Archive for the ‘Mujra song’ Category
“Jahaan Ara”(1964) is a movie that flopped big time at the box office. This movie was not meant for ordinary movie goers and the people appreciative of such movies did not add up to much those days.
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“Sahaara” (1958) was a Tasweeristaan Production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had M Rajan,Meena Kumari, Manoj Kumar, Sunder, Badri Prasad, Kuldip Kaur, Kanhaiyalal, Daisy Irani, Leela Misra, Nirnajan Sharma etc in it.
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“Jahaan Ara” (1964) is a movie that was a resounding flop at the box office which came as a severe jolt to Madan Mohan who had composed some fantastic songs in this movie.
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Recently , while discussing a mujra song composed by R D Burman, I made this observation that R D Burman had composed very few songs of this genre.
Now I have been given a list of lots and lots of mujra songs compositions of R D Burman by Prakashchandra. In fact he sent me the lyrics of a mujra song from the debut movie of R D Burman. Now I am suitably humbled by all this information which was not known to me.
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Aaj to meri hansi udaayi
Posted on: November 20, 2011
“Gomti Ke Kinaare” (1972), despite being a recent movie by the standards of this blog is a forgotten movie. this movie was produced and directed by Saawan Kumar Tak, who would later on specialise in making movies on the themes of Saajan and Sautan.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954) is a movie produced by Sahu Films and directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu,Sumitra Devi, Helen, David, Asha Mathur, Seema, Cuckoo, Ramesh Gupta, Odette Ferguson etc in it.
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“Rasiya” (1950) is a movie that never saw the light of the day as it was shelved midway. A few songs of this movie were already recorded by them and they had become popular as well.
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“Saahib Bibi Aur Ghulaam” (1962) was a Guru Dutt production movie. It was directed by Abrar Alwi. The movie had actors like Guru Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rehman, Waheeda Rehman, Sapru, Dhumal, N. Hussain, S. N. Banerjee, Krishan Dhawan, Jawahar Kaul, Bikram Kapoor, Pratima Devi, Ranjit Kumari, S. N. Banerjee, Krishan Dhawan, Jawahar Kaul, Bikram Kapoor, Bimla Kumari etc in it.
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I am aware of a movie called “Aan Baan” (1956), but it turns out that there was another movie of the same name in 1972 as well. I am surprised that I should know about the 1956 movie of this name , but be totally oblivious of the 1972 movie of this name.
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