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Wo dekhen to unki inaayat
Posted on: February 15, 2012
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my younger days, the name of the film FUNTOOSH (1956) sounded to me a bit bizarre. I had also heard people using this Hinglish lingo as adjectives in different context. I had no occasion to watch this movie but judging (or misjudging) from the name of the film, I thought that it was a comedy movie and the song ‘ye meri topi palat ke aah’ was a pointer to that. It was only later when I heard ‘dukhi man mere’ I felt that the film was of a different genre.
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Raat rangeelee chamken taarey
Posted on: February 14, 2012
Today (14th february) is the birth anniversary of Jaan Nisaar Akhtar. On this occasion, we have discussed quite a few songs penned by him. In this series, here is another lovely song written by him.
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Piya khul ke na nain milaaye re
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music director N Dutta started his career as an independent composer in 1955. That year, two films were released which have music created by him. The films are ‘Marine Drive’ and ‘Milaap’. The musical scores are very impressive in both these films, and that set the pace for N Dutta’s career in subsequent years. Three songs each from both these films are already represented on this blog. But as I reviewed the remaining songs from this film, there is still a few gems contained in these movies that need to be discussed here. In this post, I present the fourth song from ‘Milaap’, that is listed as the debut film for N Dutta.
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Tum miley jo din dhaley
Posted on: February 14, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before I actually came across this film, I would not have believed a film by this name. But in the world of cinema, we simply need to cease being surprised at the film titles.
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Neeli saadi sunahra jumper
Posted on: February 14, 2012
Today (14th february), otherwise known as Valentine’s day, is also the birthday of Jaan Nisaar Akhtar. Jaan Nisaar Akhtar’s name suggests that he may be a shayar who mostly wrote songs on the themes of husn o ishq.
Jaan Nisaar Akhtar could in fact write light hearted songs as well. Here is a fun timepass song from “Rickshawaala” (1960). This song is sung by Asha Bhonsle and Geeta Dutt. N Datta is the music director.
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O gawaalan kyun mera mann
Posted on: February 14, 2012
“Champakali” (1957) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal and the star cast had names viz Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Pran, Mubarak, Shobha Khote, S. L. Puri, Mumtaz Begum, Ram Avtaar etc.
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Main raahi bhatakne waala hoon
Posted on: February 14, 2012
“Baadal” (1951) was a Varma Films Production movie. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty. Starcast of the movie included Premnath, Madhubala, Purnima, Hiralal,Randhir, S Nazir, Agha etc.
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“Aazaad” (1955) was a movie which was produced and directed by S MN S Naidu. He wanted the songs of the movies to be recorded within one month and approached the leading music director of Bombay, viz Naushad to compose the music of this movie (9 songs) within that target period. Naushad snubbed him, saying that it was not possible to create 9 songs in one month. Then Mr Naidu approached other leading music directors and they all refused to take up the assgnment.
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Gham kyun ho jeene waalon ko
Posted on: February 12, 2012
“Shahanshah” (1953) was a G P Production movie. It was directed by Amiya Chaudhary. Star cast of the movie included names e. g. Ranjan, Kamini Kaushal, Shakila, Achala Sachdev, Agha, Mukri, Ramesh Sippy, Cuckoo, K. N. Singh, Neeru etc.
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Man mora baawra
Posted on: February 12, 2012
“Raagini” (1958) was an Ashok Pictures production. It was directed by Rakhan and the starcast had names like Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Jabeen Jalil, Padmini, Nazir Hussain, Achla Sachdev,etc.
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