Posts Tagged ‘1935’
Main khush hona chaahoon
Posted on: December 15, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music director Rai Chand Boral (1903-81) is credited with bringing playback to Hindi cinema with the number “Main khush hona chaahoon khush ho na sakoon”, a chorus song in the New Theatre production Dhoop Chhaaon (1935). A personna no less than the doyen of Hinsustani Cine Sangeet, the late Anil Biswas, reportedly complimented Boral, recepient of the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1978, as the Father of Indian Cinema Music.
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Ye kooch ke waqt kaisee aawaaz
Posted on: October 11, 2012
Two K L Saigal songs from “Kaarwaan e Hayaat” (1935) have been discussed in the past during the memorable days of 2011 when we were discussing one K L Saigal songs every day in this blog.
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“Dhoop Chhaaon” (1935) was a New Theatre Production. It was directed by Nitin Bose. The movie had Pahadi Sanyal, Uma Shashi, K C Dey etc.
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Yoon na reh reh kar hamen tarsaaiye
Posted on: June 16, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A ‘raagini’ coming alive – that would be an experience worth paying for with everything in life, including life itself. Imagine the circumstance – a private ‘sangeet sabha’ – musical congregation. The singer singing at the request of and in the honor of his spiritual guru. He renders Raag Jaunpuri, with such intense affection – and after some time a moment comes to pass where the entire gathering is transported into a magical surrealism, and the people present actually envision a very beautiful lady bedecked in fine jewellery and attire, slowly ambling amongst them. It is not an individual experience, but a vision perceived by many who were present. A worried guru motions the singer to slow down, and fade away the singing. But the vision persists. Eventually, the guru directs the singer to render Raag Bhairavi, and slowly the apparition fades away.
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Jeewan ka sukh aaj Prabhu mohe
Posted on: August 18, 2011
Typically our readers send us farmaishes of songs and we in this blog struggle to fulfil all these farmaishes. And it is my fond wish that a day will come when the shoe will be on the other foot and our readers will struggle to think of songs as farmaishes. 😀
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrributor to this blog.
Everything that Saigal Saab has rendered, is special. And then, whatever one is listening, in the moment, always seems more special than the others. That is the magic of this voice, no matter how many times one may have heard that particular song or ghazal before. Many ghazal singers have come after Saigal Saab, but somehow, when one listens to a ghazal rendered by him, there does not seem to be anything better, anything to compare in the world.
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