Posts Tagged ‘Gyan Dutt’
Ek nazar wo yaad hai unki
Posted on: November 25, 2012
Today (25 november) is the birth anniversary of Surinder Kaur (25 november 1929- 15 june 2006), the legendary singer of Punjab who is popularly known as the nightingale of Punjab.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Old film song lovers would be eternally thankful to the internet technologies and the websites hosting video/audio and MP3 clips of these songs which have made it possible to unearth many of the old film songs which were not known to most of us. I have been active on these websites for the last 3 years or so and I can say that not only has this brought back the memories of many songs after a gap of 30-40 years for me, but also brought to my notice some rare songs I was not aware of. I also became aware of some of the lesser known music directors, lyricists and singers. In fact, I had already created my playlist of such songs most of which have been covered in my articles for discussion in this blog.
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Bande bande apna mol chukaana
Posted on: July 13, 2012
“Andhera”(1943) is a very old and forgotten movie by now. This movie had K C Dey, Arun Kumar, Sitara, Kesri etc in it.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is the story of a 16 year old boy born in Peshawar in a conservative Pathan family for whom the association with film industry was a strict taboo. The boy was attracted to Bombay (Mumbai) as a destination. While listening to some Hindi film songs in one of the shops in Peshawar, a few of his friends coaxed him to try his luck as an actor in Hindi film industry since he had a good face. The fascination for Bombay coupled with the remarks from his friends were sufficient motivational factors for this youngboy to leave ( rather run away from) Peshawar for Bombay some time in 1935. The young boy was Ghulam Mustafa Durrani (1919-1988), later known in the Hindi film industry as G M Durrani, the playback singer.
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“Dilruba”(1950) is a movie which was produced by Lotus Orient Films. It was directed by Dwarka Khosla. The star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Rehana, Cuckoo, Yakub, Balam, Achla Sachdev, Gogia Pasha etc.
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Naina panghat bhaye hamaare
Posted on: October 5, 2011
“Shankar Parvati” (1943) is a movie produced by Ranjit movies and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. This movie had actors like Arun, Sadhana Bose,Rewa Shankar, Bhagwandas, Kamla Chatterji, Brajmala etc in it.
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“Anban” (1944) is as obscure a movie as a movie ever can be. Hardly any information is available about this movie now. This movie was directed by N Lahiri. Its star cast included names like Shah Nawaz, David Abraham, Mubarak , Pahari Sanyal, Nargis , Jagirdar , Shobhana Samarth etc.
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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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