Archive for the ‘Separation song’ Category
Tere bina o sajna
Posted on: October 12, 2012
“Majboor” (1964) was a De Luxe Films production. It was directed by Narendra Suri. The movie had Biswajeet, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Rajendranath, Suresh, Sabita Chatterjee, Ram Avtaar, Sapru, Jagdev, Gyani etc in it.
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“Dillagi” (1949) was a Kardar Productions movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Shyam, Suraiya, Sharada, Amar, Shyam Kumar, Amir Banu, Chandabai, Yasmin etc in it.
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Mera dil todne waale
Posted on: July 22, 2012
Today (22 july) is the birth anniversary of Mukesh (22 july 1923-27 aug 1976). This is an important date for this blog as it gives us a reason to discuss a few Mukesh songs on this occasion.
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“Road To Sikkim” (1969) was a Kirti Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Dev Kumar, Anju Mahendru, Helen, Dhumal, Jayant, Asit Sen, Tuntun, Jankidas, David Abraham, Lalita Pawar, etc in it.
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Taare wohi hain chaand wohi hai
Posted on: June 17, 2012
“Anmol Ratan” (1950) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Dewan Production movie. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Karan Dewan, Meena, Gope, Gulab, Nirmala, Madan Puri etc in it.
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Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Tum na aaye sanam shamma jalti rahi” is one of those rare gems which involves all B-grade names apart from the peerless Lata Mangeshkar herself.
It is her sublime rendering of this number on a lesser light of that period, namely, Vijaya Chowdhary, with B-grade Bollywood hero Ranjan sometimes in the frame.
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Aa muhabbat ki basti basaayenge ham
Posted on: May 27, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
My all-time favourite Lata-Kishore duet is from the Famina Production’s Fareb (1953) ” Aa, mohabbat ki basti basaayenge hum”, in which the duo are at their soulful best in expressing the pangs of separation of the two lovers, so poignantly captured in Majrooh Sultanpuri’s breath-taking imagery “dekh dharti se aakaash hai kitni door!”
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Khursheed Bano ( 14/04/1914 – 18/04/2001), the singer of immortal songs such as “panchhi baawara chaand se preet lagaaye” , “ghataa ghanghor ghor” , “jiske milne ki tamanna thhi wo pyaara mil gayaa” was born as Irshad Begum near Lahore on April 14, 1914. She became an actor at a time when the era of silent movie was about to end. In the advent of talkie films when actors had to sing their own songs, she had to learn singing in furtherance of her acting career. In one of her interviews, she said that it was because of the painstaking efforts by music directors of that time that some of the actors like her could improve their singing skills.
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“Leela” (1947) is an obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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