Archive for the ‘lullaby’ Category
“Ghar Sansaar” (1958) was a Pushpa Pictures Production. It was produced by A A nadiadwala and directed by V M Vyas. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nargis, Rajendra Kumar, Kumkum, Johnny Walker, Shammi, Kumari Naaz, Ansari, Baby Devika, Kathana, Krishnakant, Jilani, Mahabaleshwar, Parsuram, Iqbal, Alka, Master Nisar etc in it.
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Jhoome re jhoome re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Ramanand Sagar released his ‘Aankhen’ in 1968, the film took the box office by storm, and was declared as a blockbuster by the trade journals. Ramanand Sagar bagged the Filmare award for the best director, and the film also got the Filmfare award for color cinematography. The music was hit, with lyrics coming from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi and the music from the baton on Ravi. A film that truly settled Dharmendra’s career on a strong footing. In many ways, the film became a trendsetter.
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Nindiya aayi re
Posted on: April 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Kidar Sharma wrote the lyrics of the song so jaa rajkumari so jaa, he might not have been aware that he wrote the first lori (lullaby) song for a Hindi film. Another thing he did differently was that he wrote the lori lyrics for a male singer-actor (K L Saigal) whereas the lori is traditionally sung by women. This could happen because, as he said in his autobiography ‘The One and Lonely Kidar Sharma’ (2002), he had in fact written a lori ‘so jaa raj dulari so jaa, so jaa main balihaari so jaa’ especially for his wife Raj Dulari. But K L Saigal fell in love with it and pressurised Kidar Sharma to make it public. It was only after his wife agreed that Kidar Sharma consented to use this lori for the film ‘Zindagi” (1940) by changing ‘raj dulari’ to ‘rajkumari’. This lori sung by K L Saigal became very popular all over India.
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So jaa re so jaa mere raajdulaare
Posted on: April 14, 2013
“Zimbo” (1958) was a Basant Pictures production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Adeeb, Chitra, Azad, Krishna Kumari, Achla Sachdev, Sheikh, Dalpat, Pedro, B. M. Vyas, Sardar Mansoor, Habib etc in it.
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Taaron ki aankhon ka taara tu
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
PHOOLON KI SEJ (1964) was produced by the maestro P Adinarayana Rao under the banner of Anjali Pictures. The film was based on a novel ‘Andhere Chiraag’ written by Gulshan Nanda and directed by Inder Raj Anand who also wrote screen play and dialogues for the film. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Vyjayntimala, Manoj Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Anjali Devi, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiyalal, Mukri etc. All the songs of the film were written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by P Adinarayana Rao. Orchestration of the songs was done by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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So jaa saloney so jaa
Posted on: March 11, 2013
“Pathan” (1962), a by now obscure movie was a Madhubala Pictures private limited production. It was directed by Ataullah Khan. The movie had Premnath, Mumtaz, Siddhu, Niranjan Sharma, Iftekhar, Jugnu, Bhagwan, Achala Sachdev etc in it.
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So meri raani
Posted on: February 19, 2013
“Pehli Raat” (1959) was a Pushpa Pictures Production. It was produced by A A Nadiadwala and directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Nimmi, Rehman, Nanda, Sudesh Kumar,Sheela Kashimiri, Raj Prakash, Manorama, Jeevan, Amir Bai Karnataki, Johny Walker, Lalita Pawar, Munshi Munaqa, Adeeb, Daraz,Ratna,Maqbool, Paro etc in it.
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Khwaab ban kar koyee aayegaa
Posted on: February 14, 2013
“Razia Sultan” (1983) was a Rajdhani Films Pvt Ltd production. It was produced by A K Mishra and directed by Kamal Amrohi. The movie had Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Veena, Sohrab Modi, Pradeep Kumar, Heena Kauser, Madhu Malini, Parveen Babi, Sarika, Vijayendra Ghatge, Ajit, Dolly Jena, Sujata Bakshi, Gopi Krishna, Shandar Amrohi, Radha Saluja, Vijaya Girija, Chitra, Janki Das, Shau Modak, B.M.Vyas, Roop Darshani,Fayyaz Begum, Geeta Kapoor, Anu Dhawan, Mumtaz Begum, Reshma, Balraj, Uttam Sodhi, Kalpana, Amarjeet, D.S.Rana, M.M.Baig, Naseem, Husn Banu, Prem Lala, Shri Bhagwan, Arti Chopra, Roopmala, Shakila, Reshma, Mahipal etc in it.
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Lo chhip gaya chaand
Posted on: January 27, 2013
“Ham Panchhi Ek Daal Ke” (1957) was an AVM Productions movie. It was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Sumitra, P. Kailash, Kanu Roy, Majnu, Ranjan, Ameeta etc in it.
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Today (4 january 2013) is the birth anniversary of Nirupa Roy (4 January 1931 – 13 October 2004). To most moviewatchers, she was the eternally suffering Maa of Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor in several movies of 1970s, but that was only part of her impressive cv. She had made her debut an a movie actress in late 1940s and she acted as a leading lady in many movies throughout 1950s and early part of 1960s before easing into the roles of Bhabhi and later maa from late 1960s onwards. I find it curious to realise now that she at the age of 44, played the mother of Amitabh Bachchan (then aged 34) and Shashi Kapoor (then aged 38) in 1975 in Deewaar.
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