Archive for the ‘Songs of 1976’ Category
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1976 film ‘Aarambh’ may not be a very well known film, but it does carry a unique distinction. It remains the only Hindi film for which the music has been scored by the famous Anand Shankar.
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Apne aap raaton mein
Posted on: February 10, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The sheer fusion of the poetry – in verse and in melody, is absolutely astounding in this creation. And folks familiar with Khayaam Sb would not expect any less, and especially when the film is ‘Shankar Hussain’ (1977).
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is another solo of Rafi Sahab from the film “Laila Majnu” (1976). This is a ghazal picturized as a doli song with Majnu following Laila’s doli in the desert and singing this song , imploring Laila to take with her, the prayers of the one who has been left desolate in her love. This is among the last few compositions of Madan Mohan. Lyricist is Saahir Ludhianvi. Master of ghazals as Madan Mohan is known as, this is a brilliant creation of all three legends. A teetotaler simpleton, a cynical intellectual and a broken genuis alcoholic. A strange combination if there were any.
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In Hindi movies, we have examples of movie makers who would ensure that their movie titles began with some particular letters of the alphabet. Thus J Omprakash’s movies will always begin with “A”, and in case of Arjun Hingorani movies, the title would be of three words, each beginning with K. Then there were movie makers who regarded certain words as lucky for them. For instance Sawan Kumar fancied the word “Sautan” in his movies while producer Girsh Jain regarded the word “Khiladi” as his lucky word in his movie titles.
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Poonam ki pyaari pyaari raat
Posted on: January 21, 2013
“Rakshabandhan” (1976) was a Usha Productions movie. It was produced by K G Bhatt and directed by Shantilal Soni. The movie had Sachin, Sarika, Dulari, Meena.T., Jalal Agha, Lalita Pawar, Satyajeet, Nazir Hussain, P.Jairaj etc in it.
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Rang le aayenge roop le aayenge
Posted on: January 4, 2013
I had heard this song “rang le aayenge roop le aayenge” many times during its days in 1970s. This song was quite a popular song of its time, but all this while I was not aware about the movie this song was from. It is only now that I have come to know that the song was from a movie called “Bhanwar” (1976). This by now obscure movie was an Evershine Pictures production. It was produced by Shyam Keswani and Nandu Mirani. Bhappi Sonie was the director. The story of this song was written by Gulshan Nanda who was a very popular Hindi language pulp fiction novelist of those days.
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“Kitne Paas Kitne Door” (1976), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog, has ended up becoming quite an obscure movie by now. This movie, when it was released in 1976 went unnoticed.
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Surkh jodey ki ye jagmagaahat
Posted on: December 9, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a Yashraj Films production movie. It was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. The movie had Shashi Kapoor, Rakhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Simi Grewal, Parikshat Sahni etc in it.
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Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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When one looks at the songs picturised on Dilip Kumar, one finds that Dilip Kumar, for much of his career had lip synced mainly in the voices of Talat Mehmood, Mukesh and Rafi. In addition, he had also sung in the voices of G M Durrani and C Ramchandra. Then he had sung for himself as well in a few songs.
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