Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Main chaand hoon ya chaandni
Posted on: April 21, 2013
When one talks of a movie called “Chaandni”, one normally means the Vinod Khanna, Sri Devi starrer movie of 1989.
It turns out that a movie of this title was released as far back as in 1942 as well.
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Itna bhi na wo samjha ke gaye
Posted on: April 20, 2013
The film “Moorti” was a Ranjit Movietone production. The film was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Khursheed, Motilal, Padma Bannerjee, Yashwant Dave, Kamal Zamindaar, Kaneez, Tara Bai, PD Laal, Chakram etc in it.
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Madhuban mein mat jaa re bhanwra
Posted on: April 18, 2013
“Bharthari” (1944) is by now a forgotten movie with hardly any information available on it. Thankfully we have our own inhouse encyclopaedia to look up to in the form of Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about this movie:-
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Pardesi babu aate jaate rehna
Posted on: April 17, 2013
The world of Hindi movie music is like a vast ocean containing treasures within it. Popular and well known songs are like treasures that are known to everyone. Then there are lesser known treasures that one can come across easily enough in ankle deep shallow portion of the ocean. But there are treasures that are lying hidden far out and deep into this ocean and the only way one can discover them is by going into great depth and diving repeatedly and patiently to come up with goodies.
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Kabhi na himmat haar bande
Posted on: April 17, 2013
“Station Master” (1942) is a very old movie. Little information was available on internet about this movie till we began to discuss songs from this movie in the blog. And then our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared all the information about this movie that one may be interested in.
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“Daak Babu” (1954) was a Jubilee Pictures production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had Talat Mehmood, Nadira, Radhakrishan, Kuldip Kaur, Yashodhara Katju, Manmohan Krishnan etc in it.
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Kehna hai aaj tumse
Posted on: April 10, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
While Padosan (1968) is much more famous for its funny songs and “mere saamnewali khidki mein”, it has more to it than that. This Kishore Kumar solo for example often gets forgotten when people talk of the songs from this film.
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Ik sitaar ke do taar
Posted on: April 10, 2013
“Garib” (1942), by now a forgotten movie, was directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Surendranath, Veena Kumari, Rose, Agha etc in it.
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Meri pyaari Bindu
Posted on: April 9, 2013
This article is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is my favourite comic song from Padosan (1968). It is simple and still so funny.
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