Archive for the ‘Inspirational song’ Category
Jeevan mein tu darna nahin
Posted on: September 25, 2012
Today (25 september) is the birthday anniversary of Feroz Khan (25 september 1939- 27 April 2009). Once he got established in Hindi movie industry, he turned producer and director and he would make movies inspired from Western movies, e.g. those featuring Clint Eastwood.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my school days, I had read about many heroic events of Indian history like Maharana Pratap viz. Emperor Akbar, Shivaji vs Aurangzeb, Rani Laxmibai vs. British East India Company etc. All the opponents were villains to me and I hated them for their wrong doings.
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Jeewan se na haar o jeenewaale
Posted on: August 4, 2012
Kishore Kumar, popularly regarded as a happy go lucky individual was deep down a sensitive soul. After making a couple of light hearted movies, Kishore Kumar began to make some serious movies on sensitive issues. But unfortunately the Hindi movie audience were not ready for such movies. In fact even today there is only a very small audience for serious and sensitive off beat movies.
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Apne liye jiye to kya jiye
Posted on: July 17, 2012
“Baadal” (1966) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Sheikh Mukthar, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Hira Lal, Shammi Aunty, Ratnamala, Niroo, Fazal Khan, Prem, Bob, Ali Razak etc in it.
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Badi rangeeli zindagi hai
Posted on: June 20, 2012
“Shrimati 420″(1956) was produced and directed by G P Sippy. This movie, which is by and large forgotten by now had Johny Walker and Meena Shorey in lead roles.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Remembering Hemant Da on his birth anniversary today.
This is a very uplifting song, and a very dear memory that I carry from my radio listening days. The manner of rendition contains a conviction in the voice that simply establishes this sentiment to be true – “be a comfort to others, sacrifice your own happiness. . . in the end your own happiness will itself come to you.”
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Har zabaan ruki ruki
Posted on: June 10, 2012
“Baaz” (1953) was a H G Films production. It was directed by Guru Dutt. The movie had Guru Dutt, Geeta Bali, Ramsingh, Kuldip Kaur, Sulochana, Yashodhara Katju, Jaswant, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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Tere dukh ke din phirenge
Posted on: May 31, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I learnt only now on visiting this blog that today (31st may) is the death anniversary of Anil Biswas. On this occasion, I am putting together a very quick post for this blog, meant as a tribute to him.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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