Archive for the ‘movie opening song’ Category
Taqdeer kahaan le jaayegi
Posted on: November 21, 2011
“Saanjh Aur Sawera” (1964) is a S J Films presentation. It was produced by Sevanti Lal Shah and the movie was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The sar cast included Meena Kumari, Gurudutt, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Manmohan krishna, Ruby Paul (aka Praveen paul), Padmadevi,Preethi Bala(aka Zeb Rehman),Jagdev,Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Kanu Roy, Rashid Khan etc.
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Samay o dheere chalo
Posted on: November 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Bhupen Hazaarika, the sound and the soul of culture of the east, is now silent, forever. A stalwart of many talents who would be honored by audiences and critics in many countries, a multi faceted personality who was single handedly responsible for breathing life into the endeavors of Assamese cinema, bringing international recognition to the age old music and culture of far eastern India.
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“Ummeed” (1971) is an obscure movie, despite this movie being of relatively recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was a Rajan Films production and it was directed by Nitin Bose. The cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nanda,Leela Naidu, Joy Mukherjee, Tuntun, Agha, Leela Misra etc. This movie must have sunk without a trace, because I have not heard of this movie despite this movie getting released when I was at my most alert and curious as a pre teen kid.
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Ye faasle teri galiyon ke
Posted on: October 11, 2011
I am not much aware about the movies and songs of 1990s and later. So when it comes to discussing the movies and songs from these movies, I am in unfamiliar territory. When I needs to discuss songs sung by Jagjit Singh (8 feb 1941-10 oct 2011), I need the help of those regulars who are failiar with such movies and their music in which Jagjit Singh figured. I am extremely thankful to Prakashchandra who promptly sent me the lyrics of a few songs (as well as details about these songs and their movies).
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“Ek Saal” (1957) is a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala. This song has some nice songs in it as was usually the case with most movies, and more so with movies that had music composed by Ravi. I have already discussed four great songs fro this movie including the all time classic Sab kuchh luta ke hosh mein aaye to kyaa kiyaa.
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Saanwre saanwre
Posted on: August 3, 2011
This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and they do not have much appreciation of their rich legacy, so showing callous disregard to such great works of art will naturally follow.
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Shrishti thhi anjaan
Posted on: April 20, 2011
“Stree”(1961) is a movie produced by V Shantaram and starring V Shantaram,Sandhya, Parda Chawan, Mumtaz etc. This movie, as well as its music may have been forgotten, but when I discovered the music of this movie some one year back, I loved it. And by now I have discussed as many as three songs from this movie.
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Raahi tu mat ruk jaanaa
Posted on: February 18, 2011
There have been several songs sung by Kishore Kumar under the music direction of Hemant Kumar. But here is a song where the roles are reversed. Here it is Hemant Kumar singing under the music direction of Kishore Kumar !
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Ye zindagi hai ik safar
Posted on: February 17, 2011
“Raahi” (1953) is a K A Abbas movie based on novelist Mulkraj Anand’s novel of the same name. This movie had Nalini Jaiwant, Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni etc in it.
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Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie. This song is a movie opening song in the sense that this song plays in the background as the creditss roll on the screen. And the credits roll on the screen rather interestingly too.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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