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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As I am selecting more songs to post for the composer Usha Khanna, I am actually faced by the dilemma on which ones to post first and which to defer. Every film that she has composed for, contains such musical gems that it is a wonder. Being relegated to the B/C grade films most of the time, Usha Khanna has still done a yeoman’s service to the Hindi film music, producing one great melody after another. Coming across the names of the films for which she has composed music, the first reaction is ‘haanh?, what was that name again’, that is the level of obscurity which pervades her creations.
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Aankh bhar aayi dil bhar aayaa
Posted on: October 18, 2011
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is one of the movies whose songs defined the course that Hindi movie music would take in the decades to come. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie already, including songs that have become far too rare to find.
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Aaja kahin door chalen
Posted on: October 16, 2011
There are various ways by which I come to know about songs that I am not aware of. One of these ways is through the farmaishes of songs by readers. Seeing the backlog of pending farmaishes, it is obvious how much knowledge I have gained about songs that I knew nothing about. 🙂
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Ae phool khushi mein jhoom
Posted on: October 15, 2011
“Aabroo” (1956) was an Uma Chitra Production and it was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Kamini Kaushal, Kishore Kumar, Madan Puri, Achla Sachdev, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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Ae dil dekh liyaa
Posted on: October 14, 2011
“Aabroo” (1956) is a movie produced by Uma Chitra productions. Chaturbhuj Doshi directed the movie. According to information available about this movie, the cast of this movie had Kamini Kaushal, Kishore Kumar, Madan Puri, Achla Sachdev, Smriti Biswas etc in it.
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Chubh gaye do nainaa matwaare
Posted on: October 7, 2011
The era of singing in K L Saigal singing style was over in 1947 with the demise of K L Saigal and new style of singing came into existence. However, there was C H Atma, a K L Saigal devotee, who continued to uphold K L Saigal singing style for another few years.
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Man mein uthhe uchhaale mere
Posted on: September 29, 2011
I had discussed a song from the obscure movie called “Preet” (1945). According to the little information available about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in it.
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“Preet” (1945) is a by now obscure movie. Few people seem to have any idea about this movie. From the little I have been able to find about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in lead roles.
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Regulars of this blog may have noticed that I tend to discuss the songs of a few artists regularly and then after some time, I stop discussing that artist and begin to discuss the songs of some other artist.
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“Sabak” (1950) is a movie that was produced by Sadiq Productions and directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Karan Dewan,Munawwar Sultana, Om Prakash,Jaageerdaar, Jillo etc in it.
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