Posts Tagged ‘Anil Biswas’
Zindagi ka ajab fasaanaa hai
Posted on: July 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is another beautiful ghazal from the film Chhoti Chhoti Baaten (1965), presented as a duet in this movie. The ghazal is sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar, and on screen, it is picturized on Moti Sagar and Manju. Moti Sagar plays the role of Motilal’s son in this movie. Motilal leaves his children and comes to live in a village. After some time, one of his sons, Moti Sagar, disillusioned with his own life in his own ways, also follows him and starts to live with his father in the village. Here, he falls in love with a village girls, Radha, played by actress Manju.
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Though most Hindi movies have their titles in Hindi/Urdu, there are cases when their titles are in pure English. Most of these movies tended to be B grade movies.
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Loot liyaa haay loot liyaa
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I am aware of an obscure movie called “Mehmaan” (1974). As it turns out, there is an equally obscure movie called “Mehmaan” (1953) too. This movie had Premnath and Nimmi in lead roles.
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Bhool jaanaa chaahti hoon
Posted on: June 11, 2011
“Jwaar Bhaata” (1944) is today remembered as Dilip Kumar’s debut movie. This movie also had Shamim, Arun Kumar,Vikram Kapoor, Mridula,Agha Jaan etc in it.
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Paise ka mantar paise ka jantar
Posted on: May 10, 2011
Regular visitors of this blog may have been noticing that I was discussing lots and lots of songs composed by Anil Biswas these days. And a few regulars may also be aware of the reason behind that. These days I am quite particular to see that major artists who have less than 100 of their songs in this blog reach their century of songs as quickly as I can help it.
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The title “Milan” for a Hindi movie has been used once in each decade, beginning from 1940s till 1960s. Thus we have had “Milan” (1946), “Milan” (1958) and “Milan” (1967). I have discussed songs from all these movies in the past.
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“Kismat” (1943) was the first ever multistarrer Hindi movie. It had Ashok Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti in lead roles.
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I have discussed as many as three songs from “Chaar Dil Chaar Raahen” (1959) in the recent past. All these songs are from different genre. Here is another song from this movie which is from yet another genre.
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Keh rahi hai zindagi
Posted on: May 9, 2011
This aricle is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
I met another long lost friend today, that I had not heard from in a very long time.
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Rimjhim barse paani aaj morey angnaa
Posted on: May 9, 2011
Look what a remarkable gem I discovered just a few hours ago ! This song is from “Pardesi” (1957). Though I have discussed two songs from this movie already in the past, I was not aware of the fact that this movie was an Indo Soviet production which was made in Hindi as well as Russian languages. In the movie, a Russian man (played by Oleg Strizhenov) comes to India and falls in love with an Indian village belle, played by Nargis.
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