Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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I have mentioned in the past that the Bollywood movies of the past used to have their get togethers not in hotels, but in their palatial houses that every hero/ heroine used to possess. Their palatial house used to have a big hall for the purpose of these get together. And in these occasions, the hero/ heroine was required to sing a song. A grand piano was kept in the hall near the big staircase (that led to the upper floor)for the purpose of this song. The hero/ heroine, after initial nakhra, would get seated on the piano and then sing a song accompanied by music.The music incidentally would bear little resemblence to the music that normally comes out of a grand piano.
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“Chhaaya” (1961) was a movie starring Sunil Dutt and Asha Parekh. And like most movies of those days, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have posted three songs from this movie already, and more songs from this movie need to be posted.
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I was under the impression that that the title song (Saarangaa teri yaad mein(Saarangaa)(1960)) of “Saarangaa” (1960) was the only memorable song from this movie. But then I discovered and posted another awesome song (Haan deewaanaa hoon main (Saarangaa)) from this movie. And now I am discovering that other songs of this movie are also wonderful songs. In other words, this movie is a musical blockbuster !
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When “Hum Log” is mentioned, most people remember the first mega serial in Indian TV which was aired on Doordarshan (India’s government TV channel, which was the only TV channel in India at that time) in 1980s. But three decades earlier, there was a Hindi movie by this name too.
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In my bid to clear the backlog of my old farmaishes, here is one song whose farmaish was given more than one year back. This song is from “Suhaagan” (1964). This song is a duet sung by Lata and Manna Dey. Madan Mohan is the music director. Madan Mohan teamed up with Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and Rajinder Krishan in most of his movies and on the other hand he rarely worked with the leading names (Shailendra, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi and Hasrat Jaipuri). But in this movie, he worked with Hasrat Jaipuri. And what superb lyrics Hasrat Jaipuri came up with in this movie !
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Music of “Naagin” (1954) became so popular that it led to many movies with similar plots and indeed similar music. Not just other music directors, even Hemant Kumar (music director of “Naagin” ) created similar music in subsequent movies.
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Today, when I am looking at the list of old farmaishes that I have yet to comply, I came across this song “Chaand jaane kahaan kho gayaa”. When I listened to this song, I wondered how I had failed to post this song till today.
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“Naagin” (1954) has so many songs that it is easy to lose track of them. And there are songs which seem like extensions of earlier songs. For instance, the song “teri yaad mein jalkar dekh liyaa” is immediately followed by “Oonchi oonchi duniyaa ki ” song.
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