Archive for the ‘Songs of 1975’ Category
Today (31 july 2013) is Mumtaz’s 66 th birth anniversary. I find it an interesting coincidence that her peak in Hindi movies coincided with the peak of Rajesh Khanna. Mumtaz bowed out of movie industry just as Rajesh Khanna lost his crown in mid 1970s.
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Tamannaayen pareshaan
Posted on: July 16, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Ye Kis Ki Yaad Aa Gayee, Bahaar Ban Ke Chhaa Gayee” – a lovely rendition by Suraiyya, composed by Hansraj Behl, and the verses created by Anjum Jaipuri. This, and many more such wonderful ghazals and geets have come from the pen of this talented poet, who was equally at home with the adbi shaayari in chaste Urdu, and the songs that he wrote in unsullied Hindi for the many religious and historical films that he wrote for.
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This article is written by Peevesie’s mom, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a sequel to the Bachpan ka incident that I related the last time. My dear Peevesie reminded me of this and urged me to relate it also. It is a sweet memory which is referred to by my dad to her every time the song or scene of a particular movie comes on TV. And then we all have a good time thinking of those days.
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Raahi o raahi o raahi
Posted on: June 1, 2013
“Himalay Se Ooncha” (1975) was produced by Babboo Mehta and directed by B S Thapa. The movie had Sunil Dutt and Mallika Sarabhai in lead roles. Ranjeet, Rakesh Pandey, Achala Sachdev etc were in it as well.
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Dama dam mast kalandar
Posted on: April 17, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Details and translation of this song are by Sudhir
Pre-Partition, India had many many legendary singers-Male and Females. After Partition, some singers migrated to the new country-Pakistan. Singing legend Noorjehan also went to Pakistan. Now India had Lata and Pakistan had Noorjehan.
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Aksar koi kadka is haal mein
Posted on: March 30, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
HASYA RAS is one of the nine Rasas described in our sciptures. They are the basic elements of our Literatures and we find events pertaining to these in our day to day life.
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Keh doon tumhen kyaa chup rahoon
Posted on: March 18, 2013
“Deewaar” (1975) must be regarded as one of the most influential movies of its time. Unlike most Hindi movies, the music of this movie only had a marginal role to play in the success of the movie. In fact no song of this movie figured in the Binaca geetmala finals.
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I realised it only just now, literally at the 11th hour that today (8 march) is the birth anniversary of Sahir Ludhianvi (8 march 1921- 25 october 1980). How could I forget the fact that Sahir Ludhianvi’s birthday falls on the International Women’s day ! This fact was mentioned by Raja while discussing Sahir Ludhianvi song (Aurat ne janam diya mardon ko (Saadhana)) this day two years ago.
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Main wahi darpan wahi
Posted on: February 28, 2013
“Geet Gaata Chal” (1975) was a Rajshree Productions movie. It was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Hiren Nag. The movie had Sachin, Sarika, Manhar Desai, Urmila Bhatt, Madan Puri, Leela Mishra, Khyati, Minoo Mehtab, Agha, Dhumal, Padma Khanna, V.Gopal, Swati, Mehmood Jr., Sunder, Ramayan Tiwari etc in it.
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