Archive for the ‘Yearwise breakup of songs’ Category
“Do Dulhe” (1955) was an United F Art production movie. It was directed by K J Mahadevan. The movie had Sajjan, Shyama, Agha, Lalita Pawar, Vanjana, David Abraham, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Kanhaiyalal, B. M. Vyas, Ishwarlal etc in it.
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“Aage Badho” (1947) was directed by Yashwant Pethkar. The movie had Khursheed, Dev Anand, Vasant Thengdi, Kusum Deshpande, Madhukar Apte etc in it.
Five songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is the sixth song from the movie.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The second song in “the flavour of the 30s” is from film DHARMAVEER-1937, sung by the beautiful Ratnaprabha under the music direction of Anna saheb Mainkar.
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Jeena humko raas na aaya
Posted on: September 12, 2013
“Raat Aur Din” (1967) was produced by Jaffer Hussain and directed by Satyen Bose for AAN Production, The movie had Nargis, Feroz Khan, Pradeep Kumar, Leela Mishra, Anwar Hussain, Laxmi Chhaya, K.N.Singh, S.N.Bannerjee, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ranjana Kadam, Parasram, Brahm Bhardwaj, Gulam Sabir, Veena Kumari, AbooBaker, Baby Farida, Sulochana Senior(aka Ruby Mayer), Anoop Kumar, Nur Jahan, Harindranath Chattopadhya, Moolchand, Ravikant etc in it.
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Madhubala Jhavery, a playbck singer who was active in 1950s breathed her last on 11 september 2013 at the age of 76. She was introduced to Hindi movie music lovers by Hansraj Bahl.
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“New Delhi” (1956) was a Delux Films Production. It was directed by Mohan Segal. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Vyjyanti mala, Prabhu Dayal, Dhumal, Radhakrishan, Nazir Hussain, Nana Palsikar, Mumtaz Begum, Shivraj, Sheela Kashmiri, Jabeen Jalil, Mirajkar etc in it.
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We (or at least I) believe that most Hindi songs are picturised unrealistically and they bear little resemblence to real life situations. However, every now and then we come across songs that are picturised so nicely and realistically that they warm the cockles of our heart.
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Duniya pyaari pyaari re
Posted on: September 12, 2013
“Aage Badho” (1947) has been forgotten with time, but this movie deserves to be much better known because it was a movie ahead of its time and dealt with an important social issue.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The Flavour of the 30s-1
Today we start a New Series, titled- ” The Flavour of the 30s”.
The first song in this series is from film BRAMHACHARI-1938. This song is sung by Meenakshi Shirodkar, under the baton of composer Dada Chandekar.
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“Jaali Note” (1960) was an S P Pictures production. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Dev Anand, Madhubala, Helen, Madan Puri, Om Prakash, Bipin Gupta, Kundan etc in it.
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