Posts Tagged ‘1936’
Choodi main laaya anmol re
Posted on: April 12, 2012
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A few days back I found myself translating a song from Achhut Kanya for Raja who is subtitling the movie for the famous DVD restorer Tom Daniel.
The movie is one of the most celebrated ones of Hindi Cinema, an early classic, and an Indo-German collaboration that starred Devika Rani and Ashok Kumar. However, what I didn’t know was that it contained a dance by Mumtaz Ali, the father of Mehmood and Minoo Mumtaz. I found Mumtaz Ali so captivating, his dancing and singing so natural and so impromptu that I went off on a google fired discovery of facts about him. As is often the case, any information on artists of this era is not easy to come by. After a day of looking high and low, I managed to unearth only one thing, that he was a scion of the royal family of Arcot.
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Yaad na kar dile hazeen
Posted on: March 4, 2012
“Deccan Queen” (1936) is a very old movie that was released in the early formative days of Hindi talkies. This movie had Surendra and Aruna Devi in lead roles.
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Ye pyaari pyaari paati
Posted on: March 2, 2012
I have discussed it in the past that there are very few songs in Hindi movies which are picturised on dogs. Now that I have mentioned this fact, our alert contributors are bound to inform me when they come across any such songs.
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I found that both I as well as Sudhir jee came up with articles for this song ! I have combined both the articles in this write up. The first half (discussing Ashok Kumar’s career), is written by me. The second half, discussing this song is by Sudhir jee
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Atul’s write up
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A few days ago (13th october to be precise), we discussed Kishore Kumar’s songs on the occasion of his death anniversary. It was mentioned in passing in one of the articles that 13th october also happened to be the birthday of Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar’s elder brother. As a result of this death of his kid brother on his birthday, Ashok Kumar would no longer celebrate his birthday.
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The realisation that there are no more K L Saigal songs to discuss now gives me an empty feeling, but with that also comes the satisfaction of a job well done. The satisfaction that the blog now has all the K L Saigal songs in Hindi/Urdu that are available- movie songs as well as non movie songs is immense.
Out of 110 movie songs sung by K L Saigal , 106 are available and 100 of them have been discussed in this blog. Searching for the 6 remaining songs not yet discussed in like searching for a needle in a haystack. After careful search, it has been revealed that this particular song from “Krorepati”(1936) had so far escaped from being posted. 😀
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Kit gaye ho khewanhaar
Posted on: August 18, 2011
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936), a movie produced by Himanshu Rai was a movie on a daring subject of its time, viz untouchability. And the movie turned out to be a landmark movie on several counts.
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Jagat mein prem hi prem bhara hai
Posted on: July 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Krorepati (alias Millionaire) is a 1936 production from New Theatres Calcutta, directed by Hem Chander. The music compositions for this movie are shared by RC Boral and Pankaj Mullick. There is a total of 12 songs in this movie, of which 4 are composed by RC Boral and 8 by Pankaj Mullick. As fortune would have it, the recordings of all the 8 songs composed by Pankaj Mullick are not available from any source so far.
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