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Har shaam shaam e gham hai
Posted on: November 29, 2012
“Mera Salaam”(1957) was a Sushil Pictures production. It was directed by Harbans Singh. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Bina Rai, Veena, Nishi, Gope, Durga Khote, Al Nasir, K N Singh etc in it.
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Mere haal par bebasi ro rahi hai
Posted on: November 9, 2012
“Zameendaar” (1942) was a Pancholi Arts production. It was directed by Moti B Gidwani. The movie had S D Narang, Manorama, Shanta Apte, Ghulam Mohammed, Anwari, M Ismail etc in it.
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Aaj dil pe koi zor chalta nahin
Posted on: October 25, 2012
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This musical bandwagon continues to roll on unabated (touchwood !) and we continue to pass milestones at regular intervals.
Century of songs is the most basic and common kind of milestone for this song. In the earlier days of the blog, we just counted the number of songs posted in the day and every 100th song was a cause for celebration.
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Khuda e bartar teri zameen par
Posted on: October 25, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a story of the only son of a wealthy jagirdar ( feudal land owner) Choudhary Fazal Mohammed and Sardar Begum, one of his wives. The jagirdar had almost deserted Sardar Begum but he wanted his only son in his custody for which he was prepared to pay a handsome monetary compensation to his estranged wife. But she was not prepared to part with her son. The matter went to the court and the judge asked their 9 year old son to make a choice as to whether he would stay with his father or mother. He had to make a choice between a wealthy father and a poor mother who was facing difficulties in sustaining on a day to day basis. The young boy preferred his poor mother to his wealthy father. In preferring to stay with his poor mother, the young boy may have perhaps made a statement of intent to his father that ‘tu itnaa ameer nahin banaa abba ki tu apne bête ko khareed sake’ – a similar type of dialogue used in the film ‘Deewaar’ (1975). The boy was Abdul Hayee later known as Sahir Ludhianvi.
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Today (27 september) is the 80th birthday of Yashraj Chopra, a veteran producer and director of Hindi movies. He began his career as a director in “Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) which was produced by B R Chopra, his elder brother. He directed five movies under the banner of “B R Chopra productions”. All of them were hit movies. He won Filmfare best director award for one of these movies, viz. “Waqt” (1965). In all he won Four Filmfare awards for best direction and four Filmfare awards for best movies in his career.
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“Elaan” (1947) was a Mehboob Productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mehboob Khan.
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Aansuon ko thhaam le
Posted on: September 17, 2012
I have heard of the movie called “Kunwaara Baap” (1974) but I was not aware of a movie called “Chhota Baap”. It turns out that a movie of this title was released in 1977. This movie, despite being a recent movie by the standards of this blog has ended up joining the ranks of obsure movies. This movie was a B grade movie. It was directed by Shantilal Soni. The movie had Romesh Sharma, Bindiya Goswami, Alankar Joshi, Asit Sen, Paintal, Dhumal, Dina Pathak etc in it. With this kind of starcast, it should come as no surprise that few people wanted to watch this movie or even wanted to have anything to do with it.
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I wonder if someone has ever tried to analyse why people like some songs and not other songs. Why do some songs become timeless classic while others are forgotten after their initial run.
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Launching one’s son/daughter in movies in nothing new. This practice is nearly as old as the time whern movies began to be produced in India. The very first star kid who was launched in Hindi movie could well be Nargis in 1940s. She was then followed by Nutan.
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