Archive for the ‘Songs of 1964’ Category
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is the 1000th guest post in this blog.
Joy Mukherjee and Saira Banu were one of the popular lead pairs of Hindi movies in 1960s. They acted together in ‘Door Ki Aawaz’ (1964), ‘Aao Pyaar Karen’ (1964), ‘Saaz Aur Aawaz’ (1966), ‘Ye Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai’ (1966) and ‘Shagird’ (1967). However, except for ‘Shagird’ (1967), none of their other 4 films could succeed at the box office. On the other hand, during the same period, Joy Mukherjee also paired with Asha Parekh in ‘Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon’ (1963), ‘Ziddi’ (1964) and ‘Love in Tokyo’ (1966) all of which became box office hits. Most of these films were directly or indirectly associated with Mukherjee family and their production company Filmistan and later Filmalaya.
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“Kaise Kahoon” (1964) was a Vrindawan Pictures production. It was directed by Atma Ram. The movie had Biswajeet, Nanda, Om Prakash, Durga Khote, Naaz, Geetanjali, Nimbalkar, Manmohan Krishna, Asit Sen, Rehman etc in it.
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More naina saawan bhaadon
Posted on: February 27, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Many poet-saints were born across India between the 14th to 16th centuries. I recallthe names of a few of them mainly because films were made on their lives. They were Guru Nanak, Sant Kabeer, Sant Gyaneshwar, Sant Tukaram, Narsinh Mehta, Chandidas, Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa, Arunagirinathar, Appiah Dikshitar etc. These saints wrote poems in praise of Gods. Some of them even composed music for their poems. In eastern India, there was a poet-saint Vidyapati Thakur (also known as Maithili Kavi Kokil or simply Vidyapati) who was born in the 15th century in Madhubani, Bihar. He wrote poems in Maithili dialect in praise of Lord Shiva but also wrote love lore on Radha-Krishna in keeping with the popularity of Lord Krishna in this region. Over a period of time, his poems and love lore spread across whole of eastern India. His influence over Bengal was so much that at one point of time, many including me thought that he was a poet-saint belonging to Bengal.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is one more duet by Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle from the film ‘Kaise Kahoon’. The music for this film is composed by S D Burman and lyricist is Shakeel Badayuni. These two have worked together in very few films. I know of only two i.e ‘Benazir’ and this film, both released in the year 1964.
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Husn ki bahaaren liye
Posted on: January 4, 2013
“Benazir” (1964) was produced by Bimal Roy and directed by S Khalil. The movie had Ashok KUmar, Meena Kumari, Shashi Kapoor, Tanuja, Nirupa Roy, Tarun Bose, Lata Sinha, Asit Sen, Paul Mahendra, Durga Khote, Bela Bose etc in it.
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Tu laakhon mein hai ek sanam
Posted on: December 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the long string of ‘Ustad’ films, here is one that is a new entrant for this blog. ‘Birju Ustad’ is a 1964 film from the banner of Movie Miracles, Bombay, directed by Manu Desai. The cast of actors is almost the standard fare – Sheikh Mukhtar and Chandrashekhar are in this movie. The rest of the star cast includes Vijaya Choudhary, Mukri, Uma Dutt, Tuntun, Minoo Mumtaz, Ridkoo, Jyoti Desai, Nazir Kashmiri, Kamal Mohan, Fazal, Karim, Haroon, Ajit, Shamina, E Tarapore, Frooque, Prem Sagar, TN Charlie, Jerry Mason, Appa Khaire, Jeet Waala, Sunanda, Rafia Sultana.
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