Archive for the ‘philosophical song’ Category
O praani kyaa soche kya hoye
Posted on: January 14, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #11
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The year is 1946, and the song “Dil Jalta Hai. . .” from ‘Pehli Nazar’ (1945, MD – Anil Biswas) is now well known. The staying power and popularity of this song can be judged from the fact that over the years, many people started to consider this song as his debut song, completely forgetting his other songs from 1941 to 1944. With this success behind him, Mukesh was now a more sought after singer, as is evident from the dramatic increase in his singing assignments in 1946.
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“Door Ka Raahi” (1971) was produced and directed by Kishore Kumar. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Tanuja, Padma Khanna, Samir Kumar, Gautam Mukherji, Iftekhar, Amit Kumar, Ganga, Abhi Bhattacharya, Bambi, Hiralal, Asit Sen, Yograj, Keshto Mukherjee, Deepa etc in it.
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Tera Raam tere mann mein hai
Posted on: December 15, 2012
“Chandrasena” (1959) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Babubhai Mistry. The movie had Mahipal, Girija, Paul Sharma, B. M. Vyas, Krishna Kumari, etc in it.
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Gagan ye samjhe chaand sukhi hai
Posted on: December 2, 2012
“Saawan Ko Aane Do” (1979) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Kanak Mishra. The movie had Arun Govil, Zarina Wahab, Amrish Puri, Rita Bhaduri etc in it.
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Kachhu samajh nahin aaye
Posted on: November 28, 2012
“Aasmaan” (1952) was produced and directed by Dalsukh M Pancholi. The movie had Nasir Khan, Shyama, Veera, Badri Prasad,Anwar, David Abraham, Asha Parekh, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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“Surang” (1953) was a Rajkamal Production. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Ulhas, Shashikala, Vinod Kumar, K. Date, Vikas, Sheila Ramani, Chandrashekhar, Joginder etc in it.
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Na apna thha jo kal guzra
Posted on: September 28, 2012
“Jeevan Rekha” (1974), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog, is one of the more obscure movies. Not much is known about this movie. It was produced by Parshuram J Devnani and directed by N Bhatt. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Ajit, Farida Jalal, K. N. Singh, Pran, Farida Jalal, Tabrez, Jalal Agha, Keshto Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Manmohan etc in it.
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Different people like different kinds of songs. When I was young, I loved to listen to light hearted and playful songs especially those sung by Kishore Kumar. Now I find that my taste has become more diversified. 🙂 I now like songs of lots of genre.
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Haan aawaaraa hoon
Posted on: September 20, 2012
We in this blog typically have two main causes of celebrations- one is blog century post and other is artist century post. We have so far seen 66 blog centuries. As many as 51 artists have completed their centuries (one of them in two different categories, viz as a singer and as a music director).
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