Archive for the ‘Lyrics by Prakashchandra’ Category
O sapnon ki raani
Posted on: February 2, 2012
In 1960s and 1970s, movie halls used to hire a rickshaw in which they would install an announcer with a PA system as well as a record player. The rickshaw would be covered with the cardboard hoardings of handmade posters of the movie.
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Most music directors of B grade movies tend to remain confined to B grade music throughout their careers. But the music director duo of Laxmikant Pyarelal were no ordinary music director duo. They began their career as independent music directors with B grade movies/ small budget movies, but they created such stunning music in these movies that they quickly joined the ranks of the most sought after music directors in the Hindi movie music industry.
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Jaata hai to jaa o jaanewaale
Posted on: January 31, 2012
“King Kong” (1962) was a Santosh Productions movie. It was produced by Devi Sharma and directed by Babubhai Mistry. This B grade movie had Dara Singh and Kumkum in lead roles, with Parveen Choudhary, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Uma Dutt, King Kong, Chandrashekhar etc also figuring in the movie.
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Maano to main Ganga maa hoon
Posted on: January 30, 2012
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“Ganga Ki Saugandh” (1978) is a Sultan Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Sultan Ahmad. Starcast of the movie included names like Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Amjad Khan, Farida Jalal,Bindu, I.S.Johar, Anwar Hussain, Ifthekar, Jagdeep, Anju Mahendru, Master Shetty, Tabrez, Shetty, Mukhri, Pran,Jeevan, Nana Palshikar, Achala Sachdev, Sulochana Latkar, Satyen Kappu, ParoDevi, Reddy, Fazloo,Nazir Kashimiri, Sandow, Tiwari, Murad, Hercules, MacMohan, Rajni Gupta, Keshav Rana, Purnima, Yogesh Chabra, Brahm Bhardwaj, Sanjana, Dulari,Jillani,Pardesi, etc.
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“Neela Aakaash” (1965) is a movie which was produced and directed by Rajendra Bhatia for Kiron Productions. Starcast of the movie included names like Mala Sinha, Dharmendra, Madan Puri, Manorama, Shashikala, Madhvi, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Sabita Chatterjee, Mehmood, Mumtaz Begum, Jeevan Kala, Hari Shivdasani etc.
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Ye mulaaqaat ik bahaana hai
Posted on: January 22, 2012
I was not sure how many songs I will be able to discuss today since I am undertaking a long 20 hours journey by train and going by my past experience, I know that internet connectivity is a problem during that time. But I am pleasantly surprised to fingd that the internet has held up for nearly an hour. It helps that the train is passing through an area which is a metropilital city and as such good connectivity is assured as long as the train remains in this area (which means for another 10 minutes). So I may as well make the most of it.
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“Poonam”(1952) is a movie produced by Kay Arts. P N Arora was the producer and M Sadiq directed the movie. The star cast included names like Ashok KUmar, Kamini Kaushal, Sajjan, Omprakash, Asha Mathur etc.
I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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On the occasion of Kaifi Azmi’s birthday (19th january), we are discussing a few songs written by Kaifi Azmi.
Here is a song from “Arth” (1982). This song, which is picturised as a get together song, is sung by Jagjeet Singh. It is picturised on Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda etc. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kuldeep Singh Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh.
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“Naina” (1972) is an obscure movie despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was produced by Babubhai Shah and directed by Kanak Mishra. The star cast consisted of names like Shashi kapoor, Rajshree,Mousmi Chatterjee, Padma Khanna, Praveen Paul, David Abraham, Rehmaan, Akashdeep, Sanjana, Sunder, Shaukat Kaifi Azmi etc.
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Today (19 january) is the date of birth of Kaifi Azmi. To many music lovers of younger generations, he may be a lesser known name, and even to me, he was a “boring” lyricist when I was growing up. Having grown up (hopefully) 🙂 I have come to appreciate Kaifi Azmi better. We have over one hundred Kaifi Azmi songs in this blog and that speaks volumes about the fact that Kaifi Azmi was one of the major contributors in making the Golden era of Hindi movie music what it was, viz a memorable era for music lovers.
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