Archive for the ‘Poignant Song’ Category
Today (19 september 2012) is Ganesh Chaturthi, a major Indian festival. Today Lord Ganesh’s birthday is celebrated. In Indian calender, Lord Ganesh’s festival comes first and the festivals involving other Gods come then follow during the year. In fact, “Sriganesh karna” has become a Hindi language idiom which means “to begin”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It was many years ago; as a child I saw the song “Dil Jalta Ha To Jalne De”(‘Pehli Nazar’, 1945) as one of the songs in a Chitrahaar program on Doordarshan. At that time, I had no idea about the actors present on the screen during this song. The image of Motilal that I would later remember and carry with me for a long time, would be the balding, and somewhat comical man from films like ‘Mr. Sampat’ (1952) and ‘Jaagte Raho’ (1956). And it was much later that I would become aware that the young man in this song, with a moustache and a head of full hair is none other than the same Motilal. However, on the first viewing of this song on TV, it was the charming face of the lady love, that enamored me, and the image of that open expression on her face, with expectation and waiting written on it, still remains with me as one the most endearing images of a lady actor on screen.
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Teri galiyon mein ham aaye
Posted on: September 5, 2012
Today (5 september) is Salil Chaudhary’s death anniversary. Salil Chaudhary was one Hindi movie music. Or it would be more appropriate to say that he was a pioneer of Indian movie music. He composed music in movies of as many as ten languages. Majority of these movies were in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam though.
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Mat ro maata laal tere bahutere
Posted on: August 15, 2012
“Bandini” (1963) was a movie based on pre independence days when Indian was still under British occupation. “Bandini” (1963) is the story of Nutan who is serving jail sentence in a jail. The jail also has a freedom fighter who is to be hanged. This song is sung by the freedom fighter as he is being led to the gallows.
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Phir aah dil se nikli
Posted on: August 3, 2012
- In: "Broken heart" song | Biography of artists | Biography of lyricist | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Pathos | Poignant Song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948 | Street singing | Yearwise breakup of songs | Zohrabai Ambalewaali solo | Zohrabai Ambalewaali song
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Today (3 august) is the birth anniversary of Shakeel Badayuni (3 august 1916- 20 april 1970). The combination of Shakeel Badayuni as a lyricist as Naushad as a music director was one of the most common and most successful lyricist-music director combinations of the golden era of Hindi movies. They worked together in as many as thirty movies.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2012
- In: Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Duet | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar-Lata duet | Lata song | lullaby | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Male lullaby | Multiple version song | Poignant Song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1974 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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It is said that making people laugh is serious business. Just because some people who make others laugh does not mean that they are not capable of being serious. On the contrary, such people are capable of being serious and sensitive too.
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Tum mujhse door chale jaanaa na
Posted on: July 21, 2012
“Ishq Par Zor Nahin” (1970) was a Twinkle Stars presentation. It was produced by Suresh Saigal and directed by Ramesh Saigal. The movie had Sadhana, Dharmendra, Biswajeet, Kamini Kaushal,Madhumati, Nadira,Randhir, Meena.T, Udayachandrika(south),Leela Mishra, Jagdeesh Raj, Abhi Bhattacharya, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Murga murgi pyaar se dekhen
Posted on: July 8, 2012
When ordinary people want to go down memory lane in their personal lives, they need to look for their old photo albums. With movie personalities with long successful careers, all they need to do is to watch their old movies. In some cases, where these film personalities began early, viz as child artists, they can relive their childhood by watching these movies.
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Aa jaa jaan e jaan
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne” (1964) was produced and directed by V Shantaram. This movie introduced Rajshree (daughter of V Shantaram) alongwith Jeetendra. The movie also had Surendra Bharati, Nana Palsikar, K. Date, C. H. Atma, Babloo etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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