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Today (23 august) is the birthday of Sapan Chakraborty. For much of his career, he was as assistant of R D Burman. He worked as an independent music director in a few Hindi and Bangla movies too. Moreover he has sung a few songs in Hindi movies too.
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Bolo bolo kuchh to bolo
Posted on: August 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ was released in 1959, the only thing I remembered at that time about the movie was that it was a film in which Asha Parekh was introduced as a new heroine to pair with Shammi Kapoor. The film was a super hit and its songs became very popular. But little did I know at that time that the film’s songs were composed by a new music director called Usha Khanna. In fact, I carried a wrong impression for some time that O P Nayyar was the music director of this film. Even for her second film ‘ Hum Hindustani’ which was released in 1960, I thought that the music director was Dattaram, the music assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan. I carried these impressions as the music compositions of these two films were very close to the styles of O P Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan respectively. After about 4 decades when I revisited her songs, mostly of 60s and 70s, I felt that she had developed her own style of music for the songs of her later films.
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Apni baanhon se koi kaam to lo
Posted on: August 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This song is Hasrat Jaipuri’s 400th song in the blog
Today is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor, one of Hindi cinema’s most loved actors of all-time.
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“Amir Gharib” (1974) was an Em Kay Films private Ltd production. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Nazima, Premnath, Helen, Ranjeet, Sujeet Kumar, Raj Mehra, Sulochana Latkar, Chaman Puri, Birbal, Master Ravi, Jr.Mehmood, Bunty, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begum, Ram mohan, Dulari, Krishnakant, V.Gopal, Tuntun, Keshav Rana, Kamal Deep, Jerry, Rajan Kapoor, Moolchand, Ram Avtaar, Sajan, Kuljeet, Sopariwala etc in it.
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Tum saamne baithhe raho
Posted on: August 9, 2012
Experienced music lovers can often identify the music director by listening to the music of a song. Most music directors have their “signature” tunes that differentiate them from others. So most of the time one can identify a tune as being a tune of Naushad, O P Nayyar, Madan Mohan, S D Burman, Roshan, Shankar Jaikishan, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc.
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Arre nazar lage na saathiyon
Posted on: August 4, 2012
The first solo song that Kishore Kumar sang in his playback career was for Dev Anand in the movie “Ziddi” (1948) under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Then S D Burman, his mentor used his good offices to get Kishore Kumar to give plaback for Raj Kapoor in “Pyaar” (1950). But from that time onwards, Kishore Kumar sang for himself or for Dev Anand, in case it was a Dev Anand movie with S D Burman’s music direction. I can think of one more exception during 1950s though where Kishore Kumar sang for someone other than himself or Dev Anand. It was the iconic song Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai(Pahli taarikh) (1954) which was picturised on Raja Nene.
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When I met Sudhir Jee a few days ago, one of the things that we discussed was the fact that there are so many film personalities that we have discussed and many more that are not yet covered and not yet discussed. How we would like to have a comprehensive list of all the anniversaries of all the film personalities, so that we could discuss their songs on their anniversaries. Once we have our list of anniversary dates ready, we may have our hands full, what with every date of the year most likely having a few anniversaries.
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Jab se tujhe jaan gayee
Posted on: July 28, 2012
“Bluffmaster” (1963) was produced by Subhash Desai and directed by Manmohan Desai. It had Shammi Kapoor, Saira Bano, Lalita Pawar, Niranjan Sharma, Pran, Mohan Choti, Laxmi Chhaya, TunTun, Rashid Khan, Shyam Lal, Charlie Walker, Jugal Kishore, Anand Joshi, Santhosh Kumar etc in it.
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Wo bijli hain ham shola
Posted on: July 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 14th of July is the birth anniversary of Roshan saab, one of my favorite music composers of yesteryear.
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“Nirdosh” (1973) was a Navsampati Productions movie. It was produced by Nariman H Baria and A Khaliq and directed by S M Sagar. The movie had Yogita Bali, Vinod Mehra, Padma Khanna, Sujit Kumar, Ifthekar, Junior Mehmood, Mohan Choti, Nazneen, Mumtaz Begum, Lalita Kumari, C.S.Dubey (Chandrashekhar Dubey),Murad, Brahmachari, Yunus Parvez, Shivraj, etc in it.
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