Archive for the ‘Semi Classical song’ Category
“Pahli Jhalak” (1954) was a Jagat Pictures Productions. It was directed by M V Raman. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyantimala, Dara Singh, Shammi, Roopa Verma, Jawahar Kaul, Shivraj, Kamlakant, Om Prakash, Anil, Pran etc in it.
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Patiyaan pathikwaa
Posted on: August 17, 2013
During the earlier days of the blog, I discussed a few songs of my liking in the blog on a daily basis and that was all there was to the blog.
But with the blog gradually evolving and taking on a more complex form, nowadays I have to take many factors into consideration that I did not have to in the earlier simpler days.
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Jaao re jogi tum jaao re
Posted on: August 13, 2013
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today, the 13th of August, is the birthday of one of Hindi cinema’s big stars of the 1950s and 60s, Vyjanthimala.
If one were to go by her recorded year of birth as 1936, today is her 77th birthday. While recording this fact, I could not help observing that two other legends of the same period, Waheeda Rehman and Nutan, are also recorded as 1936 born. Somebody up there must have been in a liberal mood in 1936 to decide to send these three to Planet Earth in the same year!
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Ta thai tata thai ata that thai tat
Posted on: July 2, 2013
Tere Mere Sapne (1971) was produced and directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Mumtaz, Tabassum, Leela Misra, Mumtaz Begum, Premnath, Dulari, Rajpal, V. Gopal, Uma Dutt, Jankidas, Ravikant, Bhagwan Sinha, Sundershan Sethi, Soni, Agha, Sapru, Mahesh Kaul, Jayshree T., Paro, Vijay Anand etc in it.
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Deepak jalaao jyoti jagaao
Posted on: June 2, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Seven song of the film Sangeet Samrat Tansen (1962) are posted in the blog. This singular Rafi solo is the eighth song to appear. It seems to me that Bharat Bhooshan is in the title role. The song is the creation of lyricist Shailendra and Music Director S N Tripathi. But to elevate this song in a film based on a vocalist life, the onus rest heavily on Rafi Sahab. And the award goes to Mohammed Rafi Sahab. Not lyrical, not musical but a vocal beauty, this one.
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Main ka piyaa bulaave
Posted on: May 19, 2013
“Sur Sangam” (1985) was a Vijaya Madhavee Pictures production. It was produced by Vadde Ramesh and directed by K Vishwanath. The movie had Girish Karnad, Jayaprada, Sachin, Sadhana Singh, Paintal, Mohan Choti, Deven Varma, Bhushan Tiwari, Bharati Achrekar, Tabassum, Dina Pathak, Asha Singh, Urmila Matondkar, Sulabha Deshpande, S P Dubey, Jitmohan Mitra, O P Singh, Mohan, KrishnaMurthy, Bheemeshwara Rao, Akash Singh, Baby Mamata etc in it.
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Daya kar hey girdhar gopal
Posted on: May 5, 2013
Today (5 may 2013) is the seventh death anniversary of Naushad (25 december 1919- 5 may 2006). He was one of the earliest pioneers of Hindi movie music who helped shape the destiny of Hindi movie music and determined the course that this new music form would take.
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Aag raag se aag lagaa do
Posted on: April 19, 2013
“Sultaan e Aalam” (1956) was produced by H P Mehra. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Heeralal, Kuldip Kaur etc in it.
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Basa le apne man mein preet
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Baaghbaan means Baghwaan or a Gardener, one who tends the Gardens. To most readers, the name will remind of a film of same name, released in 2003.
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Naach re mayuraa
Posted on: April 1, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati service of all India Radio (Aakashvani) were the two sources on which I used to listen to Hindi film songs’ programmes. I got to know only sometime in late 60s that Aakashvani stations were not broadcasting Hindi film songs prior to the setting of Vividh Bharati in 1957. Later I came to know that this policy decision was taken by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in 1952 when Dr B V Keskar, the then Information and Broadcasting Minister felt that Hindi film songs had become vulgar and westernised. It was decided that some songs having literary value such as those written by poets like Bhagwati Charan Verma and Pandit Narendra Sharma should be turned into songs and played on Aakashvani in place of Hindi film songs. It is said that some of such songs were composed by Anil Biswas. It was during this time that Lata Mangeshkar sang her first non-filmy song ‘yug ki sandhya krishak vadhu si’ written by Pandit Narendra Sharma and composed by Anil Biswas during. Unfortunately, this song’s disc was damaged during its first play on the radio and was thus lost forever.
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