Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Laayi kahaan hai zindagi
Posted on: February 23, 2012
Yesterday Peevesie’s mom made her debut as a lyrics contributor by sending the lyrics of a song from “Taxi Taxie” (1977). The movie may be of recent vintage, but little information is available about this movie. That is where we can always log on to our inhouse encyclopaedia and get all the details. Here is what our walking encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh has to say about this movie:-
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Tose laage nainaa
Posted on: February 23, 2012
“Nayi Raahen” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. It was a Goel Cine Corporation Production. Devendra Goel was the producer and the movie was directed by Brij Sadanah. Starcast of the movie includes names like Ashok Kumar,Geeta Bali,Shubha Khote, Anoop Kumar, Nazir Hussain, RadhaKrishan, Madan Puri, Mohan Choti, Nazir Kashmiri etc.
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Mere lalla ko sulaayegi nindiya
Posted on: February 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was aware of the film Suhagan (1964) but never knew that one more film by the same name was released in 1954. In fact, I found that most of the websites including IMD jumbled the details of both these films in Suhagan (1954). As per Indian Film Trade website, the film was produced by Datta Dharmadhikari, a Marathi film veteran who has been known for producing and directing family drama films. Anant Mane, also a veteran Marathi film director, directed the film. The star cast included Geeta Bali and Jaswant in the lead role and Shyam Kumar, Sulochana, Vijaylaxmi, Janakidas in subsidiary roles.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Welcome all to the 5500th song on this blog. It seems like just a few days ago, that we had celebrated the 5000th milestone. And now, just a little more than three months later, we are already at the 5500 mark today. The journey of this musical bandwagon continues along merrily, and every day there is a treat of music that Atul ji is providing to all aficionados of old Hindi film music. But more than just good music and joy of listening, through this blog Atul ji is doing a yeoman’s service to the film industry, to the countless fans, and to this art form itself.
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Jab jab tujhko chhuaa
Posted on: February 21, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
1959 was the busiest year in the career of music director N Dutta. That year, seven films with music composed by him, were released. (Six of these films are already represented in this blog. ‘Naach Ghar’ is one film that is awaiting entry here). And the music of these films is notable and still remembered – films like ‘Black Cat’, ‘Dhool Ka Phool’, ‘Didi’, ‘Bhai Bahen’, ‘Mr. John’, and ‘Jaalsaaz’.
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Aur hai dil ki lagi
Posted on: February 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I came to know about the film RAAG RANG (1952) in early 70s while discussing some old Hindi songs with one of my office colleagues who had a vast collections of old Hindi film songs in 78 rpm records.
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Ham tumhaare ho chuke hain
Posted on: February 20, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the financial markets to which I belonged until my retirement, there is an oft repeated remark that not even a die-hard practitioner or expert in the financial markets can claim that he knows everything about the markets. This is mainly on account of the fact that financial markets are dynamic by nature. How true this maxim is in the realm of old Hindi film songs where dynamism flows from unearthing old gems and some related unknown anecdotes.
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Dilwaale dilgeer huaa
Posted on: February 19, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Yatrik, a vintage film was made in 1952. I had heard so many times, so many good things about this movie from my mother, when I was a little kid. But, was never too much interested in old movies mainly because they had too many songs. Because of the age & my limited “soch” to understand the depth of these songs, I never paid any attention either to watch any movies on Doordarshan or to listen to those songs on radio.
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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.
‘Hum hain raahi pyaar ke’ – the phrase reminds me of an iconic song “ham hain raah pyaar ke ham se kuchh naa boliye” from the film NAU DO GYAARAH (1957) and the Amir Khan-Juhi Chawala starrer film HUM HAIN RAAHI PYAAR KE (1993). I was not aware of the fact that there was one more film by the same name until I came across an audio clip of a beautiful song from that film.
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Bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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