Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Chale aana sanam uthhaaye kadam
Posted on: May 24, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Raj Ratan is the name that I am not familiar with. This music director is making a debut on this blog today. When I came across this name as I checked on this song, it did not sound very familiar. I did some quick scanning of the Geet Kosh, but am not able to locate too much more work done by this composer. In the quick scan I did, I am able to pull up just two more films by him, and that too in the years far apart (‘Ramu Ustad’ in 1971, and ‘Madine Ki Galiyan’ in 1979). It appears as if he is a person who is active in the industry as an assistant music director, and has had an occasional opportunity to independently score music, as a music director.
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“Opera House”(1961) was produced and directed by A G Nadiadwala. The movie had B Saroja Devi, Ajit, Lalita Pawar, Maruti, Balam, S N Banerji, Niranjan Sharma, K N Singh, Mirza Musharraf, Mumtaz Begum, Munshi Munaqqa, Johnny Whisky, Sarjoo Abid, Vikram Kashmiri, Leela, Bela Bose, Abila etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film ‘Teesri Gali’ makes a debut on this blog today. It is one of the lesser known films from 1958. But being that the music direction is by Chitragupt, there are bound to be some very good songs included in this film. And sure enough, the song in this post is a gem that has stayed obscure for too long. A very wonderful and a lilting duet in the voices of Hemant Da and Lata ji.
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Ajeeb hai zindagi ki manzil
Posted on: May 24, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
hain aur bhi duniyaa mein sukhanwar bahut achchhe
kahte hain ki Ghalib kaa hai andaaz-e-bayaan aur
Whenever I remember this maqta of Ghalib’s ghazal, Majrooh Sultanpuri’s name props up in my mind. I always felt how apt it would be if words ‘duniyaa’ and ‘Ghalib’ from the maqta she’r were replaced with ‘filmi jahaan’ and ‘Majrooh’. During Majrooh Sultanpuri’s time, there were renowned poet-lyricists like Sahir Ludhianvi, Shakeel Badayuni, Shailendra, Kaifi Azmi, Jan Nisar Akhtar and later, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar etc. but Majrooh’s andaaz-e-bayaan , the sophistication even in his teasing, racy and light hearted lyrics in Hindi film songs was something which became the hallmark of his style of song writings. He wrote songs trending with the time. Perhaps this explains why Majrooh Sultanpuri had one of the longest innings of over five decades in the Hindi film industry, penning songs for most of the well known music directors – from Naushad in 1946 to A R Rehman in 2000.
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“Ek Ladki Saat Ladke” (1961) was a Filmistan Production movie. It was directed by Roop K Shorey. The movie had Ravindra Kapoor, Ameeta, Badri Prasad, Manju, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Phir wahi raat aayi jaan e jaan
Posted on: May 20, 2013
“Phir Wahi Raat” (1980) was produced by N N Sippy and directed by Danny. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Danny, Kim, Aruna Irani, Lailta Pawar, Jagdeep, Shashikala, A K Hangal, Shubha Khote, Mukri, Suresh Oberoi etc in it.
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O paise tu Bhagwaan nahin
Posted on: May 20, 2013
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The song under discussion today is from the funny film, “Main shadi karne Chala”-62, sung by manna Dey and Mohammad Rafi.
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Ghazab ka hai din socho zara
Posted on: May 20, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Our parents are our first friends. They were the first ones who understood that we are hungry or upset or just bored without our even speaking (of course we would cry very very loudly at all those points but still). But before we came in and wreaked havoc in their lives, the best families are the ones where they were each other’s best friends.
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Ek baar rakh de kadam zara jhoom ke
Posted on: May 19, 2013
In Hindi movies there have been songs picturised on several means of transportation, viz horse, bullock carts, tonga, chariots, cars, jeeps, trucks, boats, aircrafts etc. There have been songs picturised on less common methods of transportation too, viz. camels, elephants etc as well.
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Meri sakhiyon bolo
Posted on: May 17, 2013
“Mela” (1971) was produced by A A Nadiadwala and directed by Prakash Mehra. The movie had Feroz Khan, Mumtaz, Sanjay Khan, Rajendra Nath, Randhir, Lalita Pawar, Master Sachin, Master Ratan, Ram Mohan, Nikita, Mumtaz Begum, Dulari, Kanan Kaushal, Brahm Bhardwaj, Raj Kishore, Bhushan Tiwari, Yunus Parvez etc in it.
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