Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Ham par jaadoo daal gaye ho julmi
Posted on: July 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
July 17th is the birth anniversary of Snehal Bhatkar ( 17/07/1919 – 29/05/2007), one of the forgotten music directors of the Hindi film industry. On his last death anniversary, I had written an article on him for this blog. So I would skip his profile. Snehal Bhatkar was a talented music director who, like many lesser known music directors, lost in the rigmarole of the Hindi film industry.
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Buddhu pad gaya palle
Posted on: July 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Yesterday, Atul ji has posted a song whose lyrics were sent in by Prakash ji. The song –“Kaise Mitti Ke Maadho Se Paala Padaa” . On screen, it is Leena Chandavarkar trying to woo an apparently unwilling Sanjeev Kumar who seemingly does not understand the moves she is making and the words she is singing. Or maybe he does, but is choosing to remain aloof and unconcerned. I remember this song from the radio listening days, but I saw the video only today. And as soon as the song started, and Leena Chandavarkar started to sing out her complaints to her ‘beau fatale’, I immediately recalled another song – same era, same pair of actors on screen, the same complaint. Well one difference, the mood in the song that I refer to, is a bit more explicit, and a bit more demanding.
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Aisa hota to nahin
Posted on: July 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Sannaata’ is a film from 1966 that has simply sublime music composed by Hemant Da. The film has only 4 songs, and all of them are absolute gems of melody.
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This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Directed by M.L. Anand, Bewefa (1952) was a Raj Kapoor-Nargis-Ashok Kumar love triangle. Both versions of its iconic song “Dil matwaalaa laakh sambhaalaa” rendered separately by Talat Mahmood and Lata Mangeshkar are already on this blog. Video clips of its most others numbers too are on YouTube. But the video clip of a superlative Lata number Badnaseebi kaa gilaa ai dil-e-naashaad na kar has gone missing. I am not sure if this number was only recorded but not included in the movie itself. But if it was shot, it would be reasonable to assume that it was on Nargis herself exhorting herself to desist lamenting her ill-fate.
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Na jaa o mere hamdam
Posted on: July 15, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The movie “Pyaar ka mausam” is a nice package of beautiful songs. It has less songs than other Nasir Hussain movies, but then all of them are good quality songs.
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Aa nainon mein jhoom kar saajnaa
Posted on: July 15, 2012
“Daara” (1953) is an extremely obsure movie, which is confused by all with “Daaera”(1953), another obsure movie released in the same year.
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Koi to sune mere gham ka fasaana
Posted on: July 14, 2012
“Malhaar” (1951) was a Darling Pictures Production. Mukesh was the producer of this movie and the movie was directed by Harish. The movie had Arjun Bakshi and Shammi in lead roles.
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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.
July 14th is the 37th death anniversary of the great maestro Madan Mohan ( 25/06/1924 – 14/07/1975). An artillery man in the army during the second world war, he aspired to become an actor in the Hindi film industry. After the end of second world war, he quit army and came to Bombay (Mumbai). He did act in a few films like ‘Shaheed’ (1948) but the almighty seemed to have already decided him to be a music director. His father, Rai Bahadur Chunnilal Kohli was a big name in the Hindi film industry ( being partner in Bombay Talkies and later Filmistan) in the 40s. But he was against his son joining the film industry. As a result, Madan Mohan had to struggle a lot to get an entry into Hindi film industry of his own efforts. He started his career as an assistant to music directors Shyam Sundar and S D Burman sometime in the late 40s.
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Kaun suney fariyaad hamaari
Posted on: July 12, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) was a Kardar Productions movie. 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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Jaa re baadal
Posted on: July 11, 2012
“Kailashpati” (1962) was a B grade mythological movie which was an Alice Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Dhirubhai Desai. The movie had Sumitra Devi, Mahesh kumar Desai, Jeevan, Niranjan Sharma, Padma Rani, Premlata, Paul Sharma, Abhimanyu Sharma, Bhoj Kumar, Polson, Laxmi Kant Bagla, Champak Lala, Darshan Kumar, Dushyant, Nitin Kumar, S.P.Kalla, Deepak Kumar, Prakash Bagla, Indira Bansal etc in it.
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