Posts Tagged ‘Behzad Lucknowi’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the story of a diva who, despite being in the midst of very adverse family circumstances in her formative years and facing the conservative society, created a niche for herself in the field of classical and ghazal singing. It is also the story of a woman who, despite fame and adulation showered on her by millions of fans, felt lonely all through her life.
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Log mujhko khush samajhte hain
Posted on: August 6, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was aware of Behzad Lucknowi as a lyricist for the films mainly of the 40s. I found that he suddenly vanished from Hindi film industry after he wrote lyrics for a few songs in films released in 1951. Last week, I accidentally came across an audio clip of a ghazal sung by none other than Ghulam Haider from the film ‘Zamindar’(1942). This beautiful ghazal was written by Behzad Lucknowi. I was so touched by this poignant ghazal that I started looking for his other songs penned by him for Hindi films. Two songs among a few already covered in this blog were very familiar to me but I was not aware that those two songs were written by Behzad Lucknowi. Those two songs were : zindaa huun is tarah kigham-e-zindagi nahin, tumhaare bulaane ko ji chaahataa hai. After listening to these songs and the ghazal from the film referred to above, there was an urge in me to know more about Behzad Lucknowi. As it turned out, he was an interesting personality.
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“Adaa” (1951) is a Goel Cine Corporation movie. This movie was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. Starcast of the movie had Rehana, Shekher, Gope, Madan Puri, Mohana, Shanta Kumari etc in it.
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Ye nazar taakti hai nishaanaa
Posted on: October 5, 2011
“Pyaar Ki Baaten” (1951) was a Nargis production movie which was directed by Akhtar Hussain. This movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nargis in lead roles.
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In Hindi movies,any occasion is good enough for a song. When one is happy, sad, in a romantic occasion, in a philosophical mood, in a party, in a mountain, in a beach- all these occasions lead to songs in Hindi movies.
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I have been posting songs from “Aag” (1948) for the last few days. In this series, here is another song from this movie.
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Dil toot gayaa jee chhoot gayaa
Posted on: July 26, 2009
These days, I am posting songs from “Aag” (1948). Here is another song from this movie.
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Kaahe koyal shor machaaye re
Posted on: July 22, 2009
I have read about this song,though I had never heard this song before. yesterday I searched for this song and listened ( and watched) it for the first time.
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Tumhaare bulaane ko jee chaahtaa hai
Posted on: June 9, 2009
Here is a very old song from “Laadli” (1949). This song is sung by Lata who was then a newcomer.
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