Archive for the ‘Translation by Sudhir’ Category
Guzre hain aaj ishq mein
Posted on: December 10, 2011
“Dil Diya Dard Liya” (1966) is one of the first “old” movies that I became aware of as a pre teen kid, and my impression about old movies being melancholic stuff was mainly based on this movie, its songs and also its title.
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- In: "Aankh" song | Aansoo song | Feelings of heart | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Melancholic song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1964 | Talat Mehmood solo | Talat Mehmood songs | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Most movies of the olden days had great music. In fact, music served as a major attraction for movie goers. There were many movies that became hits mainly because of the music.
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Dil ye kyaa cheez hai
Posted on: December 5, 2011
“Baazi” (1951) was one of the earliest movies produced by Navketan, and it was a pathbreaking movie in more ways than one. This movie paved the way for crime thrillers that became and remained a popular genre of Hindi movies throughout 1950s.
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When I take a look at the list of movies whose songs have figured in this blog, I find that just over 1800 movies are represented in the blog. Most of these movies date from 1930s upto 1980s, during which time about 5600 Hindi movies got censors certificate. So roughly speaking about one third of all released movies till 1980s are represented in this blog.
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It was on 16th november 1917 that Chitragupta Srivastava was born in Bihar. He went to Bombay and earned fame as music director Chitragupta. He preferred to keep a low profile and was happy to compose for B grade movies, where he composed absolutely A grade music. A grade movie makers would have happily worked with Chitragupta if only Chitragupta had gone and met them. For instance, the first time that Chitragupta met with Raj Kapoor was in 1980s, when his music director sons Anand and Milind introduced him to raj Kapoor at a function. And Raj Kapoor told him that he would have definitely used him as a music director in his movies if only he had met him.
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- In: Artist century song in blog | Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Guest posts | Multiple version song | Post by Raja | Post by Sudhir | qawwali | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1958 | Thousandth song for the blog | Thousandth song in the blog | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This is the 5000th song writeup for the blog. This writeup is written by not one or two, but three enthusiasts of Hindi movie music , namely Raja, Sudhir as well as by me.
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Raja’s writeup
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Every now and then, we lovers of this blog like to get together in this space and celebrate a milestone or landmark that this blog has achieved.
It may be a landmark to celebrate a particular artist’s hundredth (or even thousandth) song on this blog. Or it may be a landmark to celebrate yet another “century” on the blog song-count itself.
Recently, as we have now got multiple contributors to this blog, we have also celebrated “centuries” by contributors.
Each one of these milestones always gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
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Dheere chalaao zaraa
Posted on: November 10, 2011
“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) is va Filmyug Presentation. The movie was directed by Mohan Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Vyjyantimala, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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Ek ladki bheegi bhaagi se
Posted on: November 10, 2011
- In: Actor-Singer song | Car Repair Garage Song | Car song | Devnagri script lyrics by Sudhir | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics contributed by readers | Rain song | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1958 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Chalti Ka naam Gaadi” (1958) was a brainchild of Kishore Kumar. Legend has it that Kishore Kumar produced this movie to get over his tax problems. He wanted to produce a movie that he hoped would flop at the box office and that would enable him to balance his accounts for income tax purposes. He gave away the rights of this movie to his secretary Anoop Sharma who is credited as the Producer of this movie. The movie was directed by Satyen Bose and the movie included the three Ganguly brothers namely Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar as well as the would be wife of Kishore Kumar namely Madhubala.
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Ho kaisi khushi ki hai raat
Posted on: November 10, 2011
“Nagina”(1951) was a Pancholi Productions movie and it was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Nasir Khan, Nutan, Gope, Hiralal, Mohana, Goldstein (?), Shamlal, Bipin Gupta etc in it.
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