Posts Tagged ‘Geeta Dutt’
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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Kabul ki main naar
Posted on: January 20, 2013
“Krorepati” (1961) was a Saigal Brothers Production. It was produced by Om Prakash Saigal and directed by Mohan Saigal. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Shashikala (Producer’s wife), Kumkum, K. N. Singh, Anoop Kumar, Mirza Musharaff, Radhakishan, Haroon, S. Bannerjee, Ramlal, Shamlal, Brahm Bharadwaj, Daya Devi, Pal Sharma, Prem, Dev Chand etc in it.
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Ae dil bata kisko karoon pyaar
Posted on: January 18, 2013
This blog has 78 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain and that leaves about 20 more Sajjad Hussain songs that are yet to be covered.
These remaining songs are rare songs that are difficult to find and they may be available only with private dedicated collectors. I had mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I had the privilege of meeting Mr Bakshshish Singh in Sudhir jee’s residence. He has a nice collection of old and obscure songs and he is ever willing to share them. While leaving, he left his portable hard disk with Sudhir jee for him to see what was useful for him. Next day, when I was again in Sudhir Jee’s residence, I looked at the contents of the hard disk and copied some of it as may fit in my pen drive.
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Sau baras par preetam ghar aaye
Posted on: January 9, 2013
“Raami Dhoban” (1953) was a Navkala Production movie. It was direcyted by Indu Kumar. The movie had Jairaj, Nirupa Roy, Ulhas, Trilok Kapoor, Sapru, Ranjana, Kamini Kaushal etc in it.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hindi film music became people oriented, in the real sense, from Khazanchi-1941. Till then HFM was ,as if, in the clutches of Classical and stage music.
The begining of the Fifth decade of the 20th century was a revolutionary period for Film Industry. Mehboob, Kardar, K.Asif, V.Shantaram, Filmistan etc established their own studios and started producing meaningful cinemas. It also brought a new dimension to film music. This decade showed that Good Music, on its own, can make a film successful at the box-office, irrespective of other factors like cast, plot etc.
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Dil ke paar ho gayee
Posted on: January 3, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
1960 saw the release of the famous film ‘Bambai Ka Babu’. With Dev Anand and Suchitra Sen in the lead and music by SD Burman, this film did well to stay put in the memory of the viewers and listeners. In the same year, another ‘Bambai’ film was released, that seemed to have disappeared without making any impact, and there is nothing one hears about it.
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Kaise rokoge aise toofaan ko
Posted on: January 3, 2013
“Anand Math” (1952) was a Filmistan Production. It was directed by Hemen Gupta. This movie had Ajit, Prithviraj Kapoor, Pradip Kumar, Bharat Bhushan, Geeta Bali, S. L. Puri, Jankidas, Ranjana, Murad etc in it.
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Mujhe wo dekh kar jab muskuraayen
Posted on: January 3, 2013
“Zalzala” (1952) was an Art Film of Asia production. This movie was directed by Paul Zils. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Dev Anand, Geeta Bali, Jagdev, Sunalini Devi, Manju, Seeta Bose etc in it.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa aaja
Posted on: January 3, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The name Hanuman Prasad paints a picture of a Pehelwan playing kushti in an akhaada. Guru Hanuman and his akhaada in North India is quite famous.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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