Posts Tagged ‘Hemant Kumar’
Today (19 january) is the date of birth of Kaifi Azmi. To many music lovers of younger generations, he may be a lesser known name, and even to me, he was a “boring” lyricist when I was growing up. Having grown up (hopefully) 🙂 I have come to appreciate Kaifi Azmi better. We have over one hundred Kaifi Azmi songs in this blog and that speaks volumes about the fact that Kaifi Azmi was one of the major contributors in making the Golden era of Hindi movie music what it was, viz a memorable era for music lovers.
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On the occasion of C Ramchandra’s death anniversary (5 january), we are discussing some special songs composed by C Ramchandra.
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Ye bahaaron ka samaa
Posted on: December 30, 2011
Datta Naik was born in Goa, which was then a Portuguese colony. He came to Bombay to try his luck as a music director. Initially he acted as an assistant to S D Burman before starting out as an independent music director. He changed his name to N Datta by re ordering the sequence of his name.
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“Ham Bhi Insaan Hain” (1959) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was produced by V A K Productions. R Majumdar was the director. The sar cast included names like Abhi Bhattacharya, Lata Sinha, Anil Kumar, Kumar, Dhumal,Chaman Puri, Samar Roy, Lalita Kumari etc. Most names in the cast ring no bells. In other words, this movie was a B grade movie.
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If regulars of this blog are wondering at the reasons behind the reduced output of this blog in the previous days, including no song yesterday, the reason is, I am at a place now where access to internet, especially of the required speed is at a premium. This is in addition to the fact that I am not in a position to get adequate access to internet either. Hopefully things will begin to look up in coming days.
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“Sahaara” (1958) was a Tasweeristaan Production. It was directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The movie had M Rajan,Meena Kumari, Manoj Kumar, Sunder, Badri Prasad, Kuldip Kaur, Kanhaiyalal, Daisy Irani, Leela Misra, Nirnajan Sharma etc in it.
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Jai Jagdeesh harey
Posted on: November 25, 2011
“Anand Math” (1952) is a novel written by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay which was first published in 1882. This novel served as a major source of inspiration for Indian freedom fighters against the British rulers. The British rulers banned this novel and this ban was lifted only after India gained independence. “Vandematram”, a song contained in the novel became Indian’s national song.
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Ital ke ghal mein teetal
Posted on: November 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
People who love music, never grow up – that is my theory. The logic goes like this. A true music lover will never lose the capacity to be thrilled at hearing a new song, a new melody that is fun or poignant, and touches the heart. If a person does not have this characteristic, then it is difficult for that person to appreciate music. Now, being thrilled at something new is a hallmark characteristic of a child. Hence, people who have this capacity and love music, always have a child’s heart and mind within, and hence they never grow up. QED. 🙂
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Bhaj man Narayan Narayan
Posted on: November 6, 2011
“Prabhu Ki Maaya” (1955) is a movie produced by Filmistan and directed by Vithaldas Panchotiya. This movie had Mubarak, Kanta, Jharna, Prem Adeeb, Narmada Shanker, Uma Devi, Mumtaz Begum, P. Kailash etc in it.
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“Taj” (1956) was a Dossi Films production. It was produced by Fali Mistry and directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. The movie had Pradeep kumar,Vyjayanthimala, Bipin Gupta, Jeevan, Kammo, Shakunthala, Amar,Jajo, Kathana, Helen, Qamar, Roopmala, Ulhas etc in it.
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