Archive for the ‘Radio Song’ Category
Patthar se sheesha takraa ke
Posted on: November 19, 2012
“Saawan Ko Aane do” (1979) was a Rajshree Production movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Kanak Mishra. The movie had Arun Govil, Zarina Wahab, Rita Bhaduri, Amrish Puri etc in it.
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Ham gham se na haarenge
Posted on: November 15, 2012
“Mamta” (1977) was an Anubhav Films Production. It was directed by Phani Majumdar. The movie had Vidya sinha, Parikshit Sahni, Vandana, Sajjan, Maruti, S.N.Tripathi, Aruna Irani, Shivaraj, Raj Kumar(the lesser known one ?), K.N.Singh etc in it.
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“Chhoti Si Mulaaqaat” (1967) was produced under the banner of ‘Our Movies’. The movie was produced by Uttam Kumar and directed by Alo Sircar. The movie had Uttam Kumar, Vyjayanti Mala, Tarun Bose, Shashikala, Rajendra Nath, Pratima Devi, Veena etc in it.
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“Anurodh” (1977) is a movie that paired erstwhile superstar Rajesh Khanna with Simple Kapadia, his sister in law. The movie did not do as well as was expected of this movie. But what lovely songs this movie had ! In fact, this movie is remembered today mainly for its songs.
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Sajaayaa na karo phool baalon pe
Posted on: November 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this write up, I initiate a series of posts (at least ten, may be some more) to cover some very wonderful gems, and yet, very obscure and rarely heard songs of Mukesh. Mukesh, a voice filled with magic, a poignant and a simple, unpretentious sound. A voice that attracts with its sweet mellifluous tones. A voice that remains a unique rendition to date. Never up there is the top brackets like Rafi Saab or Kishore Da. And yet, the voice that has left an indelible mark on the Hindi film music. And also bequeathed scores of veritable gems for the listening pleasure of music lovers.
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Saanwre saanwre
Posted on: August 3, 2011
This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and they do not have much appreciation of their rich legacy, so showing callous disregard to such great works of art will naturally follow.
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“Nayaa Kaanoon” (1965) was a movie starring an over the hill Bharat Bhushan with Vyjyanti Mala. This movie was a box office disasater.
As a result, the songs of this movie suffered. So much so that few people are aware of these songs. It is a pity because these songs are so nice to listen to, and they would have done well had the movie done better.
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Ye daaman ab na chhootegaa kabhi
Posted on: July 22, 2011
Most music directors have their own musical style and if one listens to the music of a song, one can often identify the music director.
But sometimes music directors may copy the musical style of other more established music directors. We have seen music directors copying the musical styles of O P Nayyar,Shankar Jaikishan etc in the past.
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Aaja meri duniyaa mein
Posted on: June 21, 2011
In olden days, most radio programmes used to be live programmes and appearing in radio programmes was considered a big deal. Many movie artists in fact cut their teeth working on radio in their earlier years.
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Ae dard zaraa dam le
Posted on: May 17, 2011
Now a days, electronic gizmos do not merit a second look. Every household now a days have itms like TV, computers, mobile phones etc.
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