Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Kiye ja pyaar kiye ja pyaar
Posted on: January 20, 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 #12
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After being the relative wilderness of unfamiliar artists from 1941 to 1944, Mukesh’s career took an upwards turn in 1945 with the release of ‘Pehli Nazar’. And 1946 turned out to be the best years thus far for him. In this year, Mukesh got singing assignments with five films. He sang for music director MA Mukhtar in the film ‘Chehraa’ – one solo and one duet with
Shamshad Begum. Both these songs have been discussed here on this blog recently, He sang a duet with Beenapani Mukherjee for the film ‘Druban’. There is a little uncertainty about the music director for this film (more about that later). Then, under the baton of Hansraj Behl, he rendered a wonderful duet with Sushila Rani for the film ‘Gwaalan’ –
Lagat Najar Tori Chalaiyya morey gore badan ko. This song also already appears on this blog. Then for the film ‘Raajputaani’, he sang a solo and a duet, under the music direction of Bulo C Rani. And lastly, he sang another duet song for music director Hanuman Prasad in the film ‘Raseeli’. Going up to seven songs in one year was a whole lot better than an average of two or three songs per year for the prior five years (1941-45).
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“Shri Naqad Narayan” (1955) was a Kamdhenu Films Production. It was directed by I S Johar. The movie had Motilal, Meena, Majnu, Leela Misra, Naaz, Murad, Om Prakash, Badri Prasad etc in it.
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Ae dil bata kisko karoon pyaar
Posted on: January 18, 2013
This blog has 78 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain and that leaves about 20 more Sajjad Hussain songs that are yet to be covered.
These remaining songs are rare songs that are difficult to find and they may be available only with private dedicated collectors. I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I had the privilege of meeting Mr Bakshshish Singh in Sudhir jee’s residence. He has a nice collection of old and obscure songs and he is ever willing to share them. While leaving, he left his portable hard disk with Sudhir jee for him to see what was useful for him. Next day, when I was again in Sudhir Jee’s residence, I looked at the contents of the hard disk and copied some of it as may fit in my pen drive.
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Prem ki pyaari nishaani
Posted on: January 10, 2013
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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.
Sachin Dev Burman started his musical career as a singer-composer, mainly of non-filmy songs in the 1930s in Calcutta (Kolkatta). After joining the Hindi film industry as a music director in 1946, he sang very few songs in Hindi films and that too only those composed by himself. So I was under the impression that he did not sing any songs in Hindi films under the baton of other music directors. I was wrong in my impression as I found a few days that he sang such songs way back in the beginning of his career. As early as 1941, he had rendered a song for a Hindi film under the music direction of Madhulal Damodar Master. This song happened to be his debut song for Hindi films.
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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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