Archive for the ‘Romantic song’ Category
when one listens to O P Nayyar’s music, one often may find his music sounding same. But when one frees one’s mind of such pre conceived notions (viz. different compositions of a music composer needs to sound different from each other), one can enjoy music the best. And in case of O P Nayyar’s music, one should listen to the music and enjoy the indescribable quality of enjoyment that these compositions bring. This quality cannot be taught/ learnt/passed on to future generations. It was a quality that went into oblivion with O P Nayyar. And we need to savour the legacy that O P Nayyar has left behind.
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“Kaafilaa” (1952) was a Munshi Productions movie. It was directed by Arvind Sen and the star cast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaywant, Motilal, Amrita, Nazir Hussain, Sunalini Devi, Anant Prabhu, Mumtaz, Ranjan etc in it.
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I am very much aware of this movie called “Tu Nahin Aur Sahi” (1960). I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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Ye shokh sitaare
Posted on: August 27, 2011
“Ek Thi Ladki” (1949) is a movie starring Motilal and Meena Shorey. This movie is famous for the iconic song Laara lappa laara lappa laai rakhdaa(Ek Thi Ladki). I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie, and all these songs are just outstanding.
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Teri reshmi zulfen chhoo kar
Posted on: August 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Atul ji and Arun ji have talked about the lady music directors of the 30s and 40s, like Saraswati Devi, Jaddan Bai etc. The careers of these lady composers did not last for very long in the industry. Then in late 1950s, another lady music director made a debut (with Dil Deke Dekho, 1959), and the industry was introduced to Usha Khanna. A career that is still continuing, Usha Khanna has now been active in the industry for a little more than fifty years. Her career was most active in the 1960s and up to the mid 90s, after which her assignments have been few and far between. She never got any Filmfare awards, but in 1983, she was a runner up for the music direction award for the film Souten. In 1979, Yesudas won the best singer award for the song ‘Dil Ke Tukde Tukde Kar Ke Muskuraa Ke Chal Diye’ from the film Dada, with the music composed by Usha Khanna.
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Ham aur tum aur ye samaa
Posted on: August 8, 2011
Shammi Kapoor discovered his calling as the actor we all know and admire in 1957 with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha”. It was followed by “Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) and the phenomenon of Shammi Kapoor was well on its way.
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While listening to this song, I could not but help feel that I had already discussed this song in the past. I checked and re checked, but I found that no, this song has not been discussed earlier. Yes, I had discussed another song with almost similar first line, and written by the same lyricist and composed in the same year !
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I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song. But as is often the case, I realised that my impression was wrong when the lyrics of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra.
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Dil de diya hai tujhko
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I had neither heard of this movie nor this song. But it appears that in the form of “Naach” (1949), I may have hit a goldmine.
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Chaand sitaare karte ishaare
Posted on: June 7, 2011
“Adl e Jahaangir” (1955) was the first movie directed by G P Sippy of “Sholay” (1975) fame. this movie had Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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