Archive for the ‘Semi Classical song’ Category
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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Mitwa laut aaye ri
Posted on: February 22, 2013
“Sangeet Samrat Tansen” (1962) was a Sur Sagar Chitra production. It was directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Anita Guha, Sabita Chatterjee, Kumar, Mukri, David Abraham, Prem Sagar, Sapru, S N Tripathi etc in it.
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“Dil Ki Raahen” (1973) was a Majida movies production. It was directed by B R Ishara. The movie had Amrit Lakhanpal, Rehana Sultan, Dilip Dutt, Rakesh Pandey, Sulochana, Johnny Whisky etc in it.
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Aaj miley man ke meet
Posted on: February 7, 2013
“Nawab Sirazudaula” (1967) was a Lok Bharti Chitra Production. It was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Kalpana, Manhar Desai, Moti Sagar, Daisy Irani, B. M. Vyas, Naseem, Johnny Walker, Murad etc in it.
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Garjat barsat bheejat aailo
Posted on: November 20, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Shammi-Arjun starrer Malhaar (1951), which was conceived by S.K.Pal and directed by Harish, was first of the two films produced under the banner of Darling Films by singer Mukesh (the other being “Anuraag” in 1956). It had a young and largely inexperienced cast and crew, for many of whom it was their debut vehicle. The film was a showpiece of technical brilliance, especially the taut and precise editing by S. Prabhakar and deft cinematography by M. Rajaram, considering the equipment available to him in that era.
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Chitnandan aage naachoongi
Posted on: November 12, 2012
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) was an AVM productions movie. It was directed by Krishnan Panju. The movie had Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Om Prakash, Lalita Pawar, Manorama, Nigar Sultana, Geetanjali, Hira Lal, Umesh Sharma, Bharati, Sujata, Shabnam, Baby Sonia(aka Neetu Singh) etc in it.
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Chori chori tori aayi hai Radha
Posted on: November 3, 2012
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hum Hindustani a patriotic film of 1960 had the message of youth turning the nation into a hub of industrial and green revolution. Portraying the two faces of the Indian youth were Sunil Dutt and Joy Mukherjee. The former an upright engineer and the latter a bit misled.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few months back, I came across a thumri ‘ro ro nain gawaaun sajanwaa aan milo’ sung by Ashraf Khan. I liked this thumri and assumed it to be a traditional thumri bandish rather than from a Hindi film. I marked it in my play list and forgot about it. It was only when I read an article on actor-singer Ashraf Khan written by Arun Kumar Deshmukh as part of a series of his articles on some lesser known singers for this blog that I realised that the thumri sung by Ashraf Khan which I referred to earlier was in fact a thumri based song from the film ‘Baaghbaan’ (1938).
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“Manzil” (1960) was a Kalpana Pictures production. It was directed by Mandi Burman. The movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Mehmood, David, K N Singh, Badri Prasad, Achala Sachdev, Pratima Devi, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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