Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Ajee dil ho qaaboo mein to
Posted on: May 1, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
On the eve of my retirement from the service in 2006, I had started buying VCDs/DVDs of many classic Hindi films mostly of 40s and 50s to watch them as a part of my post retirement activities. While I have watched most of them, there were still a few VCDs which were lying intact without even breaking the plastic wraps. One of such VCDs was of the film ‘Village Girl’ (1945). What caught my attention was not the intact plastic cover but a boldly printed statement on the top of the VCD cover in Hindi which in English meant ‘Mohammed Rafi’s first song – ajee dil ho qaaboo mein to dildaar ki aisee taisee’. Until now I was under the impression that Mohammed Rafi’s first debut Hindi film as a playback singer was ‘Pahle Aap’ (1944). I decided to first watch the film.
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Jiya beimaan
Posted on: April 30, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #16
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This delightful and endearing sound of a heart that is finding love for the first time, took me by surprise. And the song seems to be really rare, in that I am not able to locate any published version online so far.
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Beautiful baby of Broadway
Posted on: April 28, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. With this, the blog reaches the figure of 8000 songs.
Chris Gayle’s recent record breaking feat in the 20/20 match at Bangalore, nowhere near compares with Atul ji’s performance on this blog. 😀 😀
I would challenge Chris Gayle to continue scoring this way, even for just one more match. Oh, I am so confident that he will not be able to repeat his performance. Not very soon, and neither so convincingly. But on our blog, the centuries being posted by Atul ji are remarkable – consistent, and incessant in their regularity. Just two weeks, give or take a day, and there we are, another century notched up on the board.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
NAYI KAHAANI (1943) was produced under the banner of Prabhat Film Company and directed by D D Kashyap. The star cast included Jairaj, Miss Ross, B Nadrekar, Shalini, Paresh Banerjee, Master Balakram etc. I had not heard of Miss Rose as an actress. A search on the website did not reveal much information about her except some basic information here. She was born as Rose Masbiah in Calcutta (Kolkatta) in a Jewish family. Her filmography indicates that she started working for Madan Theatres in Calcutta starting with the film ‘Hindustan’ (1932). Sometime around 1938, she shifted to Bombay (Mumbai) and joined Sagar Movietone. After the closure of Sagar Movietone, she seems to have become a freelance actor doing roles in films produced under the banners of Ranjit Movietone, National Studios and other film production banners in Bombay/Poona. During her career, she acted in 24 films. ‘Daasi Yaa Maan’ (1946) was her last film. She was a good singer and in a few films, she sang her own songs.
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Aa chhua chhoo chhoo
Posted on: April 27, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most readers of this Blog know Mr. Raja ji Swaminathan, as a very knowledgeable well wisher of this Blog and as a Blogger himself. His pioneering work of subtitling films is the most praiseworthy.
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“Veena” (1948) was a Jagt Pictures Production. This movie had Rehman, Hemavati, Veera, Sulochana Chatterji, Leela Misra, Yakub, Girdhari etc in it.
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When I came to know that Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919- 23 april 2013) was no more, I decided to discuss some rare songs sung by her. Accordingly, I some rare songs sung by Shamshad Begam were discussed yesterday (24 april 2013). Those songs were rare, but their links were still available. It was only in one case that the link available contained incompele song and so I uploaded a complete version of the song to enable me to discuss that.
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Shamshad Begam (14 april 1919 – 23 april 2013) left for her heavenly abode at the night of 23 april 2013. We in this blog discussed some rare Shamshad Begam songs as our tributes to her yesterday.
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O maina mastaani o pinjre ki raani
Posted on: April 25, 2013
“Jungle Princess” (1942) was a Wadia Movietone Presentation. It had Nadia playing a female version of Tarzan who gets raised among lions. The movie also had John Cawas, Hari Shivdasani, S K Hasan, Radharani, Sardar Mansoor, Mithhu Miyaan, Baby Madhuri etc in it.
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Baansuriya haay toot gayi man ki
Posted on: April 24, 2013
“Dekho Ji” (1947) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information about this movie is available on line.
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