Archive for the ‘Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980)’ Category
Ae jaan e wafaa aisa bhi kyaa
Posted on: July 9, 2011
“Chhaliyaa” (1960) is a well known movie. In comparison, few people have heard of “Chhaliyaa” (1973). This movie had Navin Nischol, and an ageing Nanda, and the movie failed to achieve any great success at the box office.
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When the lyrics and details of this song were sent to me by Prakashchandra,I thought that he must have made a mistake as I have definitely posted this well known Rafi song in the blog. On checking, I found that I had not discussed this song, rather I had discussed the other well known song from this movie sung by Mukesh (Main dhoondhta hoon jinko ).
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“Mausam” (1975) is a movie that is known as much for the acting of Sanjeev Kumar and Sharmila Tagore as for its music. Unfortunately Madan Mohan, the music director of the movie was not alive to see the success of this movie. For much of his life, movies embellished by his wonderful songs would bite the dust as the box office, and ironically, the movies released after his death, viz “Mausam” (1975) and “Laila Majnu” (1976) turned out to be hit movies riding on the music of these movies.
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Chanda ki kirnon se lipti hawaayen
Posted on: July 6, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusisat of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The enticement of the tinsel world of films has fostered many real life stories of people from all walks of life giving up their professions and jobs, with an aspiration to make it a success in the film world. The story of the famous composer Chitragupt (full name Chitragupt Stivastava) is also of this kind. Born in 1917 in Karmaini (Chhapra District), Bihar, Chitragupt did a double MA in Economics and Journalism, and was working as a lecturer in Patna. In the early 40s, he gave it all up and came to Bombay with a dream to make it big, not as an actor, but as a singer and music director. He worked as an assistant with SN Tripathi, who became his mentor. In 1946, Chitragupt got his first independent assignment as a composer for the movie Toofan Queen. Not a success on the box office, the film did nothing much to help progress Chitragupt’s career. He would do another 20 odd films between 1946 and 1952, before coming into his own in the early 1950s. The 1952 film Sindbad the Sailor, though not a huge success in itself, its music was very successful. In 1955, SD Burman recommended him to the AVM studios (in Madras), which started an association that lasted for many years. During this time, he composed music for many hit films from AVM viz., Mein Bhi Ladki Hoon, Barkha, Mein Chup Rahoongi, Bhaabhi etc.
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Aa mere saathhi aa
Posted on: July 3, 2011
When one speaks of a movie “chhaliyaa”, one is reminded of the 1960 movie starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan which was also the debut movie of Manmohan Desai as a director.
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Main ik raja hoon tu ik rani hai
Posted on: July 3, 2011
1971 was a year when old order was changing, giving way to new. Many newcomers made their first appearances in this year or thereabouts. Most of them fell by the wayside, but a few of them managed to hold on and later they established themselves in the industry.
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Sun man ke meet more prem geet
Posted on: June 28, 2011
Most nice songs usually become popular. Or is it really so ? There is much legwork involved before the songs of a movie can become popular. The movie, as well as its songs need to arouse the curiosity of public before their release. For that the movie and its songs need to be marketed. In case the movie has saleable stars and the movie is made by a well known production house with deep pockets, then the songs of that movie stand a good chance of being heard.
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I watch TV sparingly, but yesterday when I was watching it for some time, I saw a programme dedicated to R D Burman. Through the programme I came to know that 27 june is R D Burman’s birthday.
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Maine chaand dekhaa hai
Posted on: June 23, 2011
Most movies that are released come to the notice of movie going public, whether or not they actually go to the movie halls to watch these movies.
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When I began this blog nearly three years ago, I discussed only one song a day. That gave me lots of time to discuss the song. I would have a detailed discussion on the song, and then I would also have a translation of the song.
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