Posts Tagged ‘Kaifi Azmi’
Forgetting important dates in one’s life always puts people in embarrassing and often tricky situations. My absentmindedness means that I am no staranger to such situations. If one forgets important dates in one’s personal life (spouse’s birthday, wedding anniversary etc), then heaven hath no fury like a spouse scorned. My wife has stopped talking to her siblings if they forgot to recall these dates. Fortunately, I get bailed out of such tricky situations by our daughter who remembers these dates.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today happens to be the 10th death anniversary of Kaifi Azmi, one of the foremost Indian Urdu poets of the 20th century. It was on the 10th of May 2002 that Kaifi saab breathed his last.
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“Main Suhaagan Hoon” (1964) was a Nayyar films production. It was directed by Kundan Kumar. Star cast of the movie included names like Ajit, Mala Sinha, Nishi, Kewal Kumar etc.
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On the occasion of Kaifi Azmi’s birthday (19th january), we are discussing a few songs written by Kaifi Azmi.
Here is a song from “Arth” (1982). This song, which is picturised as a get together song, is sung by Jagjeet Singh. It is picturised on Raj Kiran, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda etc. Kaifi Azmi is the lyricist. Music is composed by Kuldeep Singh Chitra Singh and Jagjit Singh.
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“Naina” (1972) is an obscure movie despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this blog. This movie was produced by Babubhai Shah and directed by Kanak Mishra. The star cast consisted of names like Shashi kapoor, Rajshree,Mousmi Chatterjee, Padma Khanna, Praveen Paul, David Abraham, Rehmaan, Akashdeep, Sanjana, Sunder, Shaukat Kaifi Azmi etc.
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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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I have mentioned in the past that most movie songs that we get to listen to are from movies that were released. But there are cases when a movie fails to get released but a few of its songs get released and some of them even become popular.
Then there are some cases when the movie as well as the songs remain unreleased for decades, before someone decided to release the audio of the songs from the still unreleased movie.
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“Hindustan Ki Kasam”(1973) is a movie which was produced by Ravi Anand and directed by Chetan Anand. The movie had Raj Kumar, Priya Rajwansh,Chetan Anand, Vijay Anand, , Amjad Khan, Raj Kumar, Priya Rajvansh, Balraj Sahni, Ajay Sahni, Padma Khanna, Amrish Puri, Satyen Kappu, Nitin Sethi, etc in it.
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“Ek ke baad ek” (1960) is a movie which was produced by Raj Kala and directed by Raj Rishi. The star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Tarla, S. K. Prem, Radhakrishan, Hiralal, Ravikant, Sharda, Prabhu Dayal, Madhu Apte etc.
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Mere dil mein tu hi tu hai
Posted on: October 11, 2011
The news came in yesterday that the renowned Ghazal Singer Jagjit Singh was no more. And I was surprised to know that he was 70 years of age when he died. And then I realised that I had first heard his ghazals in 1980s, which happens to be three decades ago. So he was indeed that old.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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