Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
hamaare baad ab mehefil mein afsaane bayaan honge
bahaaren humko dhoondegi na jaane hum kahaan honge
These two lines of a song from film BAAGHI (1953) sum up the realities of our life. This song penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri and coming out of the magical combination of Lata-Madan Mohan was long overdue to be discussed in this blog. One song from this film has been discussed more than a year back.
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Jaata hai to jaa o jaanewaale
Posted on: January 31, 2012
“King Kong” (1962) was a Santosh Productions movie. It was produced by Devi Sharma and directed by Babubhai Mistry. This B grade movie had Dara Singh and Kumkum in lead roles, with Parveen Choudhary, Leela Misra, Kamal Mehra, Uma Dutt, King Kong, Chandrashekhar etc also figuring in the movie.
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A grade music in B grade movies- this has by now become a common refrain while discussing many of the songs in this blog. B grade movies had their own big name musi directors, and one of the biggest such names was undoubtedly Chitragupta.
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Ae gham e yaar bataa
Posted on: January 9, 2012
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Today (9th of January) is the birthday of Mahendra Kapoor. On this occasion, our readers have sent the lyrics of some special songs sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Some of them are well known songs and on the other hand there are some songs that are quite unheard of and rare songs.
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“Yaadon Ki Baaraat” (1973) was a movie which had a lost and found story where three brothers get orphaned (their parents murdered by the villain) and then they get separated. The brothers later grow up, take revenge on the villain and get reunited.
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See le zubaan
Posted on: December 28, 2011
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) was a Navketan production movie. It was directed by Vijay Anand. The star cast had names like Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Lalita Pawar, Rashid Khan, Jeevan, Shashikala, Madan Puri, M. A. Latif, Helen, Krishan Dhawan, Jagdish Raaj, Nazir Kashmiri, Bhagan Sinha, Tuntun, Prem Prakash etc.
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“Akeli Mat Jaiyyo” (1963) was no great shakes as a movie. even people as patient as Raja (a regular of this blog) found this movie insufferable when he watched this movie and felt obliged to inform me of this fact when we met last year.
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Most movie songs that people get to hear are included in the movies, and so audios as well as videos of most songs are available. But there are cases when some songs are excluded for one reason or the other.
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“Aar Paar” (1954) was a Guru Dutt Films production and it was directed by Guru Dutt as well. The star cast included Guru Dutt, Shyama, Shakila, Bir Sakhuja, Johny Walker, Noor, Jagdish Sethi, Rashid Khan, Jagdeep etc. in it.
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