Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
This article is written by sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The name Sulochana Kadam may not ring bells for many except for old Hindi film songs buffs. I was not aware of this name as a playback singer in Hindi film industry until I got a 78 RPM gramophone record of her song ‘mausam aaya hai rangeen’ from film ‘Dholak’ (1951) sometime in early 70s. But I was aware of the name Sulochana Chavan as the famous lavani singer of Maharashtra.
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“Alibaba”(1940) must be one of the earliest (if not the earliest) Hindi movie based on the well known Arabian nights tale of Alibaba and the forty thieves. This movie had Surendranath, Wahidanbai, Sadra Akhtar, Ghulam Mohammad etc in it. It was produced by Sagar and directed by Mehboob.
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“Khubsoorat” (1952) was a Fazli Brothers production. It was directed by S F Hussain. The movie had Nasir Khan, Suraiya, Yakub, Bhudo Advani, Zubeida, Jankidas etc in it.
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Laut ke aa gaye hain wo
Posted on: June 20, 2012
“Khamosh Nigaahen” (1946) is an obscure movie by now. This movie had the distinction of being the debut movie of Vinod as a music director.
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Saajan tumse pyaar karoon main
Posted on: June 19, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Recently, I came across a rare song ‘saajan tumse pyaar karoon main’ from the film BADNAAM (1952) sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It was written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by Basant Prakash. I always felt that this talented music director belonging to the golden era of Hindi film songs was side tracked by Hindi film industry for reasons best known to them. As a result, during his 30years of active filmy career, he was the music director in about a dozen films only, some of which were joint ventures with other music directors.
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Taare wohi hain chaand wohi hai
Posted on: June 17, 2012
“Anmol Ratan” (1950) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Dewan Production movie. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan, Meena, Gope, Gulab, Nirmala, Madan Puri etc in it.
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Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi” is one of those rare gems which involves all B-grade names apart from the peerless Lata Mangeshkar herself.
It is her sublime rendering of this number on a lesser light of that period, namely, Vijaya Chowdhary, with B-grade Bollywood hero Ranjan sometimes in the frame.
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Main saagar ki mast lahar
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have a 78 RPM record (N.50600) of the song ‘saathi na bane koi’ from film DHUAAN (1953) sung by Krishna Goel which was set to music by Dhaniram. Since I was not able to listen to this record (which in any case is in poor condition) for want of a record player, I have been searching for the audio clip of the same on the internet sites.
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Jab ankhiyaan pehli baar milin
Posted on: June 13, 2012
“Paraaye Bas Mein”(1946) is as obscure a movie as any. Hardly any information is available about this movie now.
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