954) in the past, six to be exact. But this movie had so many songs in it that a few songs are still at large and remain to be posted.
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Gagan jhanjhanaa rahaa
Posted on: December 9, 2010
It is a well known fact that people in general and movie actors in particular remember God only when they are in trouble. And once in trouble, they resort to emotional blackmail to make God help them. And God in Hindi movies being soft hearted, tends to give in rather easily.
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