Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
“Shikaari” (1946) is a movie which had Ashok Kumar, Paro, Veera, Ram Shukul, Leela Mishra etc in it. This song was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director and this movie had some nice songs in it.
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Noorjahaan acted in 69 Hindi talkies and sang 127 Hindi movie songs according to wikipedia.This blog has 20 songs sung by her, so we already have about 16 % of all songs that she sang in Hindi movies.
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During the period from 1940s to 1960s, we often had titles of Hindi movies based on Railways. Thus we had movies titled “Station Master” (1942), ” Rail Ka Dibba” (1953), “Railway Platform” (1955) , “The Train” (1970) etc. Much later in 1980s, we had a few more Railway based titles, viz “The Burning Train” (1980) and “Coolie” (1983).
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Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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All the Sajjad Hussain songs discussed in this blog are from movies that were released. But Sajjad Hussain also composed a few songs for movies that were shelved.
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There have been several movies titled “Milan”. Movies of this title were released in 1946, 1958 and 1967. This blog has songs from all three movies.
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“Ram Rajya” (1943) as the name suggests was a religious mythological movie based on Ramayana. It was directed by Vijay Bhatt. Prem Adib played Ram and Shobana Samarth played the role of Seeta in this movie.
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Jab dard nahin thhaa seene mein
Posted on: November 7, 2011
I have often opined that people who can be the most playful when happy can also be the most mournful when sad. Kishore Kumar is quite an interesting study in contrast that way. He is mainly known for his happy go lucky genre of songs and acting, but when it came to producing movies, most of his movies, except “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi” (1958) were all serious movies. Likewise, when one makes a list of the most memorable songs sung by Kishore Kumar, lots and lots of serious/sad songs are bound to figure in that list. In fact, Kishore Kumar has sung more sad/serios songs than is normally believed.
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“Pyaar Ki Baazi” (1967) is a by now forgotten movie. This B grade movie was a Salim Productions movie. It was directed by S. J. Keshwani and A. K. Chalukya. The movie had Vijaya Choudhary, Jagdeep, Anant Kumar, Paro, Anuradha etc in it.
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Sajjad Hussain, described as the only original music director of Hindi movie had a chequered career and during his three decades long career he only worked in 17 movies and composed about 100 songs. I would dearly love to discuss all the songs that Sajjad Hussain composed. I have so far discussed as many as 66 of his compositions.
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