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While looking for Jaidev compositions to be posted today (6th january) on his death anniversary, I came across gems after gems that I heard in my formative days without having any inkling that they were composed by Jaidev. These are songs that tempted me to hold on to them for some other special occasions. But if I hold on to all his compositions for some future occasion then I will have to stop discussing Jaidev compositions, such is the quality of all the songs that I am coming across.
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Phool sa chehra chaand si rangat
Posted on: January 4, 2012
4th january is the birthday of Pradeep Kumar, a leading actor of 1950s and 1960s, who later began to play character roles in 1970s. That way, he was the male equivalent and contemporary of Nirupa Roy with whom he shares his date of birth.
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Yahaan koi nahin tera mere siwaa
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a Chitralaya Pictures production. The movie was directed by C V Sridhar. The star cast of the movie included names like Raj kumar, Rajendra kumar, Meena Kumari, Baby Padmini, Krishna kumari, Taai Naagesh, Krishna Kumari, Achala Sachdev, Shubha Khote, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Randhir, Sundar, Shantini, Ram Mohan, Keshav Rana etc.
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“Sheroo” (1957) is an S P Productions movie. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Anoop Kumar, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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BA MA PhD ye diplomaay ye degree
Posted on: January 2, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Trying to think of all other songs on the Hindi screen that contain the names of the educational degrees and qualifications. How far back do you think this trend goes ? Well, all the way back to 1936, to the time of Saigal Saab. The film ‘Krorepati (The Millionaire)’ has a duet by Saigal Saab and Pahadi Sanyal –‘Jo Naukri Dilaa De, BA Dilaane Waale’ . Then the next one that I can locate is ‘Hum Se Nain Milaanaa BA Pass Kar Ke’ , a Madan Mohan / Raja Mehndi Ali Khan creation sung by Mukesh and Shamshad Begum in 1950. Then in 1954, the Kishore, Usha Kiran film ‘Adhikaar’ has a song ‘BA MA PhD’ created by Prem Dhawan and Avinash Vyas, and sung by Asha Bhosle. Then fast forward to 1971 and the path-breaking film by Gulzar, ‘Mere Apne’. And the song – ‘Haal Chaal Thheek Thhaak Hai’. The second line of the mukhdaa of this song goes like ‘BA Kiyaa Hai, MA Kiyaa; Lagtaa Hai Wo Bhi Aiwen Kiyaa Hai’.
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“Raam Aur Shyaam” (1967) was a Vijaya International production. It was directed by Chanakya. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Mumtaz, Nirupa Roy, Kanhaiyalal, Nazir Hussain, Sajjan, Mukri, Amar, Leela Misra, Zebunissa, Farida, Pran etc in it.
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Todo todo todo dil ke taar
Posted on: December 29, 2011
“Amar Raj” (1946) is an obscure movie by now and little is known about this movie.
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“Nawaab Sahib” (1978) is an obscure movie, despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this movie. This movie was clearly a B grade movie and it had small time non selling actors in it.
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So jaa baaba mere so jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
Lullabies are a much loved category of songs in Hindi movies. Most lullabies are sung by female singers as one would expect. But there are exceptions where male singers too have sung lullabies.
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