Archive for the ‘Multiple version song’ Category
Ye khaamoshiyaan ye samaa
Posted on: June 16, 2012
Hindi movie Music basically has three major fields, namely singing, lyrics writing and music composition. All these are specialised fields. People who are good in two of these fields can be called musical all rounders.
That way Hemant Kumar was a true musical all rounder. He can be described as a great in music composition as well in playback singing. And that is reflected in this blog too where Hemant Kumar has completed his century of songs as a music director and as a playback singer both. To this date, he is the only artist in the blog to have done so.
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Nainaa boley nainaa
Posted on: June 3, 2012
Today (3rd june) happens to be the birthday of Illayaraja. Like many greats of South Indian movies, he too had a brief foray into Hindi movies, though working in South Indian movies continued to be their major field of activity where he has been a legend for the past few decades.
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Khudaara yoon na dil todo
Posted on: June 2, 2012
“Ye Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai” (1966) was produced and directed by R K Naiyyar. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Saira Bano, Madan Puri, Ashok Kumar, Motilal, Badri Prasad, Manmohan etc in it.
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Yaad rakhnaa chaand taaron
Posted on: May 31, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had heard popular songs from ‘Kismet’ (1943) in my childhood. But it took another two decades for me to know that Anil Biswas composed those immortal songs. It was during one of the sittings in my friend’s house sometime in early 70s when I listened for the first time a song from ‘Taraana’ ( 1951)- seene me sulagte hain armaan that I came to know of him as music director. Subsequently,I heard many of his songs from films of 40s and 50s and I started liking those songs. It took me another four decades to know about Anil Biswas’s detailed profile and filmography by which time I realised that he was an institution by himself.
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“Daaku Ki Ladki” (1954) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a Harish production movie. It was produced and directed by Harish. The movie had Geeta Bali, Sheikh Mukhtar, Arjun, Mukri, Deepa, Shivraj, Cuckoo, Sankatha Prasad etc in it.
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Bhari mehfil hai ye afsaana nahin
Posted on: May 22, 2012
Most mujra songs in Hindi movies are rather “light” in nature in the sense that the clients as well as the mujra performers seem to be at ease with themselves. In reality, performing mujra as well as going to kotha to watch these performances was regarded as disreputable acts.
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Tum aaj mere sang hans lo
Posted on: May 20, 2012
“Aashiq” (1962) was a Reuben Dubey Production movie. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Raj kapoor, Padmini, Nanda, Abhi Bhattacharya, Mukri, Raj Mehra, Nana Palsikar, Achla Sachdev, Honey Irani, Keshto Mukherjee, Leela Chitnis, Madhumati, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Jo ik baar keh do ke tum ho hamaare
Posted on: May 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In around mid-50s, I used to often hear a song ‘chal chal re musaafir chal’ and I liked it. But I had no idea or rather I never ventured to know as to which film this song belonged. It was sometime in early 70s when I came across an used 78 RPM record of this song that I became aware of the film’s name and other details. The film was POOJA (1954) and it was a kind of surprise to me that the film which had Shanker-Jaikishan as music director had become an obscure film. No doubt, this film is yet to make a debut in this blog. Recently, I heard some more songs from this film on the internet. What a treasure of songs the film had.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I browse through my collection, through the YouTube, and through the Geet Kosh, I have jotted down a fairly long list of films that are still waiting in the wings to find an entry on this blog. And they satisfy two very important criteria that are kind of a thumb rule here. Most of these films are rare and obscure, and more importantly, they have music and songs that are just superb. Rather, these films carry songs that may not be all obscure, they have been popular, or at least played often on the radio, and are in the public memory. But the information about their creators, and the films to which these belong is not easy to relate.
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