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Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category


People intersted in old Hindi movie music often come across names that may confuse people. For instance, there are people who confuse between Naushad and Nashaad. Then there are people (including some who are regarded as knowledgeable by others as well as by themselves) who think that Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad are one and the same ! A few years back, I was listening to an audiocast (I think the actual tem used in different) of a programme on old songs. The presenter presented a song from “Shaheed, viz. Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawaan shaheed ho (Shaheed) . After the song, the presenter informed the listeners that the music of this song was compose by Ghulma Haider, and that music lovers are awrae of this music director for his compositions in “Paakeeza” (1972). After listening to this sentence, I lost all respect for the knowledge of the presenter about old Hindi movies.
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“My Love” (1970) was an Atool Arts production movie. It was produced and directed by S Sukhdev. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Laxmi Chhaaya, Azra, Madan Puri, Rajindernath, Nirupa Roy, Jayant, Raj Mehra, Ifthikar, Sulochana Chatterjee, Manorama, Pinchoo Kapoor, Prayag Raj, Mustafa, Jerry, Miss.Caron Leslie etc in it.
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“Tower House” (1962) was a Disha Productions movie. It was produced by J C Malhotra and directed by N A Ansari. The movie had Ajeet, Shakeela, N A Ansari, Bhagwan, Nazima, Madhumati, Nilofar, Pratima Devi, S. N. Banerjee, Rajan Kapoor, Loutan, Shukla, Champak, Raaj Rani, Raj Kumar, Maqbool, Bakshi, Bihari etc in it.
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“Aaj aur Kal” (1963) was produced and directed by Vasant Joglekar under the banner of Panchdeep Chitra. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Tanuja, Nanda, Agha, Sudesh Kumar, Dhumal, Rohit, Deven Verma, Kusum Deshpande, Lalbahadur, Ravikannt, Rajkumar, Shah, Abdul, Nawab, Uma Khosla etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.

‘Isi ka naam duniya hai’ (1962) is a film starring Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Mehmood & Sahira etc. A few songs of this movie that I have found on youtube are all picturised on Mehmood and Sahira. Only one song from this film is posted in the blog. For the second song from this movie, I had a choice among three Mehmood songs that I have seen. With careful consideration, I decided on this party song, which is also a piano song.
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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.

During 1960-70, Lata Mangeshkar had sung some beautiful non-filmy ghazals. Two of these NFS, viz. dahar mein naqsh-e-wafaa and aankh se aankh milaata hai koi have already been covered in the blog. These ghazals were composed by Faiyyaz Shaukat and K Mahavir respectively. In 1969, a LP of her non-filmy ghazals of Mirza Ghalib composed by her brother Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar was released.
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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 the Hindu mythology, Gandharvas are stated to be the male heavenly spirit and in the context of music, the term is used for a highly skilled vocalist. Maharashtra had the privilege of having four ‘Gandharvas’. First, Sawai Gandharva (real name : Rambahu Kundgolkar – 19/01/1886 – 12/09/1952). He was a popular Hindustani classical vocalist and Marathi stage actor-singer. He was the first disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan of Kirana gharana. One of the disciples of Sawai Gandharva was Pandit Bhimsen Joshi who later started the annual Sawai Gandharva Festival at Pune in the memory of his guru.
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“Saawan Ki Ghata” (1966) was a Shakti Films Production. It was produced and directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Mumtaz, Pran, Madan Puri, Mridula Rani, JeevanKala, Madhumati, Sajjan, Mohan Choti, S.N.Bannerjee, Padma Khanna, Kundan, Sunder, Jeevan, Master Anwar, Neelam, Ratan Gaurang, Mauji Singh, Karan Singh, Prakash Lahoti, Baby Kavita Oberoi etc in it.
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