Posts Tagged ‘C Ramchandra’
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
C RAMCHANDRA is generally considered a rebel amongst the composers of his times. He is the one, who, in the fifth decade of the 20th century itself brought full fledged western music variety in Hindi songs. At the same time he composed soft and extremely melodious songs based on various Ragaas also. He took Lata Mangeshkar to the pinnacle where she remained, later, on her own merit, for a long period. Very few composers have exhibited such variety in their music. It was a fact that many of his films were sold merely on the strength of his music.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and a regular contributor to this blog.
C Ramchandra started his career as an independent Music Director with a Tamil film- ” Jayakodi” ( Flag of Victory ).
Very strange indeed ! A Marathi composer, who spent his entire life in Hindi cinema Industry, started with a Tamil film !!
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Kehke bhi na aaye tum
Posted on: February 2, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was a bit surprised to note that Mohammed Rafi had to struggle for nearly 5 years to establish him as one of the leading male playback singers in Hindi film industry. It is said that he recorded his first song for a Punjabi film as early as 1942. It took him another 2 years to get his first song in a Hindi film ‘Pahele Aap’ (1944), a duet with Shyam thus beginning his long lasting collaboration with Naushad. It took another year for him to get an opportunity to sing his first solo song ‘ae dil-e-nakaam tamanna’ in ‘Hamara Sansaar’ (1945) followed by ‘teraa khilonaa toota baalak’ in ‘Anmol Ghadi’ (1946), the latter one under the baton of Naushad.
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La bulbula
Posted on: February 1, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
C Ramchandra can be easily called the King of Anokhe Bol songs, though he is not who started it.
The first song having Anokhe Bol or meaningless words was composed by the Grand old music Director Madhulal Damodar Master in film ” Hatimtai I “-1933 and the Lyricist was G.R.Sethi who was the film’s director also. The song was ‘ Donga donga dum dum daka adam boka masnam maka’.
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Jai bolo Mahatma Gandhi ki
Posted on: January 30, 2013
Today (30 january 2013) is the 65th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi (2 october 1869- 30 january 1948). He was one leader who genuinely made a change in the world and that was a change for the betterment of people. He was a leader who inspired all the major mass movements of the 20th centuries namely anti colonialism, anti apartheid, and nearer home, anti touchability.
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Ho raat milan ki dil hai pyaasa
Posted on: January 30, 2013
This article is wtitten by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Curiosity is a natural emotion every man has. One is always curious to know about his friends, environment, neighbours, even enemies. This curiosity becomes an urge when the subject of curiosity is a celebrity. Celebrities always show only one side of their life, usually the positive one. People are anxious to know more about them, their private lives etc. That is why autobiographies of celebrities are lapped up by the public.
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“Khidki”(1948) was an Arvind and Anand Production movie. It was produced and directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Ram Singh, Rehana, Kalpana, Jawahar Kaul, V. H. Desai, Radha Krishnan, Leela Misra, Mumtaz Ali, Tiwari etc in it.
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“Sargam” (1950) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by P L Santoshi, The movie had Raj Kapoor, Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc in it.
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Jaani re hum jaani re
Posted on: January 22, 2013
“Saanwariya” (1949) was a Filmistan production movie. It was directed by N A Mansuri. The movie had Ravi Shanker, Hafiz, Jehan, Indu Paul, Shamim Akhtar, Shanti Madhok, Rehman etc in it.
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