Archive for the ‘Melancholic song’ Category
Aaoge na saajan aaoge na
Posted on: May 9, 2013
“Jaan Pehchaan” (1950) was an United Technicians Production. It was directed by Fali Mistry. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Dulari, Amar, Mukri etc in it.
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Dukh se bhara hua hai dil
Posted on: May 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Hindi film industry, there were many artists – actors, playback singers, lyricists and music directors who after starting their careers soon faded into oblivion as they could not get on a firm footing in the industry. But there were some who remained with the film industry for a long time even though success eluded them. One of such artists was Shankar Dasgupta, playback singer and music director.
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Wohi rota hua ek dil
Posted on: May 6, 2013
“Lahore” (1949) was a Jaimini Dewan Production movie. It was produced by Jaimini Dewan and directed by M L Anand. The movie had Karan Diwan, Nargis, Kuldeep Kaur, Pratima Devi, Om Prakash, Gulab, Randhir, Balak Ram etc in it.
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Hindi movie titles are often like comets that visits us at periodical intervals. For instance, the title “Dost” seems to get repeated once every decade. We have had movies with this title in 1944, 1954 and 1974. We did not have a movie of the title “Dost” in 1964, but we had “Dosti” in 1964 !
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O dil mein basaane waale
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Jeewan Nauka” (1952) was a K and K Production. This movie was directed by K Vembu. The movie had Thikkurissi, B. S. Saroja, Girija etc in it.
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Allah bhi hai mallah bhi hai
Posted on: April 21, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
For some artists, it is never any effort on this blog to search new songs and track numbers posted. Their numbers continue to keep incrementing, just in the process of posting as it is. Some names are really apparent. Rafi Sb, Lata ji, Asha ji, Kishore Da etc. And hence, their milestones continue to occur, as a matter of routine, whatever may be the other compulsions to add new posts. (As I commented in an earlier post, the number of songs of Kishore Da showcased here seems proportionately lesser, only because he made his volumes in the 70s and 80s, and we have on this blog traditionally been focusing on the decades prior to that.)
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Khushi ki aas rahi dil ko
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Saawan Aaya Re” (1949) was a Hindustan Chitra Production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Pratima Devi, Ramola, Sofia, Mohana, Gulab, Anant Prabhu, Promoth Bose, David Abraham, Ramesh Gupta etc in it.
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Ham kyun rote hain raaton ko
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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Chhod chaley munh mod chaley
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Suhaagraat” (1948) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Begam Para, Geeta Bali, Maruti etc in it.
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“Nargis” (1946), an obscure movie by now, had Nargis, Shahnawaz, Alka Achrekar, Pratima Devi , Rehman, David, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhagwan, Tabassum etc in it.
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