Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contribuor to this blog.
In India people are too quick to categorise communities. For example, they believe that every Marwadi must be Kanjoosh(stingy), every Gujrati must be a businessman, all Kashmiri women must be beautiful. All Parsees must be eccentric or all Sardarjees must be either in Army/ a carpenter or a Truck driver.
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Taaron ki aankhon ka taara tu
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
PHOOLON KI SEJ (1964) was produced by the maestro P Adinarayana Rao under the banner of Anjali Pictures. The film was based on a novel ‘Andhere Chiraag’ written by Gulshan Nanda and directed by Inder Raj Anand who also wrote screen play and dialogues for the film. The star cast included Ashok Kumar, Vyjayntimala, Manoj Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Mehmood, Shubha Khote, Anjali Devi, Lalita Pawar, Kanhaiyalal, Mukri etc. All the songs of the film were written by Hasrat Jaipuri and set to music by P Adinarayana Rao. Orchestration of the songs was done by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
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Dil hai ke dhadakta rehta hai
Posted on: April 4, 2013
“Jahaan Pyaar Miley””(1969) was produced and directed by Lekhraj Tandon. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Anjali Kadam, Kumari Naaz, Helen, Nazir Hussain, Nadira, Jeevan, Zeb Rehman etc in it.
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Phool hai bahaaron ka
Posted on: April 3, 2013
Recently four physics students of University of Leicester, UK carried out a study in British Parliament and found out that the hot air produced by the 650 parliamentarians in the house of commons generated 10.34 kW of energy, which if properly harnessed can light up as many as 1000 energy efficient bulbs or 200 conventional bulbs. This report was published under the title “Hot Air in the house of Commons”.
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Raj Kapoor ki neeli aankhen
Posted on: April 2, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
pujaari husn ka hoon main
na deewaana jawaani ka
I heard these lines in the inimitable voice of Mohammed Rafi yesterday on Radio Rafi. I was looking for details regarding this song in the Database at mohdrafi.com, so not paying much attention to the radio playing. As the words of the poem registered, it caught my attention. I managed to catch the last line in the audio clip “pujaari husn ka hoon main”.
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Aankh milaaye na muskuraaye na
Posted on: April 2, 2013
Everyone is aware that a movie called “Milan” was released in 1967. What is less known is that the same year also saw a movie called “Milan Ki Raat” as well. Like “Milan” (1967), this movie too had the same lyricist and the same music director. 🙂
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Jab pyaar kiya to marna kyun
Posted on: April 2, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Films can be classified on the basis of many points. For example, B&W and colour films, Original or copied film, on the basis of Language or country, with songs or without songs etc.(My friend says there can be only one classification- Good or Bad films ! )
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Chaand tanha hai aasmaan tanha
Posted on: March 31, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A remembrance of today that must include her own expressions. Mahajabeen was an emotional personality, and as with all emotional people, there is an expression of the artist in ways more than one. A poetess in her own right, she is known to have been writing couplets and ghazals from a very young age. And when her life started on downhill glide, it was the drink that became a faithful companion, and it was her pen that became an outlet for her to tell the world, about her sorrows and her wounds.
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Jaane chaman shola badan
Posted on: March 29, 2013
“Gumnaam” (1965), based on Agatha Christie’s novel, “And then there were none”, was a Ptithvi Pictures production movie. It was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Raja Nawathe. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Dhumal, Mehmood, Helen, Madan Puri, Tarun Bose, Manmohan, Naina, Laxmi Chhaya, Hiralal etc in it.
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