Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
Chal chal re naujawaan
Posted on: March 2, 2012
When I saw the lyrics “chal chal re naujawaan” in a song from “Ek Phool Do Maali” (1969), I was surprised. People may wonder why I should be surprised if I had watched the movie. Indeed I had watched the movie, but my selective memory ensures that I only recall the details of movie watched in my younger days and details of movies that I watched much later are not retained in my memory (not enough space in the memory, perhaps 🙂 ).
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Jogiyaa aa aa
Posted on: March 2, 2012
“Khota Paisa” (1958) was a Sadiq Production movie. It was produced and directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Johny Walker, Shyama, Veena,Jeevan, Dhumal, Nissar Ahmed Ansari, Rajen Haksar,S.N.Bannerjee, Amir Bano etc in it.
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“Heer” (1956) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hamid Butt and the starcast included Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Ulhas, Darpan, S. L. Puri, Randhir, Krishna Kumari, Zohra Sehgal, Chaman Puri, Mubarak, Murad, Rashid Khan, Lalita Pawar, Shakuntala etc.
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Bhare hain aankh mein aansoo
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Saara Jahaan Hamaara”(1961) is an obscure B grade movie by now. This movie was produced by India Films corporation. Prakash Chhabra was the director and the starcast had Premnath, Shyama, Hiralal,Rajeshwari, Azraa, Ajay kumar, Jankidass, Manju etc in it.
Tum saamne aakar jis dam
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Khazaanchi” (1958) is a movie which was produced and directed by P N Arora. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra, Manorama, Helen, Rajan Haksar etc in it.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Tere Ghar Ke Samne is one of the great movies offered up by Indian Cinema. It stars Dev Anand, Nutan, Om Prakash, Hrindranath Chattopadhyaya and Rajendranath. As was mandatory, this movie had some of the lovliest songs ever, thanks to lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, set to music by SD Burman, sung to perfection by Lata, Asha and Rafi.
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Dam hai baaqi to gham nahin
Posted on: February 27, 2012
“House No 44” (1955) was a movie produced under the banner of Navketan International Films. Dev Anand was the producer and M K Burman was the director of this movie. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Karthik, K.N.Singh, Kumkum, Bhagwan Sinha, Sheela Vaz, PrabhuDayal, Jambura, Anand Pal, Parashuram, Sarita, Shivraj, Rashid Khan, Kammo, etc in it.
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Aao na galey lagaa lo naa
Posted on: February 26, 2012
Here is another “How come this song was not posted earlier !” category of this. This song is from “Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972). This movie was a Shilpkaar production. It was produced by Vinoh Shah and Harish Shah. Ravi Nagaich was the director and the movie had Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja, Bindu, Rajendranath, Sujit Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Helen, Nazir Hussain, K.N.Singh, Sulochana Latkar, Krishna Kant, Brahmchari, Renu, Sonu, V.D.Puranik, Gurnam, Sabina, Vijay Dewan, Mohan, Arun Bose, Fazloo, Kabir Kumar, Mamaaji etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, it is music”.
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Tana dhim
Posted on: February 25, 2012
This blog is about OLD Hindi movie songs. So this blog is expected to attract visitors of a particular age group. What is the age profile of majority of visitors to this blog ? Popular impression, based on hunch, would be that most visitors, regulars and contributors of this blog are middle aged people, in their 40s or more. Let me hasten to clarify though that we all feel quite young by heart though. I have repeated it often that mentally I do not feel one day older than 12 years of age. 🙂 And same is the case with other regulars of the blog too.
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