Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
While looking for Jaidev compositions to be posted today (6th january) on his death anniversary, I came across gems after gems that I heard in my formative days without having any inkling that they were composed by Jaidev. These are songs that tempted me to hold on to them for some other special occasions. But if I hold on to all his compositions for some future occasion then I will have to stop discussing Jaidev compositions, such is the quality of all the songs that I am coming across.
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I have mentioned in the past that most movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that were released. But there are cases when a movie fails to get released but a few of its songs get released and some of them even become popular.
Then there are some cases when the movie as well as the songs remain unreleased for decades, before someone decided to release the audio of the songs from the still unreleased movie.
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Saal mubaarak saahib jee
Posted on: January 1, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings all atulites, and best wishes for a wonderful 2012.
May this year bring all the good tidings you expect to hear
May this year bring blessings of good health to all in family
May this year bring cherishing moments of joy and delight each day
May this year bring new friendships and strengthen old ones
May this year bring plentiful prosperity to your household
May your time and space be filled with music of your liking 😀
And the rhythm of days become the melody of life Throughout the year
And here is also wishing this blog to measure many more milestones
May this musical bandwagon continue to press on this musical journey together
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“Seedha Rasta” (1947) was a movie produced by Prabhat Film company. This movie has Shahu Modak and Kamla Kotnis in lead roles.
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Todo todo todo dil ke taar
Posted on: December 29, 2011
“Amar Raj” (1946) is an obscure movie by now and little is known about this movie.
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Dil leke dil diya hai
Posted on: December 28, 2011
Love is the most common theme in Hindi movie songs. There are many variations of this theme and one of them is light teasing between lovers.
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Main jab gaaun geet suhaanaa
Posted on: December 28, 2011
Originally written by me, this writeup has subsequently been thoroughly revamped and rewritten by Sudhir, following his detailed and thorough investigation into this song
“Amar Raj” (1946) is a movie which was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy from what little I can gather on internet.
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“Shikaari” (1946) is a movie which had Ashok Kumar, Paro, Veera, Ram Shukul, Leela Mishra etc in it. This song was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director and this movie had some nice songs in it.
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Chanda des piyaa ke jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
“Bharthari” (1944) is a movie that I became aware of when I discovered a wonderful song from this movie and discussed it in this blog. No information of any sort was available on this movie on internet till then. But our in house encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh had exhaustive information about him which he shared with us in his comments to that post.
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