Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Saajan badi suhaani bhor
Posted on: October 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Doctor (1941) is a classic landmark film produced under the banner of New Theatres, Calcutta and directed by Subodh Mitra. The music composition is by Pankaj Babu, and the lyrics are penned by Aarzoo Lucknowi and Asgar Hussain Shor. The lead role of the principled and self effacing doctor is played Pankaj Babu. Other actors in the star line up include Nemo, Jyoti Prakash, Panna, Bharati Devi, Ahindru Chaudhry, Amar, Indu Mukherjee, Buddh Deb, Arbind Sen, Tona Roy, Ardhendu Mukherjee, Sukumar Pal etc. A fairly detailed synopsis of the film is available online, and is also partly covered in other songs from this film already discussed on this blog, especially Mehak Rahi Phulwaari and Kab tak niraashaa ka andhiyaara . This particular song is written by Agsar Hussain Shor.
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Chhedoongaa main sargam
Posted on: October 13, 2011
“Aabroo” (1956) is an Uma Chitra production. this movie was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Kishore Kumar,Madan Puri, Achla Sachdev, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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Naina panghat bhaye hamaare
Posted on: October 5, 2011
“Shankar Parvati” (1943) is a movie produced by Ranjit movies and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. This movie had actors like Arun, Sadhana Bose,Rewa Shankar, Bhagwandas, Kamla Chatterji, Brajmala etc in it.
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“Moorti” (1945) is a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it.
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“Preet” (1945) is a by now obscure movie. Few people seem to have any idea about this movie. From the little I have been able to find about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in lead roles.
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“Raftaar”(1955) is a movie that was produced by Filco and I wonder what this arconym stand for. This movie was directed by Nakshab and I guess that he could well be the producer of this movie too.
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Regulars of this blog may have noticed that I tend to discuss the songs of a few artists regularly and then after some time, I stop discussing that artist and begin to discuss the songs of some other artist.
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Ambuwaa pe koyal boley
Posted on: September 16, 2011
“Moorti” (1945) was a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it. Only the first two names in the cast are somewhat familiar. I have little idea about the other actors in the list.
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“Teasing” songs where the hero teases the heroine while singing a roadside Romeo genre of song is not quite my cup of tea, especially when the hero is someone like Rajendra Kumar. But I am prepared to condone such teasing when the hero is someone like Shammi Kapoor or Kishore Kumar. Who said that I am impartial in my likings of actors. 😀 Yes,I am objective and impartial in my likings only when it comes to singers, not actors. 🙂
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While discussing songs, I often like to discuss songs that are rare/ unusual/unexpected in some ways. For example, songs sung by people normally not known for their singing, songs composed by people who are normally known for some other activity, lyricist/music director/singer figuring in the picturisation of the song etc.
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