Posts Tagged ‘1955’
“Bahu” (1953) is an obscure movie by now. Like many obscure movies of those days, even this movie has some nice and wonderful songs in it that not too many people know about. Stumbling upon such songs is always a rewarding experience.
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I receive hundreds of farmaishes for songs that are not yet posted in this blog. Many of these farmaishes are for songs that are well known and/or relatively easily avaiable. Sometimes though, there are farmaishes for songs that are very difficult to find. There are cases where the farmaish giver was desperately seeking the song for years and even decades without success. It is highly satisfying for me when sometimes I am actually able to locate these elusive songs after some nice detective work.
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Chhoom chhanananan paayal boli
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ghar Ghar Mein Deewaali” (1955) by all indication was a B grade movie, going by the star cast which had Shyama, Sajjan, Manorama, Gajanan Jagirdar etc in lead roles. Little is known about this movie, and its prints are apparently not available.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music was enriched not only by the well known music directors, but also by the lesser known names. Many of these lesser known music directors deserved much more recognition and opportunities than what they ultimately ended up with.
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When I began this blog, I discussed songs at the rate of one song per day. Soon I began to discuss more songs every day. With time, I created pages to keep the list of songs in some order. Now there are pages that list songs by movie, by music director as well as by year.
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I am a big fan of Ravi. He is perhaps the only music director who was around when the golden era of Hindi movie music began to the time this era was finally gone for ever. His career began as a chorus singer in late 1940s,then he became assistant to Hemant Kumar (he was his assistant in “Naagin” (1954)) and then he became an independent music director with “Vachan” (1955). From then on till 1980s, he composed songs, many of which became so popular that they ended up becoming iconic songs. I in fact describe Ravi as a composer of iconic songs.
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Badnaam na ho jaaun
Posted on: November 23, 2010
What is it that makes a song enjoyable ? It is not just one aspect of the song, rather one enjoys several things about it. It is the voice of the singer, as well as the music that appeals to the ears, it is also the lyrics. In fact, the contribution of lyrics in making a soul can never be overemphasised. I am always fond of saying that lyrics are the soul of songs and it the lyrics that makes songs come alive. That is why I give so much importance to the lyrics of the song.
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Andher nagri chaupat raja
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Many of the songs discussed in this blog are well known songs. But in this blog, I also discuss songs that are rare and not known to many people. In fact, this blog may be one of the very few places on internet where such songs may find mention.
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Most “deepawali” festival songs are sad/ cynical songs, but there are happy “deepawali” songs as well. Here is one such song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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