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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The year is 1993. It is twenty five years now that the Dada Saheb Phalke award has been instituted. For the first time after twenty years of its inception, this prestigious award that represents a lifetime of significant contribution to the Indian cinema, is announced for a lyricist. And the recipient – Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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O bhoolnewaale
Posted on: May 23, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today’s song is the FIRST NFS sung by Kishore Kumar on this Blog. This was written by Kewal Sharma and the music was by Ramesh Gupta-who was a wellknown lyricist.
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Pyaar jataa ke apna bana ke
Posted on: May 23, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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The Voice of Mukesh #18
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The year of 1947 was the most prolific yet for Mukesh. Having started his singing career for Hindi films in 1941, in the six years from 1941 to 1946, he had sung a total of 21 songs in eleven films. Of these, seven are solos and fourteen are duets. As far as incremental score is concerned, the years 1945 and 1946 were very good in comparison to the years from 1941 to 1944.
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“Sehra” (1948) is an obscure movie and hardly any information is available online about this movie. One song from this movie has been discussed in the past. Our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared some rare information about this movie at that time. Here is what he has to say about this movie:-
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Main reh gayi ankhiyaan malti re
Posted on: May 20, 2013
“Roomaal” (1949) was a Varuna Films Production movie. It was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Rehman, Jairaj, Nargis, Jilloo Maa, Cuckoo, Badri Prasad, Jeevan, Majnu, Mukesh etc in it.
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Nainon mein bhar liya neer
Posted on: May 19, 2013
“Chakori” (1949) was a Ramesh Pictures Production. It was directed by Ramnarayan Dubey. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Jaiwant, Cuckoo, Om Prakash, , Manorama, Randhir etc in it.
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Main naagan hoon
Posted on: May 15, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Voice of Mukesh #17
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Ah, finally. I have with me now, the song from the 1946 film ‘Durbaan’ that has been eluding me so far. Graciously and thankfully sent to me by another collector friend. Readers will recall that this is the one song from 1946, still waiting to be posted, as we traverse the early years of Mukesh’s career. As per records, by the end of 1946, Mukesh had sung 21 songs in eleven films (starting from 1941).
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Aaoge na saajan aaoge na
Posted on: May 9, 2013
“Jaan Pehchaan” (1950) was an United Technicians Production. It was directed by Fali Mistry. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Dulari, Amar, Mukri etc in it.
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Dukh se bhara hua hai dil
Posted on: May 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In Hindi film industry, there were many artists – actors, playback singers, lyricists and music directors who after starting their careers soon faded into oblivion as they could not get on a firm footing in the industry. But there were some who remained with the film industry for a long time even though success eluded them. One of such artists was Shankar Dasgupta, playback singer and music director.
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