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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.
Most of the popular Hindi film songs of golden era are remembered even today not only because of melodies and rhythms embedded in them but also because the lyrics of those songs are poetic and meaningful. The quality of lyrics in Hindi film songs started deteriorating sometime from the beginning of 90s and by 2000 onwards, the deterioration in lyrics was almost complete. However, there were a few poet-lyricists who continued to write meaningful lyrics for the Hindi film songs even in 21st century though they had to occasionally cross the ‘self imposed laxman rekha’ in keeping with the current waves of the Hindi film music. Among such poet-lyricists, names of Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Hasan Kamal and Prasoon Joshi come to my mind.
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Dilli hai dil Hindustan ka
Posted on: August 15, 2012
Today (15 august 2012) is the 65th Independence day of India.
The main function on this day is held in New Delhi at the Red Fort (Laal Qila) from where the Prime Minister addresses the nation. The eyes of the nation are glued to New Delhi on the occasion through TV, Radio, etc.
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Dekho jee dekho sun lo ye baat
Posted on: July 29, 2012
Today (29 july) is the death anniversary of F C Mehra (29 august 1923 – 29 july 2008), who set up Eagle Films and he produced some well known movies from 1960 onwards.
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Hum panchhi mastaane
Posted on: July 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is the death anniversary of Madan Mohan, a music composer who is synonymous with some of the finest music we have seen in Hindi cinema.
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Dil mera tumhaari adaayen le gayin
Posted on: June 4, 2012
“Gauri”(1968) was a Shivaji Films Production. The movie was directed by A Bhimsingh. The starcast of the movie had names like Sunil Dutt, Nutan, Sanjeev Kumar, Mumtaz, Rajendra Nath, Laxmi Chhaya, Urmila Bhatt, Leela Mishra, Ashim Kumar, Shivraj, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Khudaara yoon na dil todo
Posted on: June 2, 2012
“Ye Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai” (1966) was produced and directed by R K Naiyyar. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Saira Bano, Madan Puri, Ashok Kumar, Motilal, Badri Prasad, Manmohan etc in it.
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Apni apni biwi pe sabko guroor hai
Posted on: May 29, 2012
“Do Raaste”(1970) is a well known movie because this movie had Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz in it, with the stars of both of them being on the rise. This movie was produced and directed by Raj Khosla. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Balraj Sahni, Jayant, Veena, Mohan Choti, Birbal, Asit Sen, Randhir, Leela Misra, Bindu, Mehmood Junior, Kamini Kaushal, Prem Chopra etc in it.
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Ik sunahri shaam thhi
Posted on: October 18, 2011
“Aao Pyaar Karen” (1964) is a movie which was produced by Filmalaya and directed by R K Nayyar. the movie had Joy Mukherjee (whose home production it was), Saira Bano,Madhvi, Shyam Chatterji, Rajendranath, Merlyn, Manavendranath, Jayant Shah etc.
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I had mentioned in an earlier discussion that Helen’s aspirations (if any) of playing mainstream rolers in Hindi movies (where mainstream roles means donning a sari /salwar kurta etc and singing songs that are the preserve of leading ladies) were realised on movies like “Cha Cha Cha” (1964) and “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979). She in fact won the Filmfare award for best supporting actress too, for her role in “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979).
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