Posts Tagged ‘Khan Mastana’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
There are instances of Hindi film artists, especially of the 30s to 50s who rose to great heights in their filmy career but died as paupers and penniless. For instance, Chandramohan, the most handsome actor of his time who captivated the audience with his acting prowess (and also with his eyes) in films like ‘Amritmanthan’ (1934), ‘Pukar’ (1941), ‘Roti’ (1942), ‘Humaayun’ (1945) and ‘Shaheed’ (1948) died in 1949 in acute poverty at a young age of 44. It is said that his funeral expenses were borne by his close friend Motilal. But after 16 years of Chandramohan’s death, Motilal also died in 1965 almost penniless.
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Panchhi pinjra hua puraana
Posted on: September 28, 2013
“Dhanna Bhagat” (1945) was a movie about which little information is available. And the available available may not even be accurate.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Earlier in the week, I have posted two songs, on the request of Sikander Esmail Sb of the USA. The songs are “Mann Pagley Sapan Dikhaaye”, and “Tumhen Dil Se Jaane Nahin Denge Hum”.
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Khushi ki aas rahi dil ko
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Saawan Aaya Re” (1949) was a Hindustan Chitra Production. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu, Pratima Devi, Ramola, Sofia, Mohana, Gulab, Anant Prabhu, Promoth Bose, David Abraham, Ramesh Gupta etc in it.
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Dil e naadaan tujhe huaa kyaa hai
Posted on: March 18, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In recent years, there has been a trend in Hindi film industry to make sequels of the box office hit films. Sequel films are said to be comparatively risk free as the success formula has already been tested. The earliest sequel film that I spotted on the internet was ‘Hunterwali Ki Beti’ (1943) which was supposed to be a follow-up of ‘Hunterwali’ (1935). I doubt whether the maker (Wadia brothers) of these two films ever thought in terms of a sequel but the story of the later film seems to be a follow up of the first film. Fearless Nadia (real name Marry Ann Evans) the first stunt heroine in the Indian film industry, John Cawas and Bhoman Shroff were part of the cast in both these films which were box office hits.
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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.
In my school days, I had read about many heroic events of Indian history like Maharana Pratap viz. Emperor Akbar, Shivaji vs Aurangzeb, Rani Laxmibai vs. British East India Company etc. All the opponents were villains to me and I hated them for their wrong doings.
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Mohe ratiyaa neend na aaye
Posted on: August 1, 2012
These days people fight elections to come to power and once they get a taste for it, then want to cling to it at any cost. During mythological times, the King of gods, viz Lord Indra would cling to his chair like a leech. One did not have to fight elections to come to power those days. One needed to do tapasya (penance) in a jungle for long years. Whenever a tapaswi sage would decide to go to a jungle and do “tapasya”, Lord Indra would get worried, thinking that the sage was after his chair. So he would try to disrupt the “tapasya”.
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Panghat pe ek chhabeeli
Posted on: March 5, 2012
Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie. I am quite sceptical about the details provided in YT with the song. The movie is called “Main Hari”. What does it mean ? Perhaps the title is something more meaningful than that.
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Zindagi hai ya koi toofaan hai
Posted on: August 7, 2011
“Zindagi Ya Toofaan” (1958) is a movie that had Pradeep Kumar,Nutan,Johny Walker and Minu Mumtaz in it. The movie as well as its songs are not all that well known these days. But that has not stopped me from discussing a couple of songs from this movie.
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Aankhon mein hai tu
Posted on: July 3, 2011
“Laila Majnu” (1953) is one of the earlier movies of Shammi Kapoor and here he had played the role of Majnu opposite Nutan playing Laila.
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