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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Again, a long gap, which actually troubles me more than anything else. I am sure one of these days, Atul ji will add the following header to the top of one of my posts ; “This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a MOST-IRREGULAR-regular contributor to this blog.” 😀 😀
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Laayi hayaat aayee qazaa
Posted on: August 17, 2012
“Shabaab” (1954) was a Sadiq productions movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nutan, Shyam Asant Kumar, Wasti, Badri Prasad, Yashodra Katju etc in it.
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Bolo bolo kuchh to bolo
Posted on: August 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ was released in 1959, the only thing I remembered at that time about the movie was that it was a film in which Asha Parekh was introduced as a new heroine to pair with Shammi Kapoor. The film was a super hit and its songs became very popular. But little did I know at that time that the film’s songs were composed by a new music director called Usha Khanna. In fact, I carried a wrong impression for some time that O P Nayyar was the music director of this film. Even for her second film ‘ Hum Hindustani’ which was released in 1960, I thought that the music director was Dattaram, the music assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan. I carried these impressions as the music compositions of these two films were very close to the styles of O P Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan respectively. After about 4 decades when I revisited her songs, mostly of 60s and 70s, I felt that she had developed her own style of music for the songs of her later films.
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Apni baanhon se koi kaam to lo
Posted on: August 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This song is Hasrat Jaipuri’s 400th song in the blog
Today is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor, one of Hindi cinema’s most loved actors of all-time.
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Aji aisa mauka phir kahaan milega
Posted on: August 14, 2012
Though we have discussed lots and lots of songs picturised on Shammi Kapoor, there are still songs that have yet to make it to the blog. Today (14th august 2012) is the first death anniversary of Shammi Kapoor. This offers us an opportunity to pay our tribute to Shammi Kapoor by discussing a few songs picturised on him.
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Main tooti huyi ek naiyya hoon
Posted on: August 12, 2012
“Aadmi” (1968) was a S V Productions movie. It was directed by A Bhim Singh. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Simi Garewal, Sulochana, Ullhas, Mohan Choti, Agha etc in it.
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There have been two Hindi movies called “Shama” and there are many people including “experts” who get mixed up in this confusion. There movies were “Shama” (1946) and “Shama” (1961). The confusion is compounded by the fact that the music directors of these movies were Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad respectively and there are people who think that the two were the same person. In fact I once watched a podcast about old songs where the podcaster very knowledgeably told the audience that Ghulam Haider, who composed the music of “Shaheed” (1948) later composed the music of “Pakeezah” (1972).
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Hamne kya pyaar kiyaa
Posted on: August 8, 2012
“Naag Mohini”(1963) was a Dimple Films Production”. The movie was directed by Shantilal Soni. The movie had Mahipal, Vijaya Choudhary, Sunder, Rajan Haksar, Indira Bansal, Babloo etc in it.
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