Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
In 1950s, we had a genre of songs where a lady, alone or accompanied by other co workers carrying basket on her head would be going on her way to her work while singing a song. The hero and heroine would be at hand to listen to the song. The song in a way would express the feelings that the leading duo have for each other but are too shy to express themselves. alternatively the song may set the tone for the movie. Such a song is there in “Aar Paar” (Kabhi aar kabhi paar ),”Do Aankhen Barah Haath” (Sainya jhoothon ka bada sartaaj nikla), CID (Boojh mera kyaa naam re ) etc. I am trying to think of a name that describes such songs, but I am unable to find an appropriate descriptive name for such a genre of songs. I request our readers to help out in suggesting a name for such songs.
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Kabhi kabhi mere dil
Posted on: April 13, 2012
“Miss Cocacola” (1955) is the only movie where Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali worked together. Shammi Kapoor never got to watch the movie and when he felt like watching it in his later years for the sake of nostalgia, the prints of this movie were all gone.
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Jeena hai kyaa koi kyaa jaane
Posted on: April 12, 2012
“Miss Cocacola” (1955) was a Danny Production movie. It was directed by Kedar Kapoor. Starcast of the movie included names like Shammi Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Lalita Pawar, Om Prakash, Johnny Walker, Helen,Kuldip Kaur, Kamal Kapoor, Mumtaz Begum. This movie was Shammi Kapoor’s movie from his pre stardom days and a movie where he acted opposite Geeta Bali, his would be wife. Unfortunately the prints of this movie are not available. Not just public, even Shammi Kapoor had not seen this movie and it was Shammi Kapoor’s fond wish to be able to see this movie.
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“Ek Hi Raasta”(1956) was produced and directed by B R Chopra. As was his wont, this movie too was on a socially progressive theme of widow remarriage which was quite bold for the time and as a result it was a commercially risky proposition for the movie. But B R Chopra pulled it off and the movie became a commercial success and it was critically acclaimed too.
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“Ghar Sansaar”(1958) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by V M Vyas. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nargis, Rajendra Kumar, Kumkum, Johnny Walker, Shammi, Kumari Naaz, Devika, Ansari etc in it.
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Bol pardesia ye toone kyaa kiyaa
Posted on: April 6, 2012
“Mangu” (1954) was a movie where Md Shafi was the original music director but O P Nayyar managed to get in at the expense of Md Shafi and composed four songs.
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Man morey gaa jhoom ke
Posted on: April 5, 2012
“Mangu” was a Sheikh Mukhtar Production movie. It was directed by M A Ansari. Starcast of the movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Nigar Sultana, Aroon, Mukri, Ansari, Sheila Ramani etc.
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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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