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Mohe ratiyaa neend na aaye
Posted on: August 1, 2012
These days people fight elections to come to power and once they get a taste for it, then want to cling to it at any cost. During mythological times, the King of gods, viz Lord Indra would cling to his chair like a leech. One did not have to fight elections to come to power those days. One needed to do tapasya (penance) in a jungle for long years. Whenever a tapaswi sage would decide to go to a jungle and do “tapasya”, Lord Indra would get worried, thinking that the sage was after his chair. So he would try to disrupt the “tapasya”.
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Suno suno hey nar naari
Posted on: July 25, 2012
Today (25 july) is the birth anniversary of Sudhir Phadke. He got very few opportunities to give music in Hindi movies. As a result, most of his musical creations are in Marathi, where he is a legend as a music composer as well as a singer.
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Taaron mein saj ke
Posted on: July 22, 2012
“Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli”(1971) was a V Shantaram Productions movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram movie. The movie had Ravindra, Vasant Parekh, Minal, Abhijeet, Vastala Deshmukh, Iftekhar, Sandhya, Dina Gandhi, Raja Paranjpe, Nanda, Birbal, Praveen Kumar, Sushant Ray etc in it. The movie was a resounding failure at the box office. Even its songs failed to climb to the popularity stakes. But that is only to be expected seeing that 1971 was a year of bumper crop of outstanding music.
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Kaahe tu been bajaaye saperaa
Posted on: June 30, 2012
Today (30 june) is the birth anniversary of Kalyanji, of the Kalyanji Anandji fame. Kalyanji Anandji were one of the most successful music directors from 1950s till 1970s. Many of their songs have gone on to become immortal. This blog has as many as 255 songs composed by them as of now.
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“Patanga” (1949) was a Varma Films Production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Yacub, Gope, Cuckoo, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Hamdard”(1953) was a Variety production movie. It was directed by S Bhagat. the movie had Nimmi, Rajen Kapoor, Shekhar, Yashodhara Katju, Shivraj, Ishu, Jagirdar, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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Nainaa boley nainaa
Posted on: June 3, 2012
Today (3rd june) happens to be the birthday of Illayaraja. Like many greats of South Indian movies, he too had a brief foray into Hindi movies, though working in South Indian movies continued to be their major field of activity where he has been a legend for the past few decades.
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We have discussed a couple of songs from “Teesri Kasam” (1966) recently. In the course of that discussion, I have learnt the story of the novel called “Maare Gaye Gulfaam” which was picturised as “Teesri Kasam”. The movie has faithfully reproduced the flavour of the novel. The movie failed to find favour with the majority of the moviegoers during its first release, but the re-releases have seen the movie doing better.
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Bachke balam kahaan jaaoge
Posted on: May 5, 2012
“Naya Andaz” (1956) was a K Amarnath Productions movie. It was produced and directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Meena Kumari, Kishore Kumar, Gope, Kumkum, Jayant, Pran, Johnny Walker, Murad etc in it.
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