Archive for the ‘Songs of 1978’ Category
Gulmohar gar tumhaara naam hota
Posted on: September 6, 2012
Today (6 september) is the birthday of Rakesh Roshan, better known as the father of Hrithik Roshan and even better known as the son of music director Roshan. 🙂
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Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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Arre nazar lage na saathiyon
Posted on: August 4, 2012
The first solo song that Kishore Kumar sang in his playback career was for Dev Anand in the movie “Ziddi” (1948) under the music direction of Khemchand Prakash. Then S D Burman, his mentor used his good offices to get Kishore Kumar to give plaback for Raj Kapoor in “Pyaar” (1950). But from that time onwards, Kishore Kumar sang for himself or for Dev Anand, in case it was a Dev Anand movie with S D Burman’s music direction. I can think of one more exception during 1950s though where Kishore Kumar sang for someone other than himself or Dev Anand. It was the iconic song Din hai suhaana aaj pahli taarikh hai(Pahli taarikh) (1954) which was picturised on Raja Nene.
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Na aaj thha na kal thhaa
Posted on: August 4, 2012
“Pati Patni Aur Woh” (1978) was a B R Chopra production. It was produced and directed by B R Chopra. The movie was a light hearted adult comedy in the sense that it depicted the tale of a man carrying on an affair with his female secretary in office behind the back of his homely wife.
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Anil Biswas, one of the pioneers of Hindi movie music once opined that Sajjad Hussain and Jaidev were the most talented music directors in his opinion. Coming from Anil Biswas, it was high praise indeed.
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Today (27th july) is the death anniversary of Amjad Khan. It was on this day that Amjad Khan had died in 1992 at a young age of 51.
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Dhaley din aise
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Laal Kothi” (1978) was a movie produced by Tollywood, as the Bangla movie industry is known. The movie was produced in Bangla and Hindi both. Most of the actors were from the Bangla film industry and/or those conversant with Bangla. This movie, produced under the banner of Peacock Films was produced by Ashis Roy. It was directed by Kanak Mukherji and Mohinder Batra. The starcast had Tanuja, Ranjit Mullick, Danny Denzongpa, Utpal Dutt, Anil Dhawan, Tarun Kumar, Master Partha Mukherjee, Swaraj Chatterjee, Arun, Ranjan Mukherjee, Gupte etc.
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Doob raha hai mera dil shaam se
Posted on: May 10, 2012
When Raja pointed it out to me that today (10 may) was Kaifi Azmi’s death anniversary, I began to look for a few songs to discuss. It may sound easy but searching for a Kaifi Azmi song (or for that matter any other artist’s songs) is not a simple affair if that artist is well represented in the blog. More than one hundred of Kaifi Azmi’s songs have already been discussed in the blog. In other words, most well known Kaifi Azmi songs are already there, and only the lesser known songs remain to be discussed. I have already discussed one such lesser known song of Kaifi Azmi. And here is another song which is also quite an obscure song.
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Khai ke paan banaaraswaala
Posted on: April 29, 2012
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This article is written by Santosh Ojha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and an old contributor to this blog.
When Atul wrote to me in his usual polite way the other day that I must write a post on this song I was taken aback. I have been a (mostly silent) reader of his blog and I have even written a few pieces for it but none for a very long time. Perhaps he thought I might like to do this piece on Don’s “Khaike paan banaraswala” as most of my early pieces were on Amitabh Bachchan’s movies of that era as I am an unabashed AB fan. What he did not know when he wrote to me is that I had another “qualification” for doing this piece; I studied for five years in Banaras.
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I have not been able to discuss songs at the rate that I would have liked. Hopefully I will be able to resume my normal rate of discussing songs within a couple days or so.
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