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Kaisa hai mere dil tu khilaadi
Posted on: April 27, 2012
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From the details furnished by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our inhouse walking encyclopaedia, it was seen that “Gambler” (1970) had five songs and as many as four songs from the movie had already been discussed.
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Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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Sochne ko laakh baaten soche insaan
Posted on: April 4, 2012
Philosophical songs is a genre of songs that are calming to the nerves and they help us see things in perspective and make us realise that we are mere specks in the grand scheme of things and so one should not entertain delusions of grandeur about oneself. We are mere puppets and someone far more omnipotent is running the show.
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Manzil to hai badi door
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Bhai Sahab”(1954) was a Pancholi Art Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave and the star cast included C H Atma, Smriti Biswas, Purnima,Ratan Kumar, Jagdeep etc.
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“Sansaar” (1951) was a Gemini Pictures Production. This movie was a remake of their own Tamil and Telugu movies, both called “Samsaaram”. “Sansaar”(1951) was directed by S S Vasan and the starcast consisted of Ishwarlal, M. K. Radha, Vanaja, Mohana, Agha, Meera, J. S. Kashyap, Anil Kumar, Kalla, Ratnappa, Pushpavalli, Swaraj, David Abraham. From the cast, it is seen that most characters of the original South Indian language movie were used in the Hindi version too.
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Umariya bin khewak ki naiyya
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Majhli Didi” (1967) was a movie based on the backdrop of Bengal. As a result, rivers and boats and majhis played important roles in this movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ravi Shanker Sharma departed from the mortal world last evening (7th March, 2012). Better known as simply Ravi, to the masses and the audiences of Hindi films, Ravi was 86 years, having just celebrated that milestone 5 days ago.
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Jaan sakey to jaan
Posted on: March 5, 2012
During 1950s and 1960s, there used to be quite a few movies with the word “ustaad” in them. This blog have had songs from movies viz “Do Ustaad” (1959), “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963), “Ustaad 420” (1963), “Ham Sab Ustaad Hain” (1965),”Sab Ka Ustaad” (1967) etc but the movie with the defining word in them, viz “Ustaad” was not among them.
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Chhod musaafir maaya nagar
Posted on: March 5, 2012
I have mentioned it in the past that I did not like “old” songs when I was young. Those days (1970s), anything more than five years old was old for me. Today, I love listening to songs that are fifty, sixty and sometimes even seventy years old. Things have changed. I would like to believe that I have “matured”. Of course, I will not say that I was wrong as a kid.
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Tu dhoondhta hai jisko
Posted on: March 4, 2012
“Yatrik” (1952) was a New Theatre (Calcutta) production. It was directed by Kartik Chatterji. The movie had Vasant Chaudhary, Arundhati Mukherjee, Abhi Bhattacharjee etc in it.
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