Archive for the ‘Lata song’ Category
Jis din se miley tum ham
Posted on: April 19, 2013
I have mentioned in the past that Hindi movie music is like an ocean and that some of gems in this ocean are buried deep and they can be brought up only by diving deep into it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
KAPOOR Khandaan is called the First family of Bollywood, not for nothing !
Starting with Prithwiraj Kapoor till Kareena and Ranbir, all through the generations, they have been shining in the film industry. This is not just because they belonged to the Kapoor khandaan. In film industry, particularly in the acting field, one can not survive for long, if one has no talent or if he is not doing hard work. One’ s ancestry alone is not acceptable to the Indian audience. This has been proved time and again. For example, Raaj kumar, Raj Babbar, Rajendra Kumar or Shashi Kapoor were successful actors, but what happened to their sons ?
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Itna to bata de ae dil
Posted on: April 17, 2013
The popularity of characters such as Tarzan shows that there is a child within all human beings, no matter how much they grow up physically. The fact that there have been so many movies on the theme of characters like Tarzan and Zimbo means that this theme must have paid off for the makers of these movies.
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Sun saahiba sun pyaar ki dhun
Posted on: April 15, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I am told by my daughter (don’t know how she keeps track of all this in between her tight schedule of finishing her projects etc) that today (15 april 2013) is Hasrat Jaipuri’s birthday. I am sure every one knows a lot about Hasrat Saab’s history, where he was born (Jaipur), his birth name (Iqbal Hussain). How he fell in love with a Hindu girl in his youth – the song “Yeh Mera Prem Patra Padhkar” was written for her (so says Wikipedia) which was later used in “Sangam” by Raj Kapoor.
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“Lalkaar” (1972) was produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar. The movie had Mala sinha, Rajinder Kumar, Kumkum, Dharmendra, Dara Singh, Sujit Kumar, Agha, Roopesh Kumar, Ramesh Deo, Dev Kumar, Nazir Hussain,Tuntun, Kesto Mukherjee, Nana Palshikar, Raj Mehra,Shetty,Sushama Shrestha, Kamal Kapoor, Shyam Kumar, Ram Mohan, Radhe Shyam, Narbada Shankar, Brahm Bhardwaj, Hira Lal, Gopal, Manmohan, Ratan Gaurang etc in it.
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Chanda chamakti raat
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Do Dulhe” (1955), by now an obscure movie, was an United Art production movie. It was directed by K J Mahadevan. The movie had Sajjan, Shyama, Lalita Pawar, Vanjana, David Abraham, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Kanhaiyalal, B. M. Vyas, Ishwarlal etc in it.
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“Majboor” (1948) was a Bombay Talkies Production. It was directed by Nazir Ajmeri. The movie had Shyam, Sohan, Amir Banu, Munawwar Sultana, Indu, Shivraj etc in it.
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Hello Mr Dil
Posted on: April 13, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Lata Mangeshkar has sung with G M Durrani only 11 songs, six of them are light-hearted, teasing or ‘sawaal-jawaab’ (question-answer) type. Here is one of such songs ‘ hello mister dil betaab ho kiske liye’ from the film ANAND BHAWAN (1953) sung by them. The star cast included Manhar Desai, Nigar Sultana, Trilok Kapoor, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc. The film had eight songs of which four each were written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and Noor Lucknawi. The songs were composed by Vasant Desai. One song from the film has been covered in the blog. The song under discussion was written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.
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I grew up with the music of late 1960s and early 1970s. That was the time when R D Burman burst into the scene like a tornado. When things settled, the musical scene was totally rearranged with old order finding themselves becoming irrelevant in no time.
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“Bahut Din Huye” (1954) was a Gemini Production movie. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had Madhubala, M K Radha, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Savitri, Gulab, Ratan Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Pushpavalli, Kailash, Swaraj etc in it.
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