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Parmukh bani tu Kamla
Posted on: October 20, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
MUSIC is an inseparable part of Indian culture.
From the Vedic periods, music has been in use. Many Mantras and Richas are to be recited in musical notes. It was believed that sound waves have special powers.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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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.
I am aware of the film ‘Siskiyaan’ which was released in 2005 but did not know that a film with the same name was made some time in early 50s until I stumbled upon a beautiful song ‘tum bhi wohi ho main bhi wohi hoon’ on YT a few days back. I liked the song so much that I at once sat down to decipher the lyrics for posting on the blog. But on a second thought, I got a doubt about the singer of this song which the YT uploader has credited to Kishori Amonkar. As far as I know from the various sources of the websites, Kishori Amonkar’s first Hindi film song as a playback singer was “geet gaayaa pathharon ne” in 1964. Mogubai Kurdikar did not like her daughter to venture into playback singing career. As a result, Kishori Amonkar did not sing for any films until Drishti (1990) for which she was also the music director.
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Bhooli huyi yaad aayee kahaani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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Na chaand ho na suraj ho
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Jaadugar Daaku” (1962) was a Joy Films production. It was directed by Chandrakant Desai. The movie had Ajit, Helen, Madhumati, Jabeen Jalil, Bela Bose, Tiwari, Jairaj, Maruti, Samson, Tuntun etc in it.
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Main hoon Mr John
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Naach Ghar” (1959) was a Kwality Pictures Production. It was directed by R S Tara. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Anoop Kumar, Kamala Laxman, Helen, Shobha Khote, Iftekhar, Gopi Krishna etc in it. Not much is known about this movie.
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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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Lesser known singers- Singer 9 (Utpala Sen)
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BANGLA is a very sweet language. Many times I wonder whether Bengali sweets are sweeter or the Bangla language. I have never tried to answer this question myself, because I liked both.
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Mohe le chal balam mele mein
Posted on: October 13, 2012
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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Lesser known singers- Singer 8 (Vatsala Kumthekar)
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Lord Byron had said,” Time is a great leveller”.
To paraphrase Lord Byron, Hindi film industry is a great leveller. This industry has taken some people from Rags to Riches and some others from Riches to Rags !
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Nazron ki duniya aabaad kar de
Posted on: October 13, 2012
“Najma” (1943) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Veena, Sitara Devi, Yakub, Murad, M Kumar etc in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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