Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Ye hawaayen sanam ye nazaare
Posted on: June 13, 2013
“Passing Show” (1956), an obscure B grade movie, was directed by Master Bhagwan for Mukul Pictures. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Shakeela, Daljeet, Purnima etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the 4th song in the series “Lata with uncommon singers “.
In today’s song Lata is singing with Ashalata Biswas.
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Jiya doley ho jiya doley
Posted on: June 11, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the third song in the series ” Lata with uncommon singers”. Here Lata is with Shaukat Hyderi or Nashad. Yes, he is the same Nashad, Music Director, who gave several memorable songs in the 50s and 60s like ‘Tasveer banata hoon’ and ‘ O teer chalaanewaale’-both from Talat and ‘ Badi mushkil se dil ki’ by Shamshad Begum.
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Tauba tauba tauba ye adaayen
Posted on: June 10, 2013
“Naya Paisa” (1958) was a Super Pictures production. It was directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Johnny Walker, Chand Usmani, Krishna Kumari, Shammi, Tuntun etc in it.
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Paas balam chori chori aa
Posted on: June 10, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from LAJAWAB-1950. Anil Biswas was the Music Director. By 1950, he had been in the Hindi film industry for about 15 years. He was hailed as the original composer and also the senior most one to be called “Bhishma Pitamah” of the HFM. He had attained fame, name, money, love and position in the industry, but one thing always bothered him and that was that, he had not been able to compose any song for Saigal or Noorjehan.
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Ye kis manzil pe le aayi
Posted on: June 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hindi film industry is known for making most of the artists (actors, directors, music directors, singers, lyricists etc.) struggle for years before they finally reap the rewards of success in their careers. There are some who continued to struggle in the film industry for long without attaining much success in their pursuits. For examples, playback singers like Sudha Malhotra and Minoo Purshottam, music directors like C Arjun and G S Kohli and lyricists like Asad Bhopali and Naqsh Layalpuri did not attain the success in their filmy careers which they deserved. In this list, Asad Bhopali seems to be the ‘leader’ among strugglers.
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Nahin khaane ka thhikaana
Posted on: June 7, 2013
“Commander” (1959) was an obscure movie produced by M Usman Nadiadwala under the banner of Meher movies. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor and it had Ranjan, Nigar Sultana, Kumkum, Helen, Kamal Kapoor, Chaman Puri, Maruti Rao, Tiwari, Ram Mohan, Manjeet, Kailash Kumari, Rana, Saroj, Krupal, Gaurang, Ramesh Tiwari etc in it.
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Ye do aankhen tujhe deekhe hain
Posted on: June 5, 2013
“Sandesh” (1952) was a Sandesh pictures Production. It was directed by Bal Gajbar. The movie had Kumud, Umesh Sharma, Meenaxi, Arvind, Nana Palsikar, Vikas, Durga Khote, Lalita Pawar etc in it.
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Sajaniya kit bhaage
Posted on: June 4, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the fourth song from this film featuring in the blog. Actually, this will be the fourth and last Rafi song in the film.
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Din beet chaley din beet chaley
Posted on: June 4, 2013
“Swayamsiddha” (1949) was an Indian National Art Pictures production. It was directed by Shyam Das. The movie had Samar Roy, Shanta Apte, Molina, Hiralal, Priti Majumdar, Bhupendra Kapoor, Gitashree, Amarnath, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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