Archive for the ‘Party song’ Category
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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Dil thhaam chaley ham aaj kidhar
Posted on: April 8, 2012
“Love in Simla” (1960) was Joy Mukherji’s home production and it was the debut movie for Joy Mukherji as well as Sadhana. And what a smashing debut it was for both !
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Kya rangeen mehfil hai dildaaram
Posted on: March 25, 2012
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) was a Kay Production movie. It was directed by A R Kardar. Star cast of the movie included Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Shyama, Johnny Walker, Murad, Pran, Rehman, Rani, Sajjan, Sapru, Shah Agha etc.
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“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
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Ye khushi ka samaa
Posted on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Talat Mehmood ( 24-02-1924 – 09-05-1998) and the song ‘ tasveer teri dil mera behalaa naa sakegi’ are synonymous. I was under the impression that this song was from a film. But after getting hold of a 78 rpm record ( N.16767) of this song in early 70s, I realised that it was a non-filmy song. I came to know much later that this was one of the top selling gramophone records issued in early 40s and this song brought Talat Mehmood to the limelight as a singer in Hindi film industry.
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) was a movie which was produced by Films Friends and directed by K A Abbas. Starcast of the movie consisted of names viz. Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Murad, Madhvi, Imtiaz, Nadira, Mukri, Helen, David Abraham, etc.
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Ye saal ki aakhhri raat hai
Posted on: December 31, 2011
There are songs for various occasions, like festivals, and also for certain days, viz the first day of the month, but I was not aware that there was a Hindi movie song for the last day of the year too.
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Tu pea aur jee
Posted on: December 4, 2011
“Des Pardes” (1978) was a movie on the theme of NRIs including illegal immigrants. This movie introduced Tina Munim to Hindi movies.This was the first Dev Anand movie that I watched during its initial release.
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Ek ladki se mujhe preet hai
Posted on: November 30, 2011
A few songs from “Suhaag Sindoor” (1961) have been discussed in this blog. The movie was no great shakes and the songs of this movie have also been forgotten, but the songs are decent songs to listen to.
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