Archive for the ‘Semi Classical song’ Category
Paa laagoon kar joree re
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mahipal, a name that is so familiar as the actor behind the ‘Raaj Kavi Diwaakar’ in V Shantaram’s ‘Navrang’ (1959), as the healer Zabak in Basant Picture film ‘Zabak’ (1961), or the swashbuckling swordsman Paras in Movieland’s film ‘Parasmani’ (1963), and many more characters played by him in films with historical, mythological and religious themes. But not many people know that Mahipal Chandra Bhandari, a young lad of 23 from Jodhpur, made his debut in films both as an actor and a poet. His first film as an actor, ‘Nazraana’ (1942), a twin production in Hindi and Maarwari, turned out to be a flop, and it would not be for another 8 years, till 1950, that he would catch the attention of the industry and the audience alike, as a performer on the screen. But in the interim, his talent and his childhood interest is writing poetry, kept him busy writing lyrics for films like ‘Maali’ (1944) and ‘Aap Ki Sewa Mein’ (1947).
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Saawan aaye ya na aaye
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In one of my earlier write-ups posted on this blog, I had mentioned that of late, my memories of childhood and younger days have become very sharp where as I tend to forget many events which had happened in recent years. Recently, I came across an article on reminiscence bump theory. It says that there are three stages of memories: (1) the period of childhood amnesia during which we do not remember the events that had happened during infancy to say up to the age of 5 years, (2) reminiscence bump is a tendency for older people to increasingly remember events that happened during 10 to 30 years of age and,(3) the period of middle age to old age, viz.over 35 years of age to the present period during which there is a tendency to forget the events. So my memory is working as per reminiscence bump theory :-). And I am not complaining because it helped me to remember and locate about half a dozen rare songs of 30s and 40s which have already been posted on this blog.
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Navkalpana nav roop se
Posted on: July 31, 2012
Rafi has sung songs for lots and lots of music directors, be they big names or unknown strugglers. I have not kept a count but I am sure that Rafi may have sung for the largest number of music directors among all major playback singers and that way he is a trivia buff’s delight.
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“Rani Roopmati” (1959) was a Ravikala Chitra Production. It was produced and directed by S N Tripathi. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy, Nalini Chonker, Ullhas, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Bharat Bhushan, Amarnath etc in it.
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Last week, I suddenly felt an urge to write an article on Shashi Kapoor whom I admire for being a different Kapoor from his two illustrious brothers – Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor. He may not have the genius and business acumen of Raj Kapoor nor have the yahoo image of Shammi Kapoor. But he scored over his two illustrious brothers in that he was the most handsome among them. I remember a handsome and boyish looking Shashi Kapoor in ‘Waqt’ (1965). With his handsome and ever smiling face, he had a huge fan following during his hey days. He was different from his brothers on one more count – he married an English girl Jennifer Kendal who was associated with a theater group.
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Jaa re badra bairi jaa re jaa
Posted on: June 22, 2012
“Bahaana”(1960) was a Silver Films Production. It was produced by Ram Kumar and directed by M Kumar. The movie had Mehmood, Meena Kumari, Sajjan, Krishna Kumari, Sheela Vaz, Helen, Sulochana Latkar, Anwar, Kumar, Pramila, Azurie, Anwari, Nissar etc in it.
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Jeewan jyot jaley
Posted on: June 21, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Kishore Sahu directed Grahasthi (1963) was a Ashok Kumar-Nirupa Roy, Manoj Kumar-Rajshree starrer. Its four songs Jaa jaa re jaa deewaane jaa , Jaane teri nazron ne kyaa kar diyaa,Khile hain sakhi aaj phulwaa man mein , Zara dekh sanam mera jazba e dil (Grihasthi) plus a write up on the movie and all these songs is already on this blog.
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Bedardi dagaabaaz jaa
Posted on: June 18, 2012
Manmohan Desai’s name is synonymous with movies containing wholesome entertainment as commercial movies are described in official circles. Manmohan Desai’s movies brough great enjoyment to the lives of movie watchers, especially those who grew up in 1970s.
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Kalpana ke ghan baraste
Posted on: June 9, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
June 9, 2012 is the birth centenary of the music director Vasant Desai whom I regard as a man who worked in Hindi film industry on his own terms without being a part of the rate race among his contemporary music directors. Being a devotee of the traditional music, he did not succumb to the lure of money in composing music for mass appeal.
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Mujhe na bulaa
Posted on: June 8, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Produced by P. Aadi Narayana Rao and directed by Vedantam Raghavaiah in 1957, the Hindi version Suvarna Sundari (original in Telugu) is rightfully remembered most for its iconic raagmalika (a multi-raag number) – perhaps a first in a Hindi movie – the famed Lata-Rafi duet Kuhu-kuhu bole koyaliya. It is already on this blog with a comprehensive write up both on the movie and this number.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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