Posts Tagged ‘Ghulam Mohammad’
People intersted in old Hindi movie music often come across names that may confuse people. For instance, there are people who confuse between Naushad and Nashaad. Then there are people (including some who are regarded as knowledgeable by others as well as by themselves) who think that Ghulam Haider and Ghulam Mohammad are one and the same ! A few years back, I was listening to an audiocast (I think the actual tem used in different) of a programme on old songs. The presenter presented a song from “Shaheed, viz. Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawaan shaheed ho (Shaheed) . After the song, the presenter informed the listeners that the music of this song was compose by Ghulma Haider, and that music lovers are awrae of this music director for his compositions in “Paakeeza” (1972). After listening to this sentence, I lost all respect for the knowledge of the presenter about old Hindi movies.
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Maine sapna jo dekha hai raat
Posted on: March 31, 2013
“Hanste Aansoo” (1950) was one of the first Hindi movies to get an Adult certificate from the censors. The reasons for getting A certificate those days used to be quite flimsy. For instance, “Barsaat” (1949) had become the first Hindi movie to get an A certificate. The reason why censors were provoked thus was that the female actors in the movies, viz Nargis, Nimmi etc are shown without dupattas and in one song there is even the talk of dupatta flying away in the breeze, viz. Hawa me udta jaaye mora laal dupatta malmal ka. 🙂 And the censors were righteously indignant about all this. 🙂
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“Laila Majnu” (1953) was an All India Production movie. It was directed by K Amarnath. The movie had Nutan and Shammi Kapoor in title roles, with Ratan Kumar, Ulhas, Begum Para, Kammo, Wasti etc also there in supporting roles.
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Bhar de jholi Allah naam
Posted on: February 14, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
LAILA MAJNU(1953) was produced by P N Arora under the banner of All India Pictures and directed by K Amarnath. The star cast included Shammi Kapoor, Nutan, Ulhas, Begum Para, Wasti, Kammo, Ratan Kumar etc. All the songs of this film were penned by Shakeel Badayuni. However, the film had two music directors – Ghulam Mohammed (11 songs) and Sardar Malik (3 songs).
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a song from film ‘Shair’ (1949). I am not sure if that is the correct name for this film. If the name is ‘Shaayar’ or ‘Shaayir’ than it will mean ‘the poet’. If it is ‘Shair’ than it is ‘a couplet’. Eight songs from this film have appeared in this blog. I was able to find only one Rafi song in this film which is luckily not posted.
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Lehron mein jhool ke
Posted on: December 2, 2012
“Do Gunde”(1959) was a Minerva Movietone Pictures. It was directed by V M Vyas. The movie had Ajit, Kumkum, Pran, Raj Kumar, Jayshree Gadkar, Subiraj etc in it.
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Aawaaz de raha hai koi
Posted on: November 30, 2012
“Gauhar” (1953) was an All Indian Pictures production. It was directed by F H Hassan. The movie had Bina Rai, Rehman, Agha, Vijaylaxmi, Chaman Puri, Charlie, Cuckoo etc in it.
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“Hoor e Arab”(1955) was an All India Pictures Production. This movie was directed by P N Arora. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Chitra, Sajjan, Shashikala, Om Prakash, Gope etc in it.
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I am told that a section of movie watchers in the past were addicted to melancholism the same way some people are addicted to alcoholism. They would watch sad melancholic movies and come out of the movie hall immensely satisfied after shedding bucketful of tears during their stay in the movie hall.
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