Archive for the ‘joie de vivre’ Category
“For Ladies Only” (1951) was a Jaimini Dewan Production movie. It was directed by Vedi and the movie had Satish, Sadana Bose, Roopa Verman, Kuldeep Kaur etc in it.
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Ghat kaari matwaari ghir aayee
Posted on: September 3, 2012
Today (3 september) is the death anniversary of Meena Shorey. it was on this day in 1989 that Meena Shorey breathed her last.
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Mast bahaaron ka main aashiq
Posted on: August 27, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days ago the blog completed 6500 songs and also 1600 songs of Rafi Sahab. Moreover Lata Mangeshkar also has achieved 1900 songs in the blog. So the two of them have featured in more than 3000 or almost 3500 songs in the blog. The difference being the Rafi-Lata duets and some more songs like group songs where they both are singing alongwith others.
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Main pankhh lagaa ke udd jaaun
Posted on: August 25, 2012
“Armaan” (1953) was a Film Trust of India production. It was directed by Fali Mistry. The movie had Madhubala, Jagirdar, Shakila, Gulab, Dev Anand, Murad, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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Baad e saba tu na aaye to kyaa
Posted on: August 9, 2012
“Apne Huye Paraaye” (1964) was a Mars & Movies Production. It was produced and directed by Ajit Kumar Chakraborty. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Shashikala, Agha, Sunder, Lalita Pawar, Dulari, Chand Burque, Iftekar, Savitri, Ramayan Tiwari, Naina, Padma Kumari,Pratap Singh, Joshi, Khan etc in it.
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“Shaukeen” (1982) was an comedy in the sense that it depicted the tale of three oldtimers who are on the lookout for young female company but with disastrous and supposedly funny results. This movie had Mithun Chakravarthy, Ashok Kumar, Jayshree.T., Utpal Dutt, A K Hangal ,Geeta Siddharth, Minaalini,Rati Agnihotri etc in it.
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Ye baat koi samjhaaye re
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sandhya Mukherjee is one of the relatively lesser known playback singers of 50s as far as Hindi film industy is concerned. But she has gone on to become one of the top most playback singers of Bengali films. I first came to know about her as a playback singer when I bought a 78 RPM record (No. N. 36794) of the film ‘Sazaa’ (1951) for the iconic song ‘tum na jaane kis jahaan mein kho gaye’. The other side of the gramophone record had “aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen” sung by Sandhya Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar. When I first listened to this song, I felt that I got a bonus song along with the iconic song of the film.
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“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Shyam Kumar, Munawwar Sultana, Nusrat, Badri Prasad, Husn Banu, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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Hum panchhi mastaane
Posted on: July 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is the death anniversary of Madan Mohan, a music composer who is synonymous with some of the finest music we have seen in Hindi cinema.
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Do din ki bahaar
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) was a Kardar Production. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suresh, Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Shyam Kumar, Jayant, Amar, Pratima Devi, Nawab etc in it.
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