Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
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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Ae husn pari chehra
Posted on: March 26, 2013
“Aman” (1967) was an EmKay production movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh etc in it.
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Aaj hai pyaar ka faisla ae sanam
Posted on: March 26, 2013
“Leader” (1964) was a Mukherji Film Syndicate production. It was directed by Ram Mukherji. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Jagdish Sethi, Madhumati, Jayant, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Sapru, Hiralal, Amar, Jankidas, P Kailash, Leela Misra, Merlyn etc in it.
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“Aman” (1967) was an Emkay productions movie. It was produced and directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Saira Bano, Chetan Anand, Om Prakash, Balraj Sahni, Chand Usmani, Sajjan, Sunder, Brahm Bhardwaj, Daya Devi, Baby Kavita, Suresh etc in it.
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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.
If I were to ask the question ‘what was the common between Shailendra, Jaan Nisar Akhtar and Nyay Sharma’, the obvious answer is that they were lyricists for Hindi film songs during the golden era of Hindi film music. There is one more commonality between them. All of them tried their hands in producing a Hindi film in the 1960s which resulted in great financial strains on them from which they did not fully recover. In fact, after the release of their films, their careers as lyricist was on the downhill and in case of Shailendra, it ended with his untimely death.
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“Naya Kanoon” (1965) was a Manchanda production movie. It was directed by R C Talwar. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Bharat Bhushan, Vyjyantimala, Purnima, Nishi, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Badri Prasad, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Waah re dildaar baanke
Posted on: March 24, 2013
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) was a Bindu Kala Mandir Production. It was produced by B D Kapoor and directed by K Mishra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Ragini, Jayashree Gadkar, Jeevan, Agha, Anwar Hussain, Sajjan, Kamal Mehra, Asit Sen, Kumar, Naazi, Madhumati, Kundan, Samson, Mirza Musharraf, Khurshid, W M Khan, Mirajkar, Mansaram, Tiger, Ameen Sayani, Vishi etc in it.
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