Archive for the ‘Talat Mehmood songs’ Category
“Shabistaan” (1951) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by B Mitra. The movie had Shyam, Naseem Bano, Cuckoo, Bipin Gupta, Bhujbal Singh, Murad, Sapru etc in it.
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Ye kis manzil pe le aayi
Posted on: June 9, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hindi film industry is known for making most of the artists (actors, directors, music directors, singers, lyricists etc.) struggle for years before they finally reap the rewards of success in their careers. There are some who continued to struggle in the film industry for long without attaining much success in their pursuits. For examples, playback singers like Sudha Malhotra and Minoo Purshottam, music directors like C Arjun and G S Kohli and lyricists like Asad Bhopali and Naqsh Layalpuri did not attain the success in their filmy careers which they deserved. In this list, Asad Bhopali seems to be the ‘leader’ among strugglers.
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Din beet chaley din beet chaley
Posted on: June 4, 2013
“Swayamsiddha” (1949) was an Indian National Art Pictures production. It was directed by Shyam Das. The movie had Samar Roy, Shanta Apte, Molina, Hiralal, Priti Majumdar, Bhupendra Kapoor, Gitashree, Amarnath, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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Ae mere hamsafar kya tujhe hai khabar
Posted on: May 9, 2013
“Maalkin” (1953) was a Gopi Productions movie. It was produced by Ram Kamlani and directed by O P Dutta. The movie had Sajjan, Nutan, Purnima, Pran, Durga Khote, Gope, Raj Mehra, Yakub etc in it.
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Pyaar nahin chhupta chhupaane se
Posted on: May 1, 2013
“Laadla” (1954) was a Verma Films Production. It was directed by Surya Kumar. The movie had Karan Deewan, Shyama, Agha, Raj Mehra, Krishna Kumari, S. Nazir, Dar Kashmiri, Dev Kishan, Maruti Rao, Sunder, Parwati etc in it.
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“Angaarey” (1954) was an Akash Chitra Production. It was directed by K B Lal. The movie had Nasir Khan, Nargis, Vanmala, Pran, Paro, Ratan Kumar, K. N. Singh, Jagirdar, Nanda, Jeevan, Sunalini Devi, Jawahar Kaul etc in it.
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Wo jo roothhen to manaana chaahiye
Posted on: April 25, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most of us are aware that a ghazal is a series of couplets (she’rs), each one being independent of others. In fact each she’r is a poem by itself. So theoretically, she’rs written by different poets (shaayars) can be woven to make it a ghazal. This is easier said than done as there are other parameters to make it a traditional ghazal. Normally, there are five essential aspects of a traditional ghazal. They are
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Chanda chamakti raat
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Do Dulhe” (1955), by now an obscure movie, was an United Art production movie. It was directed by K J Mahadevan. The movie had Sajjan, Shyama, Lalita Pawar, Vanjana, David Abraham, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Kanhaiyalal, B. M. Vyas, Ishwarlal etc in it.
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“Daak Babu” (1954) was a Jubilee Pictures production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Talat Mehmood, Nadira, Radhakrishan, Kuldip Kaur, Yashodhara Katju, Manmohan Krishnan etc in it.
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Kyaa paaya duniya ne
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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