Posts Tagged ‘Hansraj Bahl’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Khul Jaa Sim Sim – the name itself suggests that this is going to be a fantasy adventure film, based on the tale of Alibaba, Chaalis Chor from the Arabian Nights. Released in 1956 under the banner of Golden Films, Bombay, the film is produced by Mulkhraj Bhakri (readers may recognize this name as a lyricist also), and is directed by Nanubhai Vakil. A grade B fantasy adventure, the main actors in this films are Mahipal, Shakila, Maruti, Heeralal, Helen, Niranjan Sharma, Krishna Kumari, Naazi, Sadiq, Vijaya Kumari etc.
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Ho meri ek nazar ke do do asar
Posted on: August 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Think of a music director from Punjab, preparing music for a film whose story is set in Bombay. And one of the songs is based on the local folk dance of Maharashtra. And guess what you will get? A Lavani based song spiced with exclamations of ‘haishaa’. And if you don’t believe me, well just go ahead and listen to this wonderful folk dance song from the 1957 film Miss Bombay. (NOTE: ‘haishaa’ is an exclamation that is used often in Punjabi folk songs.).
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hansraj Behl had a career in Hindi films that lasted from 1946 to 1979, and he was one of the more successful and popular music directors in the post independence years. Creator of many iconic songs in the 50s and 60s, Hansraj Bahl’s music has a semi classical touch, with roots in his earlier training in classical music. He has been a very active music director for Punjabi movies also, and there is a large number of very popular Punjabi films songs that are composed by him.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Nimmi in lead roles.
I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. This song is a rare song which is not available on youtube as far as I know.
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De de mora kangnaa
Posted on: August 6, 2011
“Rajdhani”(1956) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had actors like Sunil Dutt,Nimmi, Johny Walker,Durga Khote,Purnima,Naaz,Tiwari etc in it. This N C Films movie was directed by Naresh Saigal.
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Ye kiski yaad aa gayi
Posted on: July 17, 2011
“Rajput” (1951) is a by now obscure movie which had P Jairaj, Suraiyya, Kuldip Kaur, Shakuntala, Leela Mishra, D K Sapru, Mumtaz Begam etc in it. This Jubilee pictures movie was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri.
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