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This article is the 8400th song post in the blog.
People who are into watching Hindi movies must have noticed that the lead actors do not seem to do anything for their livelihood in Hindi movies. The hero in these movies is seen wooing the leading lady, first by singing a teasing song, then a romantic song. Then there would be a separation song, a misunderstanding song, a reconciliation song etc. Thinking about his/her love interest appears to be the full time job with Hindi movie lead actors which certainly cannot be one’s means of livelihood unless their names happen to be Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, who actually earned their livelihood by this method.
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Chal ae dil e majboor
Posted on: May 28, 2013
“Surang” (1953) was produced and directed by V Shantaram under the banner of Raj Kamal Kala Mandir Limited. The movie had Vinod Kumar,Sheila Ramani, Shashikala,Jogendra, Chandra Shekhar, Vikas, Ullhas, K Date, Gajendra ettc in it.
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Yoon na tan ke chalo
Posted on: May 19, 2013
“Dil Ne Pukaara” (1967) was a Mohan Films production. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kuplari. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Rajshree, Sanjay Khan, Helen, Mehmood, Achala Sachdev, Manmohan Krishna, Mirajkar, Moolchand, Tun Tun, Amrit Patel, Ridkoo etc in it.
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When I was a school kid then I found most, if not all subjects as boring. Even out of all these boring subjects, history took the cake. It was extremely difficult to remember the names of the kings, their eras, and what they did during their reign. And in case these kings happened to be born before the era of Christ then remembering their dates of birth and death was even more confusing. 🙂 Emperor Ashok, for instance was born in 304 BC and died in 232 BC. What kind of kings they were who died before they were born, was the doubt in the minds of many students of tender years.
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This artice is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is the birthday of one of our living legends – Manna Dey ji.
It is his 94th birthday – and although 94 is a ripe age, we wish him many more birthdays to come.
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Pehle beej akela
Posted on: May 1, 2013
I have received quite a few e mails today reminding me that today (1 may 2013) is the 94th birth anniversary of Manna Dey and that no Manna Dey songs have been discussed on the occasion so far. Have no worry, I was aware of the occasion and I fully intended to discuss quite a few Manna Dey songs on the occasion. It is just that it has taken me a bit longer to do that.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There is very little that I know about the 1953 film titled ‘Hamdard’. Well, besides the basic information of course. The Geet Kosh listings tell us that this film was produced by Asha Biswas, under the banner of Variety Pictures. The film is directed by S Bhagat, and the star cast includes Shekhar, Nimmi, Smriti Biswas, Yashodharat Katju, Ishu Jagirdar, Harish Bhardwaj, Rajan Kapoor, PD Lal, KS Sengar, and Shivraj etc. The film has a total of nine songs, eight of which come from the pen of Prem Dhawan and one is written by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The music is composed by Anil Biswas.
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Jab pyaar kiya to marna kyun
Posted on: April 2, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Films can be classified on the basis of many points. For example, B&W and colour films, Original or copied film, on the basis of Language or country, with songs or without songs etc.(My friend says there can be only one classification- Good or Bad films ! )
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Naach re mayuraa
Posted on: April 1, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati service of all India Radio (Aakashvani) were the two sources on which I used to listen to Hindi film songs’ programmes. I got to know only sometime in late 60s that Aakashvani stations were not broadcasting Hindi film songs prior to the setting of Vividh Bharati in 1957. Later I came to know that this policy decision was taken by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1952 when Dr B V Keskar, the then Information and Broadcasting Minister felt that Hindi film songs had become vulgar and westernised. It was decided that some songs having literary value such as those written by poets like Bhagwati Charan Verma and Pandit Narendra Sharma should be turned into songs and played on Aakashvani in place of Hindi film songs. It is said that some of such songs were composed by Anil Biswas. It was during this time that Lata Mangeshkar sang her first non-filmy song ‘yug ki sandhya krishak vadhu si’ written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and composed by Anil Biswas during. Unfortunately, this song’s disc was damaged during its first play on the radio and was thus lost forever.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
If one browses through the Hindi films made in the 1940s, it will be observed that there were many lesser known music directors who had tried their luck in Hindi films. My guess is that the number of such lesser known music directors in the 1940s may be a close to 50. Sadly, most of these talented music directors could not sustain their careers for long in the Hindi film industry. This blog has covered songs of many of lesser known music directors of the 40s such as Neenu Majumdar, Shanti Kumar Desai, Shyambabu Pathak, Madhulal Damodar Master, Ramchandra Pal etc. V Balsara was one among such music directors who started his career in Hindi films but could not sustain it for long as a music director. But he changed the track of his career and became a famous instrumentalist, orchestra conductor, a music teacher and the music director of non-filmy songs and a few Bengali films during rest of his life. I became aware of his name in the 1970s mainly for his beautiful compositions of some non-filmy Hindi songs.
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