Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
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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“Meenar” (1954) is a movie which had Bharat Bhushan, Beena Roy, Pran, Sheila Ramani, Pratima Devi etc in its star cast. This movie has been all but forgotten by now.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I just cannot believe that a song of 40s which I had completely forgotten over four decades, suddenly started rolling in my mind last month when a group of a political party workers came to my house to canvass for their party candidate from my area for the municipal election last month. The song was‘nagari meri kab tak yuhin barbaad rahegi’ from MAN KI JEET (1944).
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The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949) was a Tajmahal pictures presentation. This movie was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names viz. Shyam, Naseem Bano,Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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“Leela” (1947) is an obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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“Shabaab” (1954) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Badri Prasad, Shyam Kumar, Yashodhara Katju, Wasti etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Welcome all to the 5500th song on this blog. It seems like just a few days ago, that we had celebrated the 5000th milestone. And now, just a little more than three months later, we are already at the 5500 mark today. The journey of this musical bandwagon continues along merrily, and every day there is a treat of music that Atul ji is providing to all aficionados of old Hindi film music. But more than just good music and joy of listening, through this blog Atul ji is doing a yeoman’s service to the film industry, to the countless fans, and to this art form itself.
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“Deedaar” (1951) was a Filmkaar Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nimmi, Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Yakub, Tabassum etc in it.
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Yahaan ab kyaa rehnaa
Posted on: February 21, 2012
Om Prakash Chhibber, known only by his first name, viz Om Prakash was born on 19 december 1919 and he died on 21 february 1998. In his four decades long career, he worked in some 307 movies.
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