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Paapi papeeha re pi pi na bol
Posted on: March 21, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my younger days, I got acquainted with some of the popular music directors of the pre-partition days mainly through listening to some of their bench-mark songs on Radio Ceylon. Khwaja Khurshid Anwar is one of those names.
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“Lekh” (1949) was a Liberty Arts Production. It was directed by G Ganesh. Starcast of the movie included Motilal, Suraiyya, Anand Pal, Cuckoo, Ishu, Jagirdar, Sitara etc.
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I have discussed songs from “Taqdeer” (1943) as well as “Taqdeer” (1967) in this blog. It turns out that there was a movie with this title in 1950s too.
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“Laal Kunwar” (1952) , by now a forgotten movie, was an N V M Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Suraiyya, Jairaj, Usha Kiran, Agha, Durga Khote etc.
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This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Since Jan 31st, 2012 is the 7th death anniversary of Suraiya (Suraiya Jamal Sheikh), here is a song to remember a beautiful actress.
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“Kamal Ke Phool” (1950) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie was a Famous Pictures Production. It was directed by D D Kashyap and the star cast included names like Badri Prasad, Suraiya, Jeevan, Raj Mehra, Leela Misra, Niranjan Sharma, Shakuntala, Amarnath etc in it.
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Mujhe tumse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 24, 2012
Posting writeups during journey is turning out to be more difficult than I thought on this return journey. I was hoping that I would be able to discuss several songs in this return journey but so far I have been unable to do so. With difficulty, I have managed to post one song so far. Here is another song for the day.
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Koi ye baat kya samjhe
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“Khilaadi” (1950) was a Talwar Films production. The movie had an impressive star cast consisting of Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc.
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“Jagbeeti” (1946) is by now an extremely obscure movie. It was produced by Din pictures and it was directed by M Sadiq. The starcast of the movie, as mentioned in YT is Sadiq Ali, Auraiya, Shakir, Sulochana Chatterji, Abbas, Himalyawala.
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I have discussed as many as eight songs from “Bilwamangal” (1954) already in the blog. Majority of songs of this movie were sung by C H Atma and Suraiyya, who played the lead roles in this movie.
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