Posts Tagged ‘1937’
Raja ji ke baag mein
Posted on: April 7, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Writing about old films and old artists is sometimes very difficult. Firstly, genuine informations are rare and difficult to trace and Secondly,one gets frustrated with the wrong information being disseminated by most Internet sites, who claim to give you ALL information about Films, songs and actors of early era.
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Prem karat bann mein
Posted on: March 29, 2013
The first Hindi Tarzan movie was “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). In this movie John Cawas played Tarzan and Jane was played by Gulshan. This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. Other important actors in the movie were Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc.
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Bhala kyun bhala kyun
Posted on: January 5, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The above song is from a film called PARAKH-1937, whose Music Director was B.S.HOOGAN.
When I first came across this name Hoogan, in the list of Hindi composers, my first reaction was, what is this foreigner doing in Hindi Films ?
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Sunaaun kisko man ki baat
Posted on: December 21, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
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Unknown composers Composer 5-Badri Prasad
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Hindi films have seen many beautiful actresses. Some beauties were legendary, not only in their times, but also for ever, e.g. Leela Naidu. There were some handsome actors also like Nandrekar, Chandramohan, Nazmul Hussain, Prithviraj Kapoor etc.
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Man saaf tera hai ya nahin
Posted on: November 12, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the early era of Talkie films the Film Companies which were well known were Imperial, New Theatres, British Dominion, Kohinoor, Krishna, Maharashtra, Ranjit, Saraswati, Sharada film company etc. Most of these companies continued from the silent era. Slowly many film companies stopped or got merged with existing companies. But one name stood out even in those days and that was PRABHAT FILM COMPANY or PFC.
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The tale of Tarzan was used in Hindi movies beginning from 1937. The original Hindi Tarzan movie was called “Toofaani Tarzan” (1937). This movie was a Wadia Movietone production. It was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had John Cawas in the title role. The starcast of the movie had John Cawas, Gulshan, Boman Shroff, Chandrashekhar, Nazira, Dalpat, Ahmed Dilwar etc. A wonderful review of this movie is available in Memsaab’s blog.
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“Vidyapati” (1937) was directed by Debaki Bose. This movie had Pahadi Sanyal in the title role with Kanan Devi acting opposite him. This movie also had Prithviraj Kapoor, Chhaya Devi, K C Dey, Kidar Sharma and Leela Desai.
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Bhooli huyi yaad aayee kahaani
Posted on: October 15, 2012
While most Hindi movies of the early days used stories from Indian mythological tales, there were a few movie makers who looked westward into Arabian/ Persian tales. Then there were a few who looked even further into tales of Western world and used them.
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Surya wahi Chandra wahi
Posted on: October 1, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
When film making started in India, the film makers made films on mythological stories, for the simple reason that In India mythology has a great impact on peoples’ life and anything that is mythological is accepted unconditionally.
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Kaisa ujda chaman khushi ka
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A very remarkable song indeed. Not just for the words and music, but the way the music is arranged, and the manner in which it has been rendered. The special feature of remark-ability can either be told, or can be perceived by listening to the song itself. Maybe some of the readers would pause reading this write up, listen to the song and then come back to read the rest of it. And possibly, some readers can recognize what is special about this song.
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