Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Pardesi kyun yaad aata hai
Posted on: January 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
MAN KI JEET (1944) was produced and directed by W Z Ahmed under the banner of Shalimar Pictures owned by him. Shyam and Nina were in the lead roles. The story of the film was said to be based on Thomas Hardy’s novel ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles’. One of the most popular songs from this film nagri meri kab tak yoon hi barbaad rahegi has been discussed in this blog.
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Main albeli titli
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the decades of 30s and 40s, some of the female singers made it to Hindi films as actors thanks to their ability to sing well. It would appear that in those days, it was more of the singing ability than the acting skills which was the deciding factors for the film producers to pick up the female actors. Some of the prominent singing female actors of that period were Khursheed Bano, Noor Jehan, Kanan Bala, Shanta Apte, Suraiya, Amirbai Karnataki, Rajkumari etc.
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Kyaa jaadoo hai tere paas piyaa
Posted on: January 7, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The Voice of Mukesh #10
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The first five years of Mukesh’s career, from 1941 to 1945 were sketchy, and not very productive. The available records show that he sang 14 songs in six films during these five years. His singing did not capture much attention, and Mukesh was a discouraged man, contemplating to leave Bombay and return home to Delhi. But then in 1945, ‘Pehli Nazar’ happened, under the baton of Anil Biswas. And after the release of ‘Pehli Nazar’, Mukesh’s career was on the up and up.
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Aaj koi nahin apna
Posted on: January 6, 2013
“Agnipareeksha” (1981) was a B R Films Production movie. It was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Kamal Majumdar. The movie had Amol Palekar, Rameshwari, Parikshath Sahni, Veena, Utpal Dutt, Iftekar, Dr.Sri Raam Lagoo, S.N.Bannerjee, Nana Palsikar, Jagadish Raj, Dinesh Thakur, JankiDass, Prem Sagar, Dev Dutt, Sunil Dhawan, Master Danny, Amol Sen, Pravin Khanna, Maher, Dev Sharma, Sundar Taneja, Satya Banerjee, Heeraji, Navin Kumar, Gaikwad etc in it.
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Bhala kyun bhala kyun
Posted on: January 5, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The above song is from a film called PARAKH-1937, whose Music Director was B.S.HOOGAN.
When I first came across this name Hoogan, in the list of Hindi composers, my first reaction was, what is this foreigner doing in Hindi Films ?
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Well, yes, there is a film by the name ‘Great Show of India’. Released in 1958, it is a social drama from the banner of Chitra Bharati, Bombay. By some accounts, it appears to be a story built around a circus company. I request our more knowledgeable team members and readers to please add more information about this film. The film is directed by C M Trivedi and Chandrakant. The cast of actors includes Kamini Kaushal, Mahipal, Tiwari, Maruti, Kamal Kapoor, Mirza Musharraf, Moni Chatterjee, Kamal, Jugnu, Gamdiya, Bhujbal Singh, Reva Rakshit.
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Chinchpokli Chinchpokli
Posted on: December 29, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The name of SHABISTAN evokes the memories of a very handsome and jovial actor-SHYAM.
He died during the final scene shooting of this film while riding a horse. Actually, Shyam was an expert rider and the horse was also the same,usual one. Everything was the same but the Time had come for Shyam to go…
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“Nateeja” (1947) was a Bombay Talkies movie. It was directed by Najam Naqvi. The movie had Shamim Bano, Yakub, Jillo, Radhika, Maya Devi etc in it.
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Haaye re duniya
Posted on: December 27, 2012
“Zeenat” (1945) was produced by Sheth Shiraz Ali Hakim and Ramzanali S Lakhani and directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Karan Dewan, Yakub, Dixit, Majid, Himalaywala, Naseem Jr, Agha Salim Raza, Leela Mishra etc.
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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.
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Unknown composers Composer 10- Vasant Prabhu
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This is the 10th and the last article in the series of UNKNOWN COMPOSERS.
The whole idea was to emphasize the contribution made by these composers to the HFM and to bring to light their work so that they have their Day of Glory once more.
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