Posts Tagged ‘Madan Mohan’
Ye raah badi mushqil hai
Posted on: September 13, 2009
Listen to this song and one may think that this is an O P Nayyar composition. I thought so too. But when I found out the details of this song, I found that this song was composed by Madan Mohan.
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Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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Do din ki muhabbat mein ham ne
Posted on: September 4, 2009
Many Madan Mohan movies are not even known, because these movies were box office disasters. These movies are very difficult to find. “Chhote Babu” (1957) is one such movie.
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“Mohar” (1959) was a movie starring Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali, but not much is known about this movie today. This movie has flopped badly at the box office. And as luck would have it, Madan Mohan was the music director of this movie. Seeing his movie bomb at the box office was a fate that Madan Mohan suffered in most of the 92 movies in which he gave music.
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Madan Mohan is mostly known for his immortal ghazals, but he has created other genre of music as well. In fact, for much of 1950s, his music direction style was not well defined. His music during this period often resembled the music of many other sources.
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Dil dil se milaakar dekho
Posted on: July 19, 2009
I have loved this song, and recently I watched this movie. The movie was nice, and it was there that I realised that this song had two versions, one sung by Asha Bhonsle and the other by Kishore Kumar.
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Dariya kaa kinaara
Posted on: July 10, 2009
I have watched a few songs of “Bank Manager” (1959) and I have noticed that Meenu Mumtaz seems to have a long role in this movie. She certainly has got a few songs to sing in this movie.
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Most movies in which Madan Mohan gave music are obscure movies. But the music in all those movies, irrespective of the quality of such movies (indifferent most of the time) has always been top quality.
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I was aware of one song from “Bank Manager” (1959) which I had posted in the past. Now I see that other songs from this movie are also available.
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Kyaa saath meraa doge
Posted on: July 2, 2009
“Samundar” (1957) is a forgotten movie. It had Premnath as hero ( double role) and Bina Rai as heroine.
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