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Zulfon ko hataa le chehre se
Posted on: June 25, 2011
I just realised two facts. One fact is that the hair of leading ladies in Hindi movies play an important part in Hindi movies, especially in songs. when the Hero needs to sing a song in praise of her, what are the things about her that he can mention? He will sing about her face- likening it to Chaand(Moon), he will sing about her eyes, likening them to deep lakes. Another important body part that find much mention in the paens that hero sings for the lady are her hairs, which are called “zulf” in Hindi song parlance and they are often likened to Ghata (viz black rain bearing clouds). Heroine being compared to moon,lakes, cloud ! Hindi movie lyricists must have paid enough attention in their geography classes, it would seem to me, at least when these geographical topics were being discussed.
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Maine chaand dekhaa hai
Posted on: June 23, 2011
Most movies that are released come to the notice of movie going public, whether or not they actually go to the movie halls to watch these movies.
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Teri mehfil mein aaye hain
Posted on: June 17, 2011
I have so far discussed 54 out of around 100 songs that Sajjad Hussain composed for Hindi movies. The remaining songs are highly elusive and I am always on the lookout for them.
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Ek dukhiyaari apne piyaa ko
Posted on: June 16, 2011
“Apsara” (1961) is a forgotten movie which had Pradeep Kumar, Padmini etc in it. This movie had some nice songs in it that unfortunately sank with the movie.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Even as I type out this write-up, my fingers are trembling. And I am not exaggerating! I have written over 50 write-ups for this blog so far and yet I find myself struggling to put down my thoughts coherently for this particular piece. It is not as if I have writer’s block (which I may also well have) ; it is just that the occasion seems to have got the better of me. I find myself totally inadequate to the occasion, and although I’ve just started, I have this nasty foreboding that I am going to make a mess of this, I am going to end up “choking”. I am suddenly beginning to empathise and sympathise with the South African cricket team. 😀
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“Aakhri Sajdaa” (1977) is a forgotten low budget movie that escaped public attention. The reason why I and like minded music lovers are interested in this movie is for a very important reason. It is the last movie of Sajjad Hussain as a music director. And that is a big reason for music lovers to be interested in this movie, or to be more precise, in the songs of this movie.
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Popular wisdom about Sajjad Hussain is that he last composed for a Hindi movie in 1963. Fortunately, that is not the case. He, despite his troubles with movie makers continued to work till late 1970s. his last movie as a music director was in 1977 and this movie was “Aakhri Sajdaa” (1977). The star cast for this movie includes Maya Sinha, Tabrez, Murad, Veena, Jagdeep, Helen, Husn Banu etc.
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Lo kaamna pooran huyi hai
Posted on: April 20, 2011
I have discussed a couple of songs from “Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan” (1959) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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“Oonchi Haweli” (1955) is an obscure movie by now. Few information seems to be available about this movie except that this movie had actors like Karan Dewan,,Nirupa Roy,Bhagwan,Lalita Pawar, B M Vyas etc in it. This movie was produced by Sharad Production and it was directed by Dhirubai Desai.
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