Archive for the ‘Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950)’ Category
Naiyya dheere dheere jaana
Posted on: April 6, 2013
Sometimes some producers get so obsessed with a story that they devote a good portion of their career to make a movie on that story. For instance, K Asif had planned “Mughal e Azam” as early as 1940s itself and it took him nearly two decades of time and enormous resources to finally bring his dream project to fruition in 1960 with different lead actors than what was originally planned. Likewise, Kamal Amrohi’s “Pakeezaa” was in the making for a decade or more before it finally got completed and released in 1972. By that time the lead actress and the music director of the movie were no longer around.
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Is patange ki haqeeqat
Posted on: April 5, 2013
“Thhes” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shashikala, Himmat Rai, Purnima, Maruti, Kamal Mehra, Gyani etc in it.
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Ye bura kiya jo saaf saaf keh diya
Posted on: April 5, 2013
“Suhaagraat” (1948) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Begam Para, Geeta Bali, Maruti etc in it.
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Ghadi ghadi poochho na jee
Posted on: April 4, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Anil Biswas seemed to be one of the most admired personalities among the Hindi film actors, singers and poets. It was said that his house used to be full of film personalities most of the time.He stayed in Dadar At that time which was a central point for visiting most of the studios such as Ranjit Studios, Famous Studios, Sri Sound Studios, Jyoti Studios etc. Some times I feel that his house was used for what is called in today’s parlance as a ‘networking’ place. As it was often said, music directors those days held each other in high esteem and did not mind sharing information of mutual interest. I think that in the initial stage of Lata Mangeshkar’s career, apart from her beautiful voice, Anil Biswas had a major share in shaping her playback singing career along with Master Ghulam Haider. Apart from grooming her in attaining perfection in playback singing, he introduced her to Raj Kapoor for songs in ‘Barsaat’ (1949) which was her first collaboration with Raj Kapoor. He may have probably introduced her to some more producers and music directors in the late 40s.
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Chhup chhup ke teer chalaaye na koi
Posted on: April 4, 2013
“Thhes” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shashikala, Himmat Rai, Purnima, Maruti, Kamal Mehra, Gyani etc in it.
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Baaje mori paayal thhunnak thhunnak
Posted on: April 4, 2013
“Suhaagraat” (1948) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Begam Para, Geeta Bali, Maruti etc in it.
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Jawaani agar haaye
Posted on: April 4, 2013
“Neelkamal” (1947) was directed by Kidar Sharma. He had signed up Raj Kapoor, then working as his third assistant (viz clap boy) as the hero of this movie. When Raj Kapoor enquired which heroine was being signed up opposite him, Kidar Sharma asked him if he had any specific choice. Raj Kapoor named Madhubala who was then signed up for the movie.
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Rut hai suhaani
Posted on: April 3, 2013
“Thhes” (1949) was an Oriental Pictures presentation. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Shashikala, Himmat Rai, Purnima, Maruti, Kamal Mehra, Gyani etc in it.
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Aayi milan ki bahaar re
Posted on: April 2, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The admirers of both Anil Biswas and Mohammed Rafi are intrigued by the fact that Anil Biswas collaborated with Mohammed Rafi for far less number of songs – probably 10 in numbers. One possible reason could be that when Mohammed Rafi ‘s career as a playback singer was picking up, Anil Biswas’s career had already reached the zenith. During this period, he had Mukesh and Talat Mehmood for playback singing who were preferred over Mohammed Rafi by most of the then lead actors like Dilip Kumar.
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