Posts Tagged ‘Hansraj Bahl’
Ham kyun rote hain raaton ko
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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Hotel ka kinaara ho
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Gunsundari” (1948) is an obscure movie by now. But as far as we are concerned, we know a great deal about this movie, thanks to the details provided by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Dekh hamen muskaaye kyun
Posted on: April 12, 2013
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributo to this blog.
Kedar Sharma, a career that started with a paint brush, and then went on to scale exceptional heights of creative cinema, and in the process helped to start many a famous careers in the industry. The eminent showman, Raj Kapoor, revered him as his guru. Many a famous artists made their debut in his films – Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Bharat Bhushan, Tanuja etc. He was the inspiration and the encouragement for a whole generation of performers and directors in the early decades of the industry.
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Kyaa paaya duniya ne
Posted on: April 9, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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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.
Recently, I listened to a song ‘is dil se teri yaad bhulaayi nahi jaati’ on YT sung by Mohammed Rafi. The song sounded familiar to me. My first impression was that this song was from an old film. But the uploader of the audio clip mentioned that it was a NFS composed by Hansraj Bahl. I never knew that Mohammed Rafi had sung any NFS under the baton of Hansraj Bahl. One of the regulars on YT whom I consider to be fairly reliable has mentioned that this song was written by Rajinder Krishan as he had heard his name being mentioned by the announcer on Radio Ceylon while playing this song. Since the composition as well as rendition of this song gave me an impression of a filmy song, I searched for other audio clips of the same song and got my hand on an audio clip where the uploader had claimed that the song was from the film ‘Kaneez’ (1949). The film had two music director – Ghulam Haider and Hansraj Bahl and the song was accredited by the uploader to Ghulam Haider-Hansraj Bahl.
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Tera kaanton se pyaar
Posted on: February 4, 2013
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is one more duet by Mohammed Rafi and Geeta Dutt from the film ‘Chunariya’ (1948). Music Director is Hansraj Behl and lyricist is Mulkraj Bhakri. Four songs of this film are already posted in the blog and none of them are having video links. The songs of this film are specially poignant with these two solos by Lata and Rafi, viz. Dil e nashaad ko jeene ki hasrat ho gayee tumse and Sab kuchh lutaayaa hamne aakar teri gali mein. The song I am discussing also just has an audio link. But from the tone of the song I can guess that it is a ‘ beggar’s song ‘. The words are not really begging but the composition is such that it can not fit any other situation.
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Dil e naadaan zamaane mein
Posted on: January 2, 2013
“Mast Qalandar” (1955) was an N C Films production. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Mahipal, Shakila, Kuldip Kaur, Agha, Niranjan Sharma, Tiwari, Johnny Walker, Ratnamala etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘Changez Khan’, the film from 1957, boasts of the iconic Rafi rendition “Mohabbat Zinda Rehti Hai. Mohabbat Mar Nahin Sakti”. Coming from the banner of NC films, this is a home production of Hansraj Behl and his family. The film is produced by Gulshan Behl (brother of Hansraj Behl), and is directed by Kedar Kapoor. The star cast is impressive and includes Premnath, Bina Rai, Sheikh Mukhtar, Johnny Walker, Jeevan, Tiwari, Leela Misra, Ramesh Thakur, Helen, Khursheed, Sandow, Jai Singh, Satpal, Bakshi, Chaman Lal, Aazam, B Saagar. The songs of this film are penned by three poets – Qamar Jalaalabaadi, Saraswati Kumar ‘Deepak’ and Verma Malik. This particular song is written by Qamar Jalaalabaadi. And yes, the music is by Hansraj Behl. The film has a total of six songs, four of which are already present on this blog. This here is a very sweet and a very lilting melody, the fifth one from this film to make it here.
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Dil toota aur armaan lutey
Posted on: December 12, 2012
“Roomaal” (1949) was produced by Varuna Films and directed by Ramchandra Thakur. The movie had Rehman, Jairaj, Nargis, Jilloo Maa, Cuckoo, Badri Prasad, Jeevan, Majnu, Mukesh etc in it.
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“Karwat” (1949) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Shree Gopal Pictures production movie. It was directed by Prakash. The movie had Bhagwan, Satish, Leela Gupte, Baburao, Deepak, Ratanpriya, Anwari, Vasantrao etc in it.
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