Posts Tagged ‘Chitragupta’
Teri shokh nazar ka ishaaraa
Posted on: February 17, 2011
Lyrics for this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of lyrics for this blog
By now, most music lovers who are a regular of this blog must have come to the same conclusion about Chitragupta as I have concluded- that he was a grossly underrated and underutilised music director. Most of his music was given in B movies which did not catch the attention of mainstream movie goers. But what music these movies had !
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Din raat badalte hain
Posted on: February 8, 2011
“Naya Sansaar” (1959) is quite an obscure movie. Few people seem to be aware of any details about the cast of this movie. This appears to be a B grade movie that failed at the box office.
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Here is a forgotten gem from a forgotten B grade movie called “Police Detective” (1960). This movie had Sujit Kumar and Shyama in lead roles.
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Aankh jhuki si chaal ruki si
Posted on: February 4, 2011
This writeup is provided by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of articles for this blog.
There are some songs that grow on you. And there are some songs you fall in love with the very first time you hear them. It is like “love at first hear” instead of “love at first sight”.
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“Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp” (1952) was a Wadia Movietone movie based on the well known Arabian Night tale. In this movie, Mahipal and Meena Kumari play the lead roles.
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“Badaa Aadmi” (1961) is a by now forgotten movie. It was a B grade movie with lesser known actors like Sheikh Mukhtaar, Vijaya Chaudhary etc in it.
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In the olden and golden days of Hindi movies,great music was created not only in mainstream A grade movies, but also in lower budget B grade movies. There was a glut of talented music directors and even low budget movie producers were in a position to hire high class music directors.
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Balmaa maane naa
Posted on: December 4, 2010
“Opera House” (1961) was a B grade movie starring Ajit, B Saroja Devi, K N Singh, Maruti, Niranjan Sharma,Baalam etc. Many of the so called B grade movies of those days are indistinguishable from A grade stuff, except for low budget. And as far as the music of these movies were concerned. The music was invariably A grade.
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Aag lagaanaa kyaa mushqil hai
Posted on: November 30, 2010
Party songs/club songs where a female dancer sings and dances became a staple diet of Hindi movies in 1950s. Geeta Dutt was one of the first (if not the first) singer who sang such songs. As for the actors on whom such songs were picturised, there were many, ranging from dancers (Cuckoo, for instance) to heroines (Geeta Bali, for instance). Quite a few of these songs became very popular.
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Tod ke do nainon ka taalaa
Posted on: November 25, 2010
Most people may be under the impression that Helen appeared in cabarat/ club dance kind of songs throughout her career and that Asha Bhonsle was the playback singer for her in these songs.
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