Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
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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Man re tu hi bataa kyaa gaaun
Posted on: November 4, 2011
There are occasions when a couple may have strained relations and they may not be on talking terms with each other. But they are required to put up a facade of normalcy in front of their acquaintances. This song is a lovely picturisation of that nature. It is a get together party and the friends of Rajendra Kumar want Jamuna to sing a song. Rajendra Kumar, who otherwise would not speak to her, is contrained to request her to sing a song. Jamuna, with a heavy heart, is forced to sing this song.
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The comically titled “Pilpili Saahab”(1954) is a rare and obscure movie with equally rare and obscure songs in it. The movie was a Kwatra Films production and it was directed by H S Kwatra. The movie had actors like Sunder, Pran, Mehmood, Agha, Shyama, Lalita, Mumtaz, Rajan Kapoor etc in it.
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Mohabbat tark ki maine
Posted on: October 25, 2011
Today (25th october) is the death anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi. Sahir Ludhainvi, a stormy petrel among Hindi movie lyricists, stirred quite a few hornets’ nests’ during his time, which are well documented and which have been discussed in this blog too from time to time.
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