Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
“Mashaal” (1950) is a movie That had Ashok Kumar, Sumitra Devi and Rooma Devi in lead roles. This movie had some nice songs in it including the song Upar gagan vishaal which launched Manna Dey’s career as a playback singer.
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Ae ishq ye sab duniyaa waale
Posted on: August 18, 2011
A movie like “Mughal e Azam” (1960) can boggle one’s mind even today, more than half a century after this movie was released. And I am not just taliking about the movie. I am talking about several aspects of the movie. It was a magnum opus in every respect.
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Duniya banaane waale Raamjee
Posted on: August 17, 2011
“Baap Beti” (1954) is an obscure movie. Not much information is available about this movie on internet, and the sketchy information available on it could well be misleading and wrong, seeing that Asha Parekh’s name gets mentioned as an actor in this movie, and that too in the entry of imdb ! That site also mentions that it is a Bimal Roy movie based on a Guy de Maupassant novel and that it had Nalini Jaiwant and Tabassum too in it. Now this information appears more likely. Tabassum , then a young kid could have played Beti. But who played the Baap ? I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this matter.
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Tum laakh chhupaanaa chaahoge
Posted on: August 16, 2011
In his earlier days,Shammi Kapoor used to ape the mannerisms of Raj Kapoor, his elder brother and a successful hero of those days. But Shammi Kapoor finally found his calling when he developed his own style which helped him carve a unique niche for himself.
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“Teesra Kaun” (1965) is a movie that had Feroz Khan and Kalpana in it. This movie was apparently a B grade spy thriller.
This was one of the earlier movies of the an up and coming music director called R D Burman.
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Piyaa kaise miloon tujhse
Posted on: August 12, 2011
“Saarangaa” (1960) is a B grade movie starring Sudesh Kumar and Jayshree Gadkar. According to my axiom, a B grade movie must have A grade music. and this movie fully lives up to this axiom. This movie is full of outstanding songs.
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Bolo to bolo to bolo to
Posted on: August 12, 2011
In olden days there used to be movies with titles like “School Girl” (1947), “School Master” (1959), ‘College Girl” (1960) etc. It shows that education, especially for girls, was considered important those days. 😀
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These days I have become interested in statistics regarding Rafi Lata duets. I have mentioned that Rafi and Lata figured in some 410 plus duets. Their very first duet was recorded in 1947 and it was for a movie called “Shaadi Se Pehle” (1947). It was followed by a one year hiatus and then they recorded as many as 17 duets in 1949.
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Oodi oodi chhaayi ghataa
Posted on: August 10, 2011
Though I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Amar” (1954) already, I was not aware of this song till its lyrics were sent to me by Atif M.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hansraj Behl had a career in Hindi films that lasted from 1946 to 1979, and he was one of the more successful and popular music directors in the post independence years. Creator of many iconic songs in the 50s and 60s, Hansraj Bahl’s music has a semi classical touch, with roots in his earlier training in classical music. He has been a very active music director for Punjabi movies also, and there is a large number of very popular Punjabi films songs that are composed by him.
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