Archive for the ‘Manna Dey songs’ Category
Ek ritu aaye ek ritu jaaye
Posted on: March 12, 2014
This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
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Raag Maalikaa in Hindi Films – 5
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‘Sau Saal Baad’ of 1966 was an unsuccessful ghostly mystery film, produced by B K Dubey. The star cast included Feroz Khan, Kumkum, Manmohan Krishna, Rajendra Nath, D K Sapru etc. Lyrics were by Aanand Bakshi and the superb music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The music duo, with good knowledge of classical music composed this RaagaMaala, one of the best to be composed in Hindi Films. Singers Manna Dey and Lata Mangeshkar were unmatched as they always were, whenever singing of classical songs in HFM was concerned. Anand Bakshi provided beautiful typical traditional type of lyrics for those four compositions in Raagas Dhanya Dhaivat (a rare Raaga), Abhogi, Megh Malhar and Basant Bahar. The impressive violin piece after the first part, was played by Pt. Husnalal, who gave hit music in many Hindi films of Forties and Fifties with his brother, a team well-known as Husnalal-Bhagatram.
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Rimjhim rimjhim saawan barse
Posted on: March 7, 2014
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“Dilli Ka Daada” (1962) was directed by R S Tara for Film Sagar productions. The movie had Sahira, Sheikh Mukhtar, Shekhar, Mukri, Nishi etc in it.
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Rare Performances – Things Unique and Unexpected #5
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Most artists are typecast – very strictly, very narrowly, and sometimes one would say, very harshly too. The first level of typecasting is basic and is based on the chosen field of performance. Artists are lyricists, writers, music directors, actors, singers, directors etc. This level of categorization is natural and acceptable. Almost always, an artist will
focus on his or her chosen field of specialization. And that is where majority of them remain confined for a majority of the time of their careers.
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Om Jai Jai Mahadev
Posted on: February 23, 2014
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
This year (2014) the Mahashivratri day falls on the 27th February and it will be celebrated with lots of religious fervour throughout India.
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Ye rang birangi dor re
Posted on: February 21, 2014
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“Mazdoor” (1945) was directed by Nitin Bose for Filmistan. The movie had Nasir Khan, Indumati, Veera, Motibai, K N Singh, S Nasir, S L Puri etc in it.
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Gurur bramha
Posted on: February 20, 2014
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Raag Maalikaa in Hindi Films – 3
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Rajkamal Kalamandir’s Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje was a 1955 Indian classical dance (Katthak) based film, produced and directed by V Shantaram. Shantaram’s wife Sandhya and dancer Gopi Krishan were in lead roles along with Keshavrao Date, Madan Puri, Manorama, Bhagwan etc. One of the earlier Technicolor films made in India, it was a “Super Hit” at the box office.
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Jaago aayee usha
Posted on: February 13, 2014
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Writing about old films and old songs is not an easy job. Particularly,if you are writing about Debut Films and Debut songs,it is a Herculean task to find out which is the real Debut song/Film. This is because, as I always say, we are a poor nation as far as recording film history is concerned. There are conflicting claims made by Internet sites and so called experts. Even books are not reliable, as I found recently. Therefore, it is very difficult to verify any information.
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“Dil Bhi Tera Ham Bhi Tere” (1960) was directed by Arjun Hingorani for Kanwar Kala Mandir Productions. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Usha Kiran, Kumkum, Sushil, Mohan Choti, Jankidas, Dharmendra, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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The best memory I have of this artist is the visual from ‘Araadhna’ (1969), sitting in the driver seat, looking crisp and dapper in a suit and matching cap, driving single handedly and playing mouth organ with the free hand, maneuvering the vehicle so that it keeps pace with the small toy train as it wounds its way on the hilly trek to Darjeeling, thus enabling a free hand to Rajesh Khanna to perform his gymnastics in the open top vehicle, as he belts out the now iconic “Mere Sapnon Ki Rani Kab Aayegi Tu”, serenading a coy Sharmila Tagore sitting in a window seat of the train, hiding her face behind Alistair MacLean’s novel, ‘When Eight Bells Toll’, but also peeking from the edges of the book that she is obviously not reading.
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