Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Yahi bahaar hai
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Raag Rang” (1952) was produced under the banner of Bali Sisters (Geeta Bali and Sudha Bali). The movie was directed by Digvijay and the movie had Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Agha, Madan Puri, Sunder, Ruma Guha Thakurta etc in it. Three songs from this movie have been discussed in the past. Here is another song from “Raag Rang”(1952).
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Tum chaand ke saath chale aao
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Aashiaana”(1952) was a Sabharwal’s production. It was directed by B Trilochan. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Iftekhar, Mohana, Randhir etc in it.
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Tu pyaar maange pyaar de doon
Posted on: September 9, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ah Ganesh, the unsung genius composer, creator of incredible melodies and rhythms that almost never got picturized on the so called grade A stars of his time. His songs, buzzing with hummable and memorable tunes, played themselves out in B and C grade cinema halls, in productions that were considered of the same categories. Some of his songs escaped this banishment to the C grade world, and found a place on the radio waves, and in the mind and memories of listeners. Some such songs have remained in the memories; but then there are many other remarkable creations from him that await re-discovery by aficionados.
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O baabu kaise dil karoon qaaboo
Posted on: September 9, 2012
“Sagaai”(1951) was a Varma Films production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Premnath, Rehana, Sunder, Cuckoo, Gope, Yakub, Vijayalaxmi, Purnima, Mohana, Iftekhar etc in it.
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This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Yesterday I was just browsing in the blog and also looking for a song of Asha Bhosle to send on her birthday. Two days ago someone’s comment alerted me that Asha Bhonsle’s birthday is approaching. I remembered that last year I had sent the lyrics of this song from “sujata’.
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Aa aaja o jaane wafaa
Posted on: September 8, 2012
Today (8 september) is the birthday of S Mohinder, a music director of yesteryears who gave us some wonderful songs in the golden era of Hindi movie music. Born in 1925, S Mohinder composed music in movies like “Sehra” (1948), “Jeewan Saathi” (1949), “Shrimatiji”(1952), “Bahaadur” (1953), “Paapi” (1955), “Naata”(1955), “Shehzaada” (1955), “Kaarwaan” (1956), “Shirin Farhad” (1956), “Mehlon Ke Khwaab” (1960), “Picnic” (1966) etc. He is one of those music directors who were criminally underutilised by the Hindi movie music industry.
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Aao baithho baat suno
Posted on: September 7, 2012
Today (7 september) is G M Durrani’s death anniversary. G M Durrani, who began his playback career in 1930s, was active till 1950s. He had become so popular by early 1940s that the then up and coming Rafi regarded G M Durrani as his idol.
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Today (7 september) is the death anniversary of P L Santoshi (7 august 1916- 7 september 1978). His actual name was Pyarelal Srivastava and he was born in Jabalpur, the same place that Premnath came from.
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“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) was a Filmyug production movie. It was directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Vyjyanti Mala, Rajendra KuUmar, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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