Posts Tagged ‘C Ramchandra’
Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
ALBELAA (1951) was a musical blockbuster produced and directed by Master Bhagwan. In my childhood days, I had quite often heard ‘shaam dhale khidki tale tum seeti bajaanaa chhod do’ but none of the other songs from the film. I saw this film for the first time on Doordarshan in early 80s. Thereafter, I must have seen this movie a couple of times after I bought VCD of this film last year. This was Bhagwan’s first venture for a big budget film after producing and directing some low budget C grade films. The film was the third highest box office grosser of 1951 ranking after ‘Aawaraa’ and ‘Baazi’. It was an amazing feat for Bhagwan to achieve a box office success with this film despite having a run of the mill story ( probably based on his own life), a lacklustre direction and a non-conventional lead actor like him. The credit goes to the film’s foot tapping songs which became a craze those days and are still popular with the new generation as well.
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Ae mere dil jo chal diye
Posted on: March 21, 2012
Most music lovers are passive music lovers in the sense that they listen to songs that are on the air/TV etc. Then there are active music lovers who like certain songs and they actively seek those songs to listen to.
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Mausam e bahaar yaar
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Sargam” (1950) was a Filmistan production. It was directed by P L Santoshi and the starcast included names like 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.
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Ye hasrat thhi ki iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: March 18, 2012
“Nausherwan e Adil” (1957) was a Minerva Movietone presntation. It was produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. This movie had Raj Kumar, Mala Sinha, Sohrab Modi, Naseem, Bipin Gupta, Murad, Shammi, Amirbano etc in it.
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“Meenar” (1954) is a movie which had Bharat Bhushan, Beena Roy, Pran, Sheila Ramani, Pratima Devi etc in its star cast. This movie has been all but forgotten by now.
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O beta jee
Posted on: March 3, 2012
I have commented in the past that Hindi movie songs are mostly based on topics that are of interest to Indians. But often there are day to day activities that have sadly gone underrepresented in Hindi movie songs.
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“Leela” (1947) is an obscure movie by now. Little information is available about this movie.
I have discussed one song from this movie in the past. Here is another song from the movie.
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“Samadhi” (1950) is a movie which was produced by Filmistan. Ramesh Saigal was its director. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Nalini Jaiwant, Badri Prasad, Mubarak, N. Kabir, David Abraham, Kanta Kumari, Shyam, Kuldip, Colin Pal, S. L. Puri, Shashi Kapoor etc.
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“Aazaad” (1955) was a movie which was produced and directed by S MN S Naidu. He wanted the songs of the movies to be recorded within one month and approached the leading music director of Bombay, viz Naushad to compose the music of this movie (9 songs) within that target period. Naushad snubbed him, saying that it was not possible to create 9 songs in one month. Then Mr Naidu approached other leading music directors and they all refused to take up the assgnment.
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Ghir ghir aayee kaari badariya
Posted on: February 12, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
SHAGOOFAA (1953) was produced by P N Films and Premnath and Bina Rai were lead actors in it. One song has already been discussed. Despite having some melodious songs, the film failed miserably and with that its songs were forgotten.
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