Posts Tagged ‘1948’
O saajnaa kyaa kiyaa
Posted on: May 3, 2011
“Chandralekha” (1948) was a milestone for Indian movie industry. It was originally a South Indian movie produced by Gemini.After its huge success in South India, the movie was dubbed/remade into Hindi and its success among Hindi movie watchers paved the way for South Indian producers to venture into producing Hindi movies, not just as remake of South Indian movies, but also original Hindi movies.
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Kaise kaatoon ye kaali raaten
Posted on: May 2, 2011
While looking for songs of “Heer Ranjha” (1970), I discovered that this was not the only movie bearing this title. There have been as many as six movies called “Heer Ranjha” over the decades ! “Heer Ranjha” (1970) -the fifth movie bearing this title is the most well known of them, thanks mainly to its music. Prior to this movie, “Heer Ranjha” (1948) -the fourth movie with this title,was the most well known movie of this name.
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Ye kaun aayaa re
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Ziddi” (1948) is the first movie of Kishore Kumar as a solo playback singer. He had earlier sang as part of chorus in “Aath Din” (1946).
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Pyaar banke mujhpe koi chhaa gayaa
Posted on: April 13, 2011
1947, when India gained its independence and the country was partitioned was a period of transition as well as momentous changes in the Hindi movies and its music. Many big names of music world had departed from the scene and new artists were taking their place.
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Rumjhum matwaare baadal chhaa gaye
Posted on: April 10, 2011
Discovering musical gems by chance is something that I am quite used to. It happens quite regularly with me. Look what I discovered just now ! A pure gem of the highest purity !
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“Chunariyaa” (1948) is a very old and forgotten movie. It had Wasti,Pran, Manorama etc in lead roles.
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O pardesi yaad mein teri
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I never tire of mentioning that there are countless musical gems lying there that have been forgotten with time. I keep discovering them quite regularly.
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Ankhiyaan milaake ankhiyaan
Posted on: February 18, 2011
Most people are aware of the movie called “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982) which was a Rajshree Productions movie. There was another movie of the same name that was released as far back as in 1948. This movie “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1948) was in fact a bigger budget movie and a mainstream movie unlike “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1982). “Nadiya Ke Paar” (1948) starred Dilip Kumar and Kamini Kaushal and by most indications, it was a commercial success.
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The technology of recording Hindi movie songs in the earlier decades was not very advanced. It was not possible to use the same recording for both the movie as well as the record companies, so the same song was recorded twice- once for the movie sound track, and another time for the record company.
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Most of the songs discussed in this blog are created by those who are well known names or the usual suspects, as one may call them. But that does not mean that they were the only talents out there. Even the lesser known artists have helped build a good body of work as far as Hindi movie music is concerned. It is another matter that many of these songs lie hidden and buried and they are required to be dug up.
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