Posts Tagged ‘Amar Jyoti’
Ab maine jaana hai
Posted on: October 12, 2012
“Amar Jyoti” (1936) was a Prabhat Production. It was directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Chandramohan, Durga Khote, Shanta Apte, Vasanti, Vasant Desai etc in it. This movie was the first Indian movie to be screened at the Venice Film Festival.
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Jeet jyot tez chamak raha hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Today (22 september) is the death anniversary of Durga Khote (14 january 1905 -22 september 1991). Many younger day movie watchers may associate her with mother and grandmother roles, but she was one of the earliest leading lady of Hindi movies and one of those who paved the entry of women from respectable background to Hindi movies.
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Suno suno ban ke praani
Posted on: June 29, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
During my childhood and younger days, I had heard some songs and in case of a few of them I remembered only the tunes. I had no idea whether they belonged to films or were non-film songs.
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Kalpana ke ghan baraste
Posted on: June 9, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
June 9, 2012 is the birth centenary of the music director Vasant Desai whom I regard as a man who worked in Hindi film industry on his own terms without being a part of the rate race among his contemporary music directors. Being a devotee of the traditional music, he did not succumb to the lure of money in composing music for mass appeal.
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Aaj hamen ban behad bhaataa
Posted on: July 19, 2010
I became aware of this movie called “Amar Jyoti” (1936) thanks to the review of this movie by Greta (memsaab). When I searched for the songs of this movie, I came across a few songs from this movie. Considering that the sound recording technology was in its infancy and the actors themselves had to record the songs live, the quality of the songs were not particularly great at least in the first two songs of this movie that I came across. But when I heard the third song, I sat up and took notice.
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