Posts Tagged ‘Kalyanji’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and wishes for many more happy and healthy returns of today, to the renowned and respected character actor, Shri Krishna Kant. He turns 90 today.
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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.
Before the advent of television and internet, Radio Ceylon (later Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) and Vividh Bharati were the main sources of listening to Hindi film songs. In respect of old Hindi film songs, it was observed that while Radio Ceylon specialised in broadcasting film songs of 40s and 50s, Vividh Bharati’s broadcast was more pronounced towards the songs of late 50s and 60s. Accordingly, during those days of radio, I had categorised songs into ‘Radio Ceylon’ songs and ‘Vividh Bharati’ songs depending upon where these songs were heard the most. 😀
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Main yahaan tu kahaan
Posted on: April 9, 2011
It may be difficult to imagine today but actors like Ashok Kumar and Nirupa Roy used to act in lead roles five decades ago, before they began to play roles of parents. In fact, the two of them were paired opposite each other in lead roles in many movies of late 1950s.
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Nainaa hain jaadoo bhare
Posted on: April 2, 2011
“Bedard Zamaanaa Kyaa Jaane” (1959) was a B grade movie starring Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy,Sudesh Kumar, Jabeen Jaleel etc. This movie is quite significant from music point of view. It was with this movie that Kalyanji Veerji Shah made his debut as an independent music director. Till then, he was assisting to other senior music directors viz Hemant Kumar etc. After another movie (Madaari), Kalyanji was joined by his younger brother Anandji and they formed the by now legendary musical partnership known as Kalyanji Anandji.
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“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) was one of those B grade movies that made it big mainly because of its music. Almost all its songs went on to become very popular and some of the songs are remembered to this day. I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie and it includes the evergreen song Chaahe paas ho chaahe door ho .
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Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. Music directors like C Ramchandra and Vinod, to mention a few, were composing quite a few rock and roll kind of songs those days.
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Here it is again. One more century of songs ! Yes, this song is 3200th song of this blog !
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Mujhe dekh chaand sharmaaye
Posted on: August 22, 2010
In ancient days, leading a spartan life was considered desirable and virtuous and seeking a life of pleasures and luxury was considered improper and a sign of decadence. In Indian history, kings who indulged themselves in such activities were looked down upon. The word used for such undesirable activities was “Bhog-Vilaas” ( comfort and pleasure seeking). Yes, seeking a life of comfort was severely disapproved by the visionaries among ancients.
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Bhar bhar aayen ankhiyaan
Posted on: June 8, 2010
“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) is a by now forgotten movie which starred Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy in lead roles. But the songs of this movie are still remembered by music lovers who like to listen to old songs.
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“Bedard Zamaana kyaa jaane”(1959) is one of the first movies in which Kalyanji gave music solo. Subsequently he was joined by his younger brother Anandji to form the well known music director duo of Kalyanji Anandji.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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