Archive for the ‘Pathos’ Category
Throughout the world, there have been tragic love stories that are simply known by the name of the lovers- viz Romeo Juliet, Laila Majnu etc. In Punjab, there have been not one or two, four four such love stories. The most well known of them is “Sohni Mahiwal”. The second most well known must be “Mirza Sahiban”.
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Lut gayi ummeedon ki duniyaa
Posted on: March 1, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is a forgotten movie which starred Rehman, Geeta Bali and a dog. Like the movie, its songs too are forgotten.
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When I was growing up as a kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I noticed that old movie makers tended to give their movies the same title as the titles of new movies. 🙂 When radio announcer announced songs from “Andaaz”, “Aankhen”,”Aarzoo”,”Adaalat”, “Parwarish” etc, I expected to listen to songs from the newer movies of 1960s and 1970s and I was very upset when the songs played were from old movies of 1940s and 1950s, which were boring by my definition.
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Chaley ranz dekar
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Here is a song that I had never heard before. Of course there is nothing new in that. There are so many songs that I have never heard before.
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Mukesh was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) in late 1930s by Motilal (a distant relative) who had seen him singing a song at Motilal’s sister’s wedding. While at Bombay, Mukesh got the opportunity to act and sing in a movie called “Nirdosh” (1941). This movie also had Nalini Jaiwant.It is interesting to note that Mukesh first acted in movies in 1940s, whereas his grandson (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is acting in movies more than six decades later. Read the rest of this entry »
Though I am aware of most songs from “Mother India” (1957), I was just not aware about this song from the movie. In fact, I was not aware that Manna Dey had sung a song in this movie.
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Ye kaisi deewaar hai duniyaa
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Here is a mourning song from “Batwaaraa” (1961). No one had died. It is the age old relations that have are getting severed though. The two brothers, who lived under the same roof, now want to partition the home as they cannot see eye to eye with each other. So a wall is being erected right in front of the courtyard to partition the house into two.
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“Husn Ka Chor”(1953) was a Wadia movietone movie, starring Mahipal and Usha Kiran. The movie as well as its music have become too obscure to find with time.
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I had heard of the movie called “Bilwamangal” (1954) even in my younger days, because I had read about this movie in magazines. That is all I knew about this movie till now.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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