Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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Khush rahe teri nagri beta
Posted on: September 23, 2012
“Ghar Basa Ke Dekho”(1963) was a Ratnadeep Productions movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Manoj KUmar, Rajshree, Lalita Pawar, Savitri, Shyama, Leela Mishra, Randhir, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Kaise naache Mayuri
Posted on: September 21, 2012
“Naache Mayuri”(1986)” was a Hindi remake of the Telugu “Mayuri”(1984). These movies were based on the real life story of Sudha Chandran. Sudha Chandran, a dancing enthusiast, had lost one leg in an accident. But she braved all odds and used artifical limb (prosthetic ‘Jaipur foot’) and continued to pursue her first love viz. dancing and became a leading dancer. She was invited to perform in India as well as abroad. Her fame spread and she got offers to work in movies. Telugu movie “Mayuri” (1984) was made on her own life. This movie became a big success at the box office. It was subsequently dubbed into Malayalam and Telugu with the same title. Later on, this movie was remade into Hindi as “Naache Mayuri” (1986).
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“Kinaare Kinaare”(1963) was produced by Nyay Sharma and directed by Chetan Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Meena Kumari, Chetan Anand, Jagdish Raj, Sundar, Kammo etc in it.
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Today (19 september 2012) is the death anniversary of Datta Davjekar (15 november 1917-19 september 2007). He was a music director of Marathi and Hindi movies. He did not compose music for too many Hindi movies, but his name has gone in record books as the music director who gave Lata her first opportunity to record a solo song in a Hindi movie. The movie was “Aap Ki Sewa Mein” (1947). This song Paa laagoon kar joree re has already been discussed in great details in this blog.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One song from this film “Yahudi ki Beti” was posted in the blog by Sudhir Sir. This link to this particular song under discussion now has been with me for a long time. There is a lot of confusion in youtube and even earthmusic.net about the name of the music director of this film. Even the name of singer is also a confusion. This particular link that I have found is for Mohammed Rafi solo version. The clip itself is giving the name of music director as Hemant Kumar. Earthmusic mentions this song as sung by Lata Mangeshkar and also by Asha-Hemant Kumar.”The songs are confused and mixed up with “”Yehudi ki ladki”(1957). To add to the confusion, there was a film with similar name i.e. “Yahudi ki Ladki” in 1933 too.
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“Basera” was a Rose Movies presentation. It was produced by Ramesh Behl and directed by Ramesh Talwar. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Rekha, Poonam Dhillon, Ifthekhar, A.K.Hangal, Raj Kiran, Master Vikas, Pardesi, Raj Verama/Chandu, Baby Gazala, Salma, Kirit Vyas, Mrs.H.F.Mistry, Vishwanath, Sudha Chopra, Gulshan/Harjeet, Raj Bharti, Tikka Singh etc in it.
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Lagan lagi hai sajan milan ki
Posted on: September 17, 2012
“Naata” (1955) was a Madhubala Pvt Ltd Production movie. It was directed by D N Madhok. The movie had Abhi Bhattacharya, Madhubala, Chanchal, Vijayalaxmi, Kanhaiyalal, Heeralal, Gope etc in it.
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HFGK lists nine songs in “Jaadu” (1951). There is one more song in addition in the movie, viz. Ab raat milan ki beet chuki but it is not considered a full fledged song by HFGK and it finds mention there only as a footnote.
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Tu kaun hai mera keh de baalam
Posted on: September 17, 2012
Here is this song from “Deedaar” (1951). It is sung by Lata and it is picturised on a lady looking extremely happy and besides herself with joy. I had great difficulty in identifying her and I actually rubbed my eyes in disbelief on realising that the lady in question was none other than Nimmi ! I was told that the only occasion when Nimmi was seen breaking into a faint smile was in a 1960s movie and that too towards the fag end of her career. but this song alters all that. She actually is seen smiling whole heartedly in this song.
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