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Ae dil e naakaam
Posted on: October 22, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With Kundan Lal Saigal towering above every other male singing star and singer of his era, it was inevitable that many a new-comer tried to sing in the Saigal idiom in the 1940s. Mukesh got noticed sounding like Saigal in Dil jalta hai to jalne de in Pehli Nazar (1945); the self-confessed Saigal devotee Kishore Kumar sang Marne ki duaayen kyun maangoon in Ziddi (1948) and Jagmag-jagmag karta nikla chaand poonam ka pyaara in Ziddi (1949) in the Saigal style; C. H. Atma always sounded like Saigal.
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Ye mausam bheega bheega hai
Posted on: October 16, 2012
“Dharti” (1970) was a Chitralaya Production. It was produced and directed by Sridhar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Kumkum, Ajit, Balraj Sahni, Kamini Kaushal, Rajendra Nath, Sudesh Kumar, Pahadi Sanyal etc in it.
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Naao kaaghaz ki gehra hai paani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
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Shankar Jaikishan, the most dominant music directors during the golden era of Hindi movie music ruled the roost for two decades from 1949 to 1968 till R D Burman rose like a meteor and changed the rules of the game.
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Main hoon Mr John
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Naach Ghar” (1959) was a Kwality Pictures Production. It was directed by R S Tara. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Anoop Kumar, Kamala Laxman, Helen, Shobha Khote, Iftekhar, Gopi Krishna etc in it. Not much is known about this movie.
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While talking of a movie called “Dillagi”, The only movie of this name that I was aware of during my teenage days was “Dillagi” (1978), which was a Basu Chatterjee directed romantic comedy movie starring Dharmendra and Hema Malini.
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I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie. Despite discussing so many songs from this movie, not much was known about it. But now we know the detailed story of this movie.
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Jo ijaazat ho to ek baat kahoon
Posted on: October 10, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Whenever I come across the name of the film “Baat ek raat ki” the song ‘na tum hame jaano, na ham tumhen jaane’ is the song I remember. The Hemant Kumar version is posted in the blog. I have seen this song many times on ‘Chhaaya geet’.
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Sun sun sun o gulaabi kali
Posted on: October 10, 2012
The music of “Saawan Bhaadon” (1970) was instantly lapped up by aam janta as soon as the songs of this movie became available. The energy and the verve with which these songs were sung made them extremely popular with music lovers, especially the least sophisticated among them like for instance kids in the under 10 years age category. 🙂
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Sanam apni palkon pe tujh ko
Posted on: October 9, 2012
“Pooja Ke Phool” (1964) was an A V M Production movie. It was directed by A Bhim Singh. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nimmi, Mala Sinha, Dharmendra, Sandhya Roy, Nana Palsikar, Mohan Choti, Shivraj, Mukri, Sulochana Chatterji, Nimmi, Leela Chitnis, Pran etc in it.
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