Archive for the ‘Multiple version song’ Category
Meri jaan tum pe sadke
Posted on: February 14, 2011
“Saawan Ki Ghataa” (1966) is one of the lesser known movies as far as I am concerned. This movie had Manoj Kumar and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles.
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Aa teri tasweer banaa loon
Posted on: February 10, 2011
“Naadaan” (1951) is a movie starring Dev Anand and Madhubala.
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The technology of recording Hindi movie songs in the earlier decades was not very advanced. It was not possible to use the same recording for both the movie as well as the record companies, so the same song was recorded twice- once for the movie sound track, and another time for the record company.
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“Ek Jhalak” (1957) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar,Vyjyanti Mala,Anita Guha,Rajendra Kumar,Om Prakash, Mubarak, Pran etc. This movie may have been forgotten today, but this movie to my mind should be remembered for the songs and music of Hemant Kumar.
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Nayi manzil nayi raahein
Posted on: January 21, 2011
I keep repeating ad nauseum in these pages that there are many great gems lying forgotten out there as far as Hindi movie songs are concerned. I keep discovering such songs almost on a daily basis.
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During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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Dheere dheere aare baadal
Posted on: December 20, 2010
“Kismat” (1943) was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi movies. This movie was the first multi starrer movie in the Hindi movie industry. Its songs were hugely popular, and remain so to this day.
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I was not aware of this movie called “Naghma”(1953). Now I know about this movie and I wonder how the songs of this movie have managed to escape the attention of music lovers.
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Aur kyaa ahad e wafaa hote hain
Posted on: December 8, 2010
By 1980s, both Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were over the hill and they had graduated to playing the roles of parents.
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“Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka” (1975) is a movie where Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were paired together. This movie had some superb songs in it.
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