Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Chanda chamakti raat
Posted on: April 15, 2013
“Do Dulhe” (1955), by now an obscure movie, was an United Art production movie. It was directed by K J Mahadevan. The movie had Sajjan, Shyama, Lalita Pawar, Vanjana, David Abraham, Agha, Achla Sachdev, Kanhaiyalal, B. M. Vyas, Ishwarlal etc in it.
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“Majboor” (1948) was a Bombay Talkies Production. It was directed by Nazir Ajmeri. The movie had Shyam, Sohan, Amir Banu, Munawwar Sultana, Indu, Shivraj etc in it.
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Hello Mr Dil
Posted on: April 13, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Lata Mangeshkar has sung with G M Durrani only 11 songs, six of them are light-hearted, teasing or ‘sawaal-jawaab’ (question-answer) type. Here is one of such songs ‘ hello mister dil betaab ho kiske liye’ from the film ANAND BHAWAN (1953) sung by them. The star cast included Manhar Desai, Nigar Sultana, Trilok Kapoor, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc. The film had eight songs of which four each were written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan and Noor Lucknawi. The songs were composed by Vasant Desai. One song from the film has been covered in the blog. The song under discussion was written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan.
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I grew up with the music of late 1960s and early 1970s. That was the time when R D Burman burst into the scene like a tornado. When things settled, the musical scene was totally rearranged with old order finding themselves becoming irrelevant in no time.
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“Bahut Din Huye” (1954) was a Gemini Production movie. It was directed by S S Vasan. The movie had Madhubala, M K Radha, Agha, Kanhaiyalal, Savitri, Gulab, Ratan Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Pushpavalli, Kailash, Swaraj etc in it.
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Amma roti de baba roti de
Posted on: April 12, 2013
“Sansaar” (1951) was a Gemini Pictures production. It was directed by S S Vasan. Most actors of this movie were from South Indian movie industry. The movie had Ishwarlal, M. K. Radha, Vanaja, Mohana, Agha, Meera, J. S. Kashyap, Anil Kumar, Kalla, Ratnappa, Pushpavalli, Swaraj, David Abraham etc in it.
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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.
Lata Mangeshkar sang only 11 duets with G M Durrani. 6 out of these 11 have been sung in 1948-49. In the book ‘Lata Mangeshkar …. in her own voice – Conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir’ (2009), she has mentioned that her first song for Naushad was a duet with G M Durrani haay chhore ki zaat badi bewafaa for ‘Chaandni Raat'(1949). At that time Durrani made some personal remarks about the necklace she was wearing. She did not like his remarks and brought this to the notice of Naushad. Knowing that she was a sensitive person, Naushad replaced Durrani and took Sadat Khan for her second duet in the same film. However, this duet was edited out from the film.
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“Mere Huzoor” (1968) was a Movie Moghul production. It was directed by Vinod Kumar. The movie had Mala Sinha, Raj Kumar, Jeetendra, Indira, Manorama, Parveen Paul, Ram Mohan, Surekha, Zeb Rehman, David Abraham, Johnny Walker, K N Singh, Manju etc in it.
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Aa mere galey lag jaa o jaane jaana
Posted on: April 9, 2013
When one talks of a movie called “Baazi”, one normally means the Dev Anand- Geeta Bali starrer of 1952. It turns out that there was another movie with the same title 32 years later. This movie “Baazi” (1984) was a Dharmendra Rekha starrer and it did not have much impact at the box office.
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