Posts Tagged ‘Madhubala’
Ruk jaao na jee aisi kyaa jaldi
Posted on: November 16, 2010
In Hindi movies, songs have traditionally played many roles. For one, songs are often the main reason why many people come to watch the movie. In one old movie, which had no songs in it, the maker had to actually explain it to the audience why that movie had no songs. And that explanation cut no ice with the public.
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Sainyyan” (1951) and I thought I had discussed them all. But now I find, much to my pleasant surprise, that there are more songs in this movie. In fact, I have covered only half the songs of this movie, as this movie has ten songs in it. Ten Sajjad Hussain compositions in one movi ! It means that the working conditions during the making of this movie met with Sajjad Hussain’s approval and he did not feel the need to walk out of this movie in a huff unlike quite a few other movies of those days. And the songs that he composed are such delightful songs.
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Baat badhti gayi khel khel mein
Posted on: October 31, 2010
I am not much aware about this movie called “Insaan Jaag Uthaa” (1959). I just found out that this movie had Sunil Dutt and Madhubala in lead roles. I was not aware that these two had acted together in a movie.
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“Sainyya”(1951) is one of the better known movies for which Sajjad Hussain composed music. It means that the songs of this movie are relatively easy to find. I in fact have already discussed as many as four songs from this movie.
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Waapas le le ye jawaani
Posted on: September 29, 2010
In Hindi movies, leading ladies take turns being happy and sad in movies. And that means they sing happy as well as sad songs in the movies.
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“Raajhath” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala. The movie had some nice songs in it.
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We are all familar with the names of music directors whose names figure in the credits of a movie. Sometimes, when one looks closely, one may be able to have a glimpse of the Assistant music director. When I look at the credits of a Hindi movie, I especially look for the screen showing the list of assistants and sometimes I manage to read the name.
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“Raajhath” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mabhubala. This movie had some lovely songs in it. I have posted two songs from this movie already including the fabulous Ye waada karo chand ke saamne.
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Khushiyon ko lootkar yahaan
Posted on: August 31, 2010
In Indian history/mythology/ folk tales, we have been handed down a few love stories, viz “Shirin Farhad”, “Sohni-Mahiwaal”,”Laila-Majnu” etc. All these love stories have one thing in common. And it is the tragic nature of these stories. And that is to be expected seeing that the ground reality in Indian culture does not allow people of opposite genders to openly interacts and fall in love with each other.
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I just stumbled upon a song that is picturised on Suraiyya (then a superstar) and Madhubala (an emerging superstar). This song is from “Singaar” (1949) and it is a showdown song between the two.
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