Archive for the ‘Sentimental song’ Category
Hamne jafaa na seekhi
Posted on: February 6, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Zindagi was made in 1964 with star casts as Rajendra Kumar, VMala, Raj Kumar, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Mehmood, Jeevan, Jayant, Leela Chitnis, Dhumal, Kanhaiyalal, Hiralal & Helen. The movie was produced by SS Vasan, Gemini Pictures and was directed by Ramanand Sagar.
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Sab pyaar ki baaten karte hain
Posted on: February 5, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I had resolved not to access any Hindi film related websites for few days to enable me to attend to some other pending works which included writing my travel blogs. But the urge to listen to old Hindi film songs was so strong that this resolution was broken in less than 24 hours. It appears that listening to and discovering new ‘gems’ from old Hindi film songs is an addiction for which there is no detoxification therapy. 😀
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Bhoolne waale yaad na aa
Posted on: February 3, 2012
“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob Khan and the starcast included names like Surendra, Prem Adeeb,Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, Naseem etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The past decades are a treasure house of musical gems – the more one digs and searches, one finds more new and forgotten melodies that are simply superb musical creations. I know, one of these days, we may come to a point where we have searched and located all the physically existing songs from Hindi films. But I also know, that day is still far off, and we will continue to come up with these discoveries for some more good length of time.
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Nashaad, not to be confused with Naushad, was born as Shaukat Ali. He began his career as a music director in Hindi movies in 1947. In his earlier movies, he was variously known as Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalvi, Shaukat Hussain, Shaukat Haidari, Shaukat Hussain Haidari etc. It was in 1953 that film director cum lyricist Nakshab Jarachavi coined the name Nashad for him. The name brought him luck. In fact this name was adopted by his family members as their surname the way the desendents of music director Roshan adopted the name Roshan (first name of Roshanlal Nagrath) as their surname.
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- In: "Get together" song | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Prakashchandra | Lyrics contributed by readers | Sentimental song | Songs of 1980s (1981 to 1990) | Songs of 1982 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Bemisaal” (1982) is a movie which was produced by Debesh Ghosh and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie was a big budget movie which spared no expenses and had Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role.
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Diye jalte hain phool khilte hain
Posted on: January 4, 2012
- In: "Phool" song | Amitabh Bachchan present (without lip syncing) | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Feelings of heart | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Sentimental song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1973 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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4th january is the day when R D Burman left for the heavenly abode at quite a young age of 54. He was easily the most influential music director of my formative age, viz 1970s. R D Burman as the music director, Kishor Kumar as the male playback singer and Rajesh Khanna as the male superstar arrived at the scene almost simultaneously and they all left their indelible mark of Hindi movie industry.
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“Amaanush” (1975) is a movie which was produced in Bangla as well as Hindi. The star cast as well as the music of the two versions were common. The star cast consisted of some big names of Bangla movies, viz Uttam Kumar, Anil Chatterjee, Manik Dutt,Utpal Dutt etc. Even Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of this movie was from Bangla background.
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“Amaanush” (1975) was a movie that was made in Bangla as well as Hindi. The music of the two versions remained the same with the same music director composing for both the movies. Only the lyricist (naturally) changed.
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Kis tarah jeete hain ye log
Posted on: December 19, 2011
“Nai Roshni” (1967) is a forgotten movie despite being a “recent” movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had actors like Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Anwar Hussain, Asit Sen, Mala Sinha, Tanuja, Sulochana, Biswajeet, Pratimadevi etc in it.
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