Archive for the ‘Songs of 1964’ Category
“Baaghi” (1964) was a Mukul Movies production. It was directed by Ram Dayal. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Leela Naidu, Helen, Mumtaz, Jeevan, Veena, Ulhas, Naaz, Vijaya Choudhry, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Gagan ke chanda na poochh hamse
Posted on: July 24, 2012
The month of July is a bonanza as far as anniversaries of film personalities are concerned. Today (24 july) is the birthday of Manoj Kumar.
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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.
July 14th is the 37th death anniversary of the great maestro Madan Mohan ( 25/06/1924 – 14/07/1975). An artillery man in the army during the second world war, he aspired to become an actor in the Hindi film industry. After the end of second world war, he quit army and came to Bombay (Mumbai). He did act in a few films like ‘Shaheed’ (1948) but the almighty seemed to have already decided him to be a music director. His father, Rai Bahadur Chunnilal Kohli was a big name in the Hindi film industry ( being partner in Bombay Talkies and later Filmistan) in the 40s. But he was against his son joining the film industry. As a result, Madan Mohan had to struggle a lot to get an entry into Hindi film industry of his own efforts. He started his career as an assistant to music directors Shyam Sundar and S D Burman sometime in the late 40s.
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Today (12th july) is the death anniversary of Rajendra Kumar. On this occasion, I have several songs to chose from, time permitting.
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Mere laadlon tum phoolo phalo
Posted on: July 7, 2012
“Sant Gyaneshwar” (1964) was one of the B grade movies that rode on the back of their A grade music to attract movie lovers to the movie hall and succeed at the box office. This movie was a Ranglok pictures presentation. It was produced by Ramraj Nahta and directed by Manikbhai Vyas. The movie had Sudhir Kumar, Surekha, Babloo, Jeevan, Sulochana Latkar, Shahu Modak, Asit Sen, Madhumati, Dev Kumar, Ulhas, Narmada Shankar, Meena etc in it.
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Aa tu aa zara dil mein aa
Posted on: July 6, 2012
“Phoolon Ki Sez”(1964) was an Anjali pictures production. It was directed by Inder Raj Anand. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Vyjyantimala, Nirupa Roy, Shobha Khote, Kanhaiyalal, Mukri,Lalita Pawar, Mehmood etc in it.
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Ab to aisa lagta hai
Posted on: July 5, 2012
“Roopsundari” (1964) as the name suggests was a mythological movie produced on a B grade budget.
Like most B grade movies of those days, the music was A grade.
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Aa jaa jaan e jaan
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne” (1964) was produced and directed by V Shantaram. This movie introduced Rajshree (daughter of V Shantaram) alongwith Jeetendra. The movie also had Surendra Bharati, Nana Palsikar, K. Date, C. H. Atma, Babloo etc in it.
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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Bol Radha bol sangam hoga ke nahin
Posted on: June 23, 2012
Here is a song that firmly belongs to the category of “How come this song was not discussed before ! ” This song is the well known title song of “Sangam”- namely “Bol Radha bol sangam hoga ke nahin”.
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