Archive for the ‘Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970)’ Category
Sapne hain sapne kab huye apne
Posted on: March 10, 2012
“Nayi Roshni” (1967) was a Vasu Films production. It was produced by Vasu Menon and directed by C V Sridhar. Starcast had names like Ashok kumar, Sulochana Latkar, Raaj Kumar,Mala Sinha, Tanuja, Biswajeet, Jyotilaxmi, SaileshKumar, Pahadi Sanyal, Asit Sen, Mahendra, Pratima Devi, Chaman Puri, Anwar Hussain, Bhanumati, Aruna Irani etc.
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The last few days have seen not one but two artists of the golden era departing from our midst. Music director Ravi left us one day before Holi and Joy Mujherji one day after holi. We, who in this blog discuss the songs of the golden era on a daily basis, are so familiar with the artists involved in these songs that they feel like close acquaintances. So any living artist breathing his/her last comes as a shock to us, even when it is well known that death is inevitable for everyone.
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Rangeen fizaa hai
Posted on: March 10, 2012
“Bahu Beti” (1965) was produced by Shatrujit Paul and directed by T Prakashrao. The movie had Joy Mukherjee, Mala Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Mumtaz, Dhumal, Achala Sachdev, Mukri, Ashish Kumar, Ratnamala, Chaman Puri, Anoop Kumar, Neelam, Shah, Brahm Bhardwaj etc in it.
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Mere dil ko jiski talaash thhi
Posted on: March 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There are some songs which I feel are better heard than watched. The evergreen song “aapki nazron ne samjha pyar ke kaabil mujhe” was one of my favourites and I had pinned great hopes on its video clip. I was disappointed the moment I watched the video clip of this song. Even now whenever I listen to this song on the audio clip, Darmendra’s expressionless face comes before my eyes which act as a speed breaker in the smooth flow of an otherwise melodious song.
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He rom rom mein basne waale raam
Posted on: March 9, 2012
Music of “Neelkamal” (1968) has got to be one of the greatest music ever created for a Hindi movie. So much so that our own Raja began to imagine that the movie must be equally great. He waited three decades to watch the movie, but was extremely disappointed when he finally got to watch the movie.
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Ravi made his debut as a music director in 1955 and he composed music for over 110 Hindi movies during his long and successful career. Assuming that there were 8 songs on an average in each of his movies, he has composed some 900 sings in his Hindi movie career as a music director.
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Waqt se din aur raat
Posted on: March 9, 2012
“Waqt” (1965) was a movie that like most B R Chopra movies rewrote the rules of the game. This movie was a multistarrer movie at a time when this term was not even coined. This term as well as the concept would be made use of in Hindi movies ten years later in “Sholay” (1975) and other movies.
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Jeene ka agar andaaz aaye
Posted on: March 8, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ravi’s debut film was Vachan (1955) but I first came to know about him through the songs of Chaudhvin Ka Chaand) (1960). He was music director for many successful films like Gumrah (1963), Waqt (1965), Khandaan (1965) Do Badan (1965), Kaajal(1965), Phool Aur Patthar (1966), Aankhen (1968) to quote a few. He was one of the popular music directors of Hindi films produced in the South. He wrote the popular song ‘cat mane billi’ for Dilli Ka Thug (1958). From 70s onwards, his musical assignments started declining and by later part of 80s, he was almost retired from the Hindi film industry. With his demise, we have lost one more veteran music director of the golden era of Hindi filmsongs.
May his soul rest in peace.
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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 my earlier stage of baptism to Hindi film songs of the golden era, whenever I came across some new songs I liked, I would want to know the name of the film, singers and themusic directors ( in that order) of the concerned songs. I never enquired about who wrote these likeable songs. One song that made me to know the name of the lyricist was “main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya” from HUM DONO(1961). This song virtually introduced me to a great Urdu poet and lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi. I feel shy to reveal here that though I liked those iconic songs of PYAASA (1957) but that did not trigger my brain to enquire as to who wrote those melancholic and the soul searching songs. As I came to know later, those songs were written by Sahir Ludhianvi.
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“Suhaana Safar” (1970) is an obscure movie despite being a “recent” movie by the standards of this blog :). The movie was produced by R C Kumar and directed by Vijay. Its starcast had Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, David Abraham, Lalita Pawar, K. N. Singh, Om Prakash, Tiwari, Bhagwan, Sunder, Manmohan Krishna, Leela Misra, Randhir, Mukri, Keshto Mukherjee etc in it. Now we know why the movie was obscure despite being a recent movie :).
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