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Aa jaane wafaa aa
Posted on: November 23, 2011
“Anarkali” (1953) is a musical blockbuster which has great songs following one after another. The music of this movie is composed by C Ramchandra.
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Raj Kapoor and Nargis formed one of the most memorable pairs in the history of Hindi movies. This pairing began in late 1940s, and lasted for just under one decade, when Nargis married Sunil Dutt and settled into a life of domestic bliss.
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Har janam mein hamaara milan
Posted on: November 22, 2011
There are some songs that I heard in my younger days and liked them without having much clue about their details. with time, these songs were forgotten. I have become reacquainted with several of these songs again after a passage of three decades or so. And I am not the only one. Several readers of the same generation also offered similar remarks about these songs.
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Most of the songs discussed in this blog are movie songs that were part of some movies. In some rare cases, we also discuss songs that were excluded from the released movie, either at the time of release or later.
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O jaadoogar pyaar ke ye bataa
Posted on: November 22, 2011
“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) is a Talwar Films presentation. It was directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Mridula, Sulochana Chatterji, Sadhana Choudhry, Vishwa Mehra etc in it.
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When I take a look at the list of movies whose songs have figured in this blog, I find that just over 1800 movies are represented in the blog. Most of these movies date from 1930s upto 1980s, during which time about 5600 Hindi movies got censors certificate. So roughly speaking about one third of all released movies till 1980s are represented in this blog.
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Recently , while discussing a mujra song composed by R D Burman, I made this observation that R D Burman had composed very few songs of this genre.
Now I have been given a list of lots and lots of mujra songs compositions of R D Burman by Prakashchandra. In fact he sent me the lyrics of a mujra song from the debut movie of R D Burman. Now I am suitably humbled by all this information which was not known to me.
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“Jailor” (1958) was a Minerva movietone movie. it was directed by Sohrab Modi. The star cast included Sohrab Modi, Geeta Bali, Kamini Kaushal,Pratima Devi, Abhi Bhattacharya, Nana Palsikar, Daisy Irani, Raj Kumar, E. Tarapore etc.
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Mera jeewan kuchh kaam na aayaa
Posted on: November 21, 2011
In 1970s, there were two title songs beginning with the words ‘Mera Jeewan’. One of the songs was ‘Mera Jeewan Kora Kaagaz…’ from “Kora Kaagaz”(1974). Another song was ‘Mera jeewan kuchh kaam na aaya..’ from “Mera Jeewan”(1976).
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“Chaar Darvesh” (1964) is a quintessential B grade movie. It was directed by Homi Wadia nd the cast included names like Saeeda Khan, Feroz Khan,Sunder, Naaz, Mukri, B. M. Vyas, Ratnamal, Jeevankala, Paul Sharma, Amarnath, W. M. Khan etc.
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