Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Phir nain baawre bhar bhar aaye
Posted on: June 15, 2013
“Do Dil” (1947) was a Jamuna Productions movie and it was directed by Jagdish Sethi. The movie had Motilal, Suraiyyaa, Karan Dewan, Badri Prasad, Gulab, Ram Singh, Shabnam, Sudhir, S Baburao, Khalil etc in it.
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Jhoom jhoom ke naache manwa
Posted on: June 15, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When Manoj Kumar approached him for lyrics and music for his film on the life of Bhagat Singh, the first thing he did was he traveled to Banga village in Punjab, and personally met with the Bhagat Singh’s moher, Mata Vidyawati ji. He talked with her about the legendary martyr, his childhood, his time in college, and as a freedom fighter. And the time he spent in the prison. From these reminiscences of Mata Vidyawati, the incredible poetry that emerged from the pen of this extraordinary poet became the iconic song of patriotic inspiration – “Tu Na Rona Ke Tu Hai Bhagat Singh Ki Maa. . .”.
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“Sehra” (1948) is an obscure movie and hardly any information is available online about this movie. One song from this movie has been discussed in the past. Our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh shared some rare information about this movie at that time. Here is what he has to say about this movie:-
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Wohi rota hua ek dil
Posted on: May 6, 2013
“Lahore” (1949) was a Jaimini Dewan Production movie. It was produced by Jaimini Dewan and directed by M L Anand. The movie had Karan Diwan, Nargis, Kuldeep Kaur, Pratima Devi, Om Prakash, Gulab, Randhir, Balak Ram etc in it.
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this article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the last few days, I have been looking for songs composed by Shyam Sundar, the forgotten music director of 40s and early 50s. Whenever I think of him, the name of another forgotten music director Sajjad Hussain creeps in my mind. If Shyam Sundar was called a genius music director, Sajjad Hussain was called an original music director by none other than Anil Biswas, the ‘Bheeshm Pitaamah’ of Hindi film music. Despite these superlatives against their names, Shyam Sundar and Sajjad Hussain composed music for only 20 and 17 Hindi films respectively in their careers. This works out to on an average 2 films per year for Shyam Sunder (1943 to 1953) and less than 1 film per year for Sajjad Hussain ( 1944 to 1977). One common reason attributed for their musical output not being commensurate with their talents was that both were short tempered and perfectionist to the extent that they were uncompromising which was not to the liking of producers/directors of the films.
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Hindi movie titles are often like comets that visits us at periodical intervals. For instance, the title “Dost” seems to get repeated once every decade. We have had movies with this title in 1944, 1954 and 1974. We did not have a movie of the title “Dost” in 1964, but we had “Dosti” in 1964 !
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