Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

Archive for the ‘Melancholic song’ Category


“Halchal”(1951) had Dilip Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. This movie initially had Sajjad Hussain as the music director but he left the movie after recording three songs and then the music direction of this movie was entrusted on Md Shafi.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrbutor to this blog.

In Hindi film industry, there were producers/directors who initially started their careers as lyricists but over a period of time, they ventured into film production. As far as I know, this trend started with Kidar Sharma who joined New Theatres as a still photographer and a set painter before switching over to lyricist and dialogue writer. He was followed by P L Santoshi, Nakhshab, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Shailendra, Gulzar to give a few examples.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.

I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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“Aashiq” (1962) was a Reuben Dubey production movie. Bunny Reuben and Vijay Kishore Dubey were the producers of the movie. The movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Raj Kapoor,Padmini, Nanda, Raj Mehra, Johnny Walkar, Mukri, Keshto Mukherjee, Abhi Bhattacharya, Leela Chitnis, Honey Irani, Nana Palsikar, Achala Sachdev, Madhumati etc in it.
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Here is another song of the popular genre namely “How come this song was not yet discussed ! ” 🙂

This is a well known evergreen song which most music lovers know even if many of them are not aware of the details of the song. Even I was not aware about the details. It is only now that I have becme aware that this song is from ‘Hamraahi” (1963) and that it is picturised as a melancholic song on Rajendra Kumar and Jamuna.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

The film “Mere Armaan Mere Sapne” is a 1963 release by Lalit Kala Mandir, Bombay. This film is directed by Arbind Soni. The main star cast includes Pradeep Kumar, Kumari Naaz, Aeem Kumar, Jayshree Gadkar, Sumitra Devi, Pran, Asit Sen, Agha, Manmohan Krishan, Badri Prasad, Padma Devi, Paro Devi, Johnny Whisky, Samar Chatterjee, Pal Mahendra etc.
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