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Mere dil ki duniya ujad gayi
Posted on: September 9, 2012
“Janmbhoomi” (1936) was a Bombay Talkies Production. Little is known about this movie today. I became aware of this movie thanks to a lovely song picturised on Devika Rani and a cute dog. It was then that Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopeadia, shared details about this movie. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Aa aaja o jaane wafaa
Posted on: September 8, 2012
Today (8 september) is the birthday of S Mohinder, a music director of yesteryears who gave us some wonderful songs in the golden era of Hindi movie music. Born in 1925, S Mohinder composed music in movies like “Sehra” (1948), “Jeewan Saathi” (1949), “Shrimatiji”(1952), “Bahaadur” (1953), “Paapi” (1955), “Naata”(1955), “Shehzaada” (1955), “Kaarwaan” (1956), “Shirin Farhad” (1956), “Mehlon Ke Khwaab” (1960), “Picnic” (1966) etc. He is one of those music directors who were criminally underutilised by the Hindi movie music industry.
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It is my observation that the careers of many actors in Hindi movies were made and sustained thanks to the great music that their movies had. It is difficult to imagine these movies becoming hits without their hit music. And as we all know, Hindi moviegoers are initially attracted towards movie halls because of the music and these songs are often one of the biggest selling points of these movies. Movies without songs have a hard time finding distributors.
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“Daaku” (1955) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Aspi Irani. This B grade movie had Shammi Kapoor, Shashikala, Kuldip Kaur,W. M. Khan, Anwar, Babu Raje, Sheikh etc.
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Today (8 september) is an important date for music lovers of Hindi movie songs. It was on this date in 1933 that Asha Bhonsle was born. Today she turns 79. And she has been giving playback in HIndi movies since 1948. So she has been a playback singer for the last sixtyfour years ! Simply unbelievable.
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Aao baithho baat suno
Posted on: September 7, 2012
Today (7 september) is G M Durrani’s death anniversary. G M Durrani, who began his playback career in 1930s, was active till 1950s. He had become so popular by early 1940s that the then up and coming Rafi regarded G M Durrani as his idol.
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Today (7 september) is the death anniversary of P L Santoshi (7 august 1916- 7 september 1978). His actual name was Pyarelal Srivastava and he was born in Jabalpur, the same place that Premnath came from.
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When the musical bandwagon of this blog rolls on at its cruising speed then we move on at the rate of 100 songs per fortnight. The previous century was one fortnight ago. In other words, we complete yet another century of songs with this song.
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“Ajeeb Ladki” (1952) was a Tajmahal Pictures Production. It was directed by Mohammad Ehsan. The movie had Rehman, Naseem Bano, Cuckoo, Shashikala, Agha, Jayant, Shyam Kumar, etc in it.
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“Kamal Ke Phool” (1950) was a Famous Pictures production. It was directed by D D Kashyap, The movie had Badri Prasad, Suraiya, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Niranjan Sharma, Shakuntala, Amarnath etc in it.
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