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Dil jawaan hai aarzoo jawaan
Posted on: January 6, 2012
- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Multiple version song | Post by Sadanand Kamath | Song based on Western music | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Talat Mehmood Asha Bhonsle duet | Talat Mehmood solo | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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.
January 6th is the death anniversary of Jaidev Verma, known as Jaidev in Hindi film world. He was one of those unlucky music directors who, despite being extremely talented, did not make it to the top in Bollywood. He had given hit songs in Hum Dono (1961), Kinaare Kinaare (1963), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963), Reshma Aur Shera (1972) , Gaman (1979) and many more. He is the only music director who won National Award for best music direction three times for Hindi films – Reshma Aur Sehra, Gaman and Ankahee.
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Most Hindi movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that are released for public view and these songs figure in these movies.
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Dheere se aa jaa ri ankhiyan mein
Posted on: January 5, 2012
- In: "Aankh" song | C Ramchandra solo songs as a singer | C Ramchandra songs as a singer | Lata solo | Lata song | lullaby | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Male lullaby | Multiple version song | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1951 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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One of the much loved genre of songs in Hindi movies is lullaby. There have been some memorable lullabies in Hindi movies.
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Jeewan ki beena ka taar boley
Posted on: January 4, 2012
Today (4th january) seems to be an important day for Hindi movies, seeing that several artists were either born on this day or they expired on this day.
Nirupa Roy, who in the mind of most moviegoers of my generation was immortalised as the long suffering mother of the hero (typically Amitabh Bachchan), was born on 4th january.
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“Sheroo” (1957) is an S P Productions movie. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Anoop Kumar, Rashid Khan etc in it.
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Shaam suhaanee nadee ke kinaarey
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Nishaan Danka” (1952) is a movie that few people may be aware of. This movie was a Vikas Prodctions presentation. It was directed by Jayant Desai. The star cast of the movie was quintessentially B grade, consisting of Ranjan, Shyama,Jeevan, Baby Tabassum etc.
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Ye bahaaron ka samaa
Posted on: December 30, 2011
Datta Naik was born in Goa, which was then a Portuguese colony. He came to Bombay to try his luck as a music director. Initially he acted as an assistant to S D Burman before starting out as an independent music director. He changed his name to N Datta by re ordering the sequence of his name.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mehlon Ke Khwaab (1960) is a romantic comedy cum chor-police story produced by Madhubala herself. The film is directed by Haider and the star cast is notable and includes Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar, Chanchal, Pran, KN Singh, Cuckoo, Om Prakash, Sulochana Chatterjee, Leela Chitnis, Ram Avtaar, Anoop Sharma, Khataanaa, Balam, Rashid Khan, Parvin Paul, Haroon, Daraaz, Ravi Kant, Uma Dutt, Satish Batra, Ram Lal, Sham Lal etc. Just to add a bit of trivia for those who may not know, Chanchal is the real life sister of Madhubala. The music composition is by S Mohinder. The film boasts of seven very melodious tunes, with lyrics penned by three poets viz., Raja Mehndi Ali Khan, Raahil Gorakhpuri and Anand Bakshi.
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See le zubaan
Posted on: December 28, 2011
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) was a Navketan production movie. It was directed by Vijay Anand. The star cast had names like Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Lalita Pawar, Rashid Khan, Jeevan, Shashikala, Madan Puri, M. A. Latif, Helen, Krishan Dhawan, Jagdish Raaj, Nazir Kashmiri, Bhagan Sinha, Tuntun, Prem Prakash etc.
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