Archive for the ‘Songs of 1949’ Category
“Taara” (1949) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a New Bombay Theatre Production. It was directed by R D Pareenja. The movie had Shyama, Jawahar Kaul, Kuldip, Majnu, Nayantara, Chand Burque etc in it.
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“Lekh” (1949) was a Liberty Arts Production. It was directed by G Ganesh. Starcast of this by now obscure movie included Motilal, Suraiyya, Anand Pal, Cuckoo, Ishu, Jagirdar, Sitara etc.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Maybe the friends on this blog have given up on me, if my inconsistency of the past few days, some weeks is any evidence. Well yes, the things are kind of busy in life at this time (now why should that be an excuse?) :). Nonetheless, today I do want to write about a wonderful song I came across for the first time last week, and also write about where I am and of the interesting things that have happened today.
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Raam duhaayi hai raam duhaayi hai
Posted on: March 26, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Roshan, a name that immediately brings to mind the iconic qawwalis of ‘Barsaat Ki Raat’ (1960), or the perennial sentimental favorite “Caarvaan Guzar Gayaa, Gubaar Dekhte Rahey” from the film ‘Nai Umar Ki Nai Fasal’ (1965). A master musician who would blend the classical and the folk with graceful ease, Roshan had his training under famous masters such as Ustad Allauddin Khan and Ustad Bundu Khan (saarangi king). After working with All India Radio in Delhi for about a decade, he moved to Bombay in 1948 in search of a career as a music director in films. He got introduced to Kidar Sharma, who was so impressed by his musical acumen that he actually made some changes to his next production. Plans were underway for the film ‘Neki Aur Badi’, and Snehal Bhatkar was already assigned the music direction responsibility. After meeting with Roshan, Kidar Sharma had a talk with Snehal Bhatkar, who agreed to let Roshan handle the music department. That is how the debut break came Roshan’s way.
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Ghabra ke jo ham sar ko
Posted on: March 20, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari Dubey (1924 – 20/03/2000), popularly known as Rajkumari, was one of the earliest playback singers who dominated playback singing in the 40s. During my younger days, I used to identify her with a popular song ‘sun bairi balam sach bol re’ from the film BAAWRE NAIN (1952). It was her interview on Doordarshan in the 80s and some other video clips of her performances that made me to search for more of her songs. I found that she was not only an accomplished singer but also a ‘zinda dil’ (lively) person who zest for life was not dampened by her adverse financial condition in her later life.
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Muhabbat hamaari zamaana hamaara
Posted on: March 7, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The starcast of the movie had names like Suresh, Geeta Bali, Madhubala, Jayant, Shyam Kumar, Amar, Nawab, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949), a Tajmahal Pictures Production, was directed by M Ehsan. Satcast included names like Shyam, Naseem Bano,Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949) was a Tajmahal pictures presentation. This movie was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names viz. Shyam, Naseem Bano,Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie which is today fondly remembered as the movie that helped Rafi break into the big league with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. Till then, Rafi’s style of singing had few takers in the Hindi movie music and with this movie it became the new style of singing. It was a paradigm shift which few people at that time may have realised. In fact the management term “Paradigm Shift” itself was not coined at that time.
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Kaise baje dil ke sitaar
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is a Taj Mahal Pictures presentation. It was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Naseem, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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