Posts Tagged ‘1949’
Ghabra ke jo ham sar ko
Posted on: March 20, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari Dubey (1924 – 20/03/2000), popularly known as Rajkumari, was one of the earliest playback singers who dominated playback singing in the 40s. During my younger days, I used to identify her with a popular song ‘sun bairi balam sach bol re’ from the film BAAWRE NAIN (1952). It was her interview on Doordarshan in the 80s and some other video clips of her performances that made me to search for more of her songs. I found that she was not only an accomplished singer but also a ‘zinda dil’ (lively) person who zest for life was not dampened by her adverse financial condition in her later life.
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Muhabbat hamaari zamaana hamaara
Posted on: March 7, 2012
“Dulaari” (1949) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The starcast of the movie had names like Suresh, Geeta Bali, Madhubala, Jayant, Shyam Kumar, Amar, Nawab, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949), a Tajmahal Pictures Production, was directed by M Ehsan. Satcast included names like Shyam, Naseem Bano,Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949) was a Tajmahal pictures presentation. This movie was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names viz. Shyam, Naseem Bano,Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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“Dulaari” (1949) is a movie which is today fondly remembered as the movie that helped Rafi break into the big league with the song Suhaani raat dhal chuki. Till then, Rafi’s style of singing had few takers in the Hindi movie music and with this movie it became the new style of singing. It was a paradigm shift which few people at that time may have realised. In fact the management term “Paradigm Shift” itself was not coined at that time.
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Kaise baje dil ke sitaar
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is a Taj Mahal Pictures presentation. It was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Naseem, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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Ek teer chala dil pe lagaa
Posted on: February 15, 2012
“Mahal” (1949) is a landmark movie in several ways, including its music. We in this blog have discussed as many as four songs from this movie.
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Here is another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier”. 🙂 And like always, my excuse is the same. I thought this song was already discussed but I was wrong.
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“Patanga”(1949) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail and the starcast had names like Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Gope, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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