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Rulaa kar chal diye ik din
Posted on: December 9, 2010
Hemant Kumar was one of those all rounders who was equally competent in singing as well as composing songs. And though he was a music director, he was not averse to singing under the music direction of others. That way, he is different from other music directors, who mostly sang only under their own music direction. Hemant Kumar, on the other hand , sang under the direction of several leading music directors of those days.
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music was enriched not only by the well known music directors, but also by the lesser known names. Many of these lesser known music directors deserved much more recognition and opportunities than what they ultimately ended up with.
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“Albela” (1951) was the ultimate highmark in the career of Bhagwan. This movie was a box office success and a musical extravaganza.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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I was aware of a movie called “Do Phool” (1973) but it now I have come to know that there was another movie of this name in 1958. This movie “Do Phool”(1958) is far more obscure that its 1973 namesake. This movie was obviously a B grade movie with no saleable stars in it.
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When I began this blog, I discussed songs at the rate of one song per day. Soon I began to discuss more songs every day. With time, I created pages to keep the list of songs in some order. Now there are pages that list songs by movie, by music director as well as by year.
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I am a big fan of Ravi. He is perhaps the only music director who was around when the golden era of Hindi movie music began to the time this era was finally gone for ever. His career began as a chorus singer in late 1940s,then he became assistant to Hemant Kumar (he was his assistant in “Naagin” (1954)) and then he became an independent music director with “Vachan” (1955). From then on till 1980s, he composed songs, many of which became so popular that they ended up becoming iconic songs. I in fact describe Ravi as a composer of iconic songs.
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When Dilip Kumar began his career as a lead actor in Hindi movies, Talat Mehmood gave playback for him. It was from mid 1950s onwards that Rafi became his (and for that matter every one’s) voice.
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I keep confusing among movies with titles like “Ek Jhalak”, “Ek Nazar” ,”Ek Saal” etc. To add to my confusion, there are more than one movie with the same title. There have been at least two movies called “Ek Nazar”.
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