Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Babam babam bam bam lehri
Posted on: April 4, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This post is a special post that celebrates the 400th song of Mukesh on this blog. Given that the total list of all known recordings of songs by Mukesh ji is just a little below one thousand (including all songs from Hindi films – 861, all songs from regional language films – 62, and non film renditions – 69), we are very close to hosting 50% of all the known film songs of Mukesh here. The numbers listed above are all the songs that are currently identified and for which the recordings are available. There definitely are more songs that have been recorded, but that have not been released and are not available, at least at present. Maybe someday, more songs may be uncovered and brought into circulation, but the thinking is that the number of such songs may not be very large in any case.
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Dekho bijli doley bin baadal ke
Posted on: April 4, 2012
O P Nayyar would not employ the voice of Lata Mangeshkar in his compositions, but no one found it ironic that Lata Mangeshkar’s younger sister became the mainstay of O P Nayyar compositions.
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Thhaade rahiyo o baanke yaar
Posted on: March 31, 2012
When one looks at the calender of Hindi movie music, one finds that almost every day of the year is important in one respect or the other. Today (31st march) for instance is the day when Meena Kumari expired exactly 40 years ago. I was a school kid at that time and we school kids, on hearing this news opined that “Paakeeza”, the much awaited movie of Meena Kumari would benefit from her death. And the judgement of us pre teen kids turned out to be accurate. 🙂 What Prophetic kids we were those days! 🙂
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Chal diye banda nawaaz
Posted on: March 24, 2012
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Mr and Mrs 55” (1955) and I was under the impression that all songs of the movie had been covered. But I was wrong of course. There are still at least a couple of songs from this movie yet to be discussed.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Caarvaan” (1971) is one of the first films that I remember having seen on the big screen. And I was then too young to understand the sentiments of sensuality. In later years, when I would revisit this film, on TV and in reruns, I would be more mature to appreciate the emotions and passions ensconced in this song. This film was the probably the first film in which Aruna Irani attracted attention as an accomplished character actor with a wholesome meaty role as a gypsy girl, so much in love with a truck driver.
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Baaten kahin aur banaao
Posted on: March 22, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) is a forgotten movie with music that deserves to be much better known among music lovers. Not much was known about this movie, but now Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our in house expert has provided us with all the details that we may like to know about this movie.
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Ae mere dil jo chal diye
Posted on: March 21, 2012
Most music lovers are passive music lovers in the sense that they listen to songs that are on the air/TV etc. Then there are active music lovers who like certain songs and they actively seek those songs to listen to.
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This song is not one that too many people may have heard before. Those who hear this song for the first time will immediately exclaim that the song has the same tune as Ho leke pahla pahla pyaar (CID) . As it is, the composer is the same for both the songs, but as for being the original, this song is the original and the better known song from CID is the inspired song.
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Munna taaron ka raaja
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Batwaara” (1961) was a Deep and Sandeep Production movie. In other words, this movie was produced by Pradeep Kumar with his brother. Karunesh Thakur directed the movie and the starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Rehman, Jabeen Jalil, Leela Chitnis, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti, Shashikala, Jawahar Kaul etc.
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Ye hawa ye fiza ye samaa
Posted on: March 17, 2012
“Taxi Stand” (1958) is an obscure B grade movie. This movie was a Janta Chitra Production. It was produced by Devi Sharma and directed by Gajanan Jagirdar. Starcast of the movie included names like Majnu, Rajan Haksar, Tuntun, Prashanta, K.N.Singh, Om Prakash, Anita Guha, Chandrashekhar, KanchanMala, Meena Shorey, JeetBala, Sunder etc.
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