Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. If one looks at the year, one can see that this movie was released in the same year when Indians passed “Quit India” resolution on their British rulers. Yes, this movie is that old and not much is known about this movie. What is known is that this movie had actors like This movie had actors like Jagdish Sethi, Jeewan, Amirbai Karnataki, Baby Suraiyya, Gulab, Kaushalya, Prem Adib, Ratnamala, Shakir, Umakant etc.
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Kismat jo pilaaye hamko
Posted on: April 14, 2012
“Ladka Ladki” (1966) was a Bright Films Production. It was directed by Som Haksar. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Sujit Kumar, Laxmi Chhaya, I.S.Johar, Bhagwan,Raj Mehra, Tuntun, Randhir, Leela Misra, Ravikant, Johnny Whisky, Kesri, Krishna Duggal, Gulshan Baawra, Jagadish Bhalla, Aasi, Jerry, Abubakar, Nazir Kashmiri, Sham Laal, Deen Dayaal etc.
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Ae dard e jigar fariyaad na kar
Posted on: April 11, 2012
I became aware of the movie when farmaish for a song of this movie was given by a reader some two years back. The reader had mentioned the movie as “Banu” which was a typo and as a result my search was delayed. Finally I located the song. Being able to home in on this elusive song gave me tremendous satisfaction. That song was the first song from this movie to be posted in this blog. Subsequently I have discussed two more songs from this movie.
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Mitwa mitwa
Posted on: April 10, 2012
I have often mentioned it that lyrics are the soul of songs. One of the main reasons why the songs of the golden era went on to become timeless classics was that great importance was given to lyrics of the songs. There have been instances when the music directors patiently waited for the lyricist to come up with the lyrics of the song.
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Manwa kaahe phir tadpaaye
Posted on: April 4, 2012
“Waapas” (1943) is a very old movie, nearly seven decades old in fact. Not too many details are known about this movie. And it does not help matters when conflicting information is available about this movie.
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“Hum Log”(1951) was a Ranjit Film Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Cuckoo, Master Ratan,Shyama, Anwar Hussein, Sajjan, Kanhaiyalal, Manmohan Krishna, Durrani, Rashid Khan, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Ye kyaa zindagi hai
Posted on: March 31, 2012
This article is written by Pradeep Raghunathan, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
There is one day of the year that most of us Indian’s are not very happy about, and that date is today, 31st March, when we need to make sure we have filed our tax returns and submitted it. For some reason, you find every one in India very busy during the month of March, as they are busy collecting documents and filing their taxes. Coming to think of it, even the IPL waits for this March madness to complete before it starts on the 4th of Apr :).
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Kaisa ujda chaman khushi ka
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A very remarkable song indeed. Not just for the words and music, but the way the music is arranged, and the manner in which it has been rendered. The special feature of remark-ability can either be told, or can be perceived by listening to the song itself. Maybe some of the readers would pause reading this write up, listen to the song and then come back to read the rest of it. And possibly, some readers can recognize what is special about this song.
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