Archive for the ‘Songs of 1948’ Category
Kyun dil mein mere basey ho
Posted on: January 11, 2013
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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 best way to write about a poet is to write about his works, his poetry. But when we come to a poet of the stature of Rajinder Krishan, it becomes a very difficult task to write about his poetry. One simply does not know where to start. The body of work is enormous, and the number of pleasing heart stealers is so numerous, that just a sample list of favorites will go beyond a reasonable length for a write up. And no matter how representative one makes this sampler list, readers and friends will come up with wonderful gems of A grade quality that must be included.
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Dekho dekho sajan tum na aana
Posted on: December 31, 2012
“Meri Kahaani” (1948) was a Super Team Federal Productions movie. It was directed by Keki Mistry. The movie had Surendra, Munawwar Sultana, Pratima Devi, Ramesh Sinha, Murad, Bhudo Advani etc in it.
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Ek bholi bhaali gori ne
Posted on: December 19, 2012
- In: Biography of artists | Biography of Music Directors | Feelings of heart | G M Durrani solo | G M Durrani song | Guest posts | Light hearted song | Post by Arunkumar Deshmukh | Rare song | Series of articles | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948 | Unknown composers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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.
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Unknown composers Composer 3-Shridhar Parsekar
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Hindi film music is like an ocean. As many rivers merge into the ocean at various stages, regional music from various parts of India is assimilated in HFM(Hindi Film Music). Initially it was the Marathi stage/natya sangeet and Parsee theatre which influenced HFM. In the East, it was Rabindra sangeet and Nazrul Geete thate made the basis of film songs. In the Lahore centre it was the Punjabi style after Khazanchi-1941.
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Kaali ghataaon jaao
Posted on: December 17, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Unknown composers Article 1- Ramprasad Sharma
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Film Industry is one industry which grew fery fast. Firstly, there was no competition (except from AIR) for entertainment and secondly, joining this industry needed no special qualifications.
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“Nazrana” (1948) was an unreleased movie and hardly any information was available about this movie online. Not any longer. Our own beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh now has some invaluable information about this movie. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Here is a song about which very little is known. This song is sung by Rafi and it is mentioned by a few YT uploaders that this song is from an unreleased movie of 1940s called “Nazrana”. Apparently C Ramchandra composed the music for this song.
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Ek nazar wo yaad hai unki
Posted on: November 25, 2012
Today (25 november) is the birth anniversary of Surinder Kaur (25 november 1929- 15 june 2006), the legendary singer of Punjab who is popularly known as the nightingale of Punjab.
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Do vida do praan mujhko
Posted on: November 15, 2012
“Adalat” (1948) was a Mangal Pictures Production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Baburao Pendharkar, Shalini Devi, Jog Madgulkar, Sudha Apte, Saroj Borkar etc in it.
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“Anokha Pyaar” (1948) was an Ambica Films Production. It was directed by M I Dharmsey. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Nargis, Nalini Jaywant, Mukri, Sheikh Mukhtar etc in it.
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Seeing that this blog has by now notched up over 6800 songs, it is natural that we tend to touch a few blog related milestones quite frequently.
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