Posts Tagged ‘D N Madhok’
Jab baadal ghir ghir aayenge
Posted on: September 14, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a movie produced by an official sounding Production house namely Indian National Pictures Limited. 😀
The movie was directed by M Sadiq and it had actors like Wasti , Suraiyya,Gope,Rampyaari,M Ismail etc. Kamal Kapoor who later went on to have a long career as a baddie in Hindi movies, made his debut in this movie.
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Ho ho ho chaandni raat hai
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a National Pictures production. It was directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Wasti, Suraiyya, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, M Ismail etc in it.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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There are rare sings that one can come across just by stumbling against them while browsing sites like YT. But there are rare songs that cannot be discovered this way. You can find them only when you specifically look for them by the name of the movie, lyricist etc. And such songs may not even be available on YT, that is how rare they are.
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“Do Dil” (1947) is a movie which is directed by Jagdish Sethi. Its cast includes Motilal, Suraiya , Karan Diwan , Badri Prasad etc.
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“Zameendaar” (1942) is a movie that had Shanta Apte, Manorama, Ghulam Mohammad,S D Narang,M Esmail etc in it. This movie, though forgotten along with its music has some wonderful songs in it.
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“Tansen” (1943) is a movie in which K L Saigal had played the title role and he had sung some outstanding songs. all those songs have already been discussed in this blog.
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Maati ka but bhaa gayaa
Posted on: September 3, 2011
“Do Dil” (1947) is a movie directed by Jagdish Sethi. This movie had Motilal,Suraiyya,Karan Dewan,Badri Prasad,Gulab etc in it.
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Kaaghaz ki thhi wo naao
Posted on: September 2, 2011
I just came across this rare song from an obscure movie. The movie is called “Zabaan” (1943) and it had actors like Dixit, Mubarak, Ishwarlal, Kaushalya etc in it. None of these names rings any bell as far as I am concerned.
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“Laal Dupatta” (1948) is a movie produced by Akash Chitra and directed by K B Lall. This by now forgotten movie had Sapru, Madhubala, ulhas, Gulzar, Neelam, Ranjit Kumari, Kesari, Raja Haksar etc in its cast.
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