Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Jab jab tujhko chhuaa
Posted on: February 21, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
1959 was the busiest year in the career of music director N Dutta. That year, seven films with music composed by him, were released. (Six of these films are already represented in this blog. ‘Naach Ghar’ is one film that is awaiting entry here). And the music of these films is notable and still remembered – films like ‘Black Cat’, ‘Dhool Ka Phool’, ‘Didi’, ‘Bhai Bahen’, ‘Mr. John’, and ‘Jaalsaaz’.
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) was a movie which was produced by Films Friends and directed by K A Abbas. Starcast of the movie consisted of names viz. Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Murad, Madhvi, Imtiaz, Nadira, Mukri, Helen, David Abraham, etc.
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Gham gaya to gham na kar
Posted on: February 17, 2012
- In: "Helen" song | Artist century song in blog | Asha Bhonsle solo | Asha Bhonsle songs | Century songs for the blog | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1962 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Gyaarah Hazaar Ladkiyaan” (1962) is a Film Friends Production. It was directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. Starcast of the movie included names like Bharat Bhushan, Mala Sinha, Nadira, Achala Sachdev, Mukri, David, Helen, Murad, Baby Farida, Baby Vidyarani, Baby Vijaya, Jagdish Kamal, Nazir Kashmiri, Meenal, Soni Sultana, Indira, Jugnu etc.
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Bhool jaa ae dil
Posted on: February 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
I find that there are 18 songs listed under ‘Song excluded from movie’ category in this blog. Although the sample is not representative one to come to a definite conclusion, it is interesting to note that O P Nayyar leads in this category with 5 songs followed by Madan Mohan(4 songs), S D Burman (3 songs) and Naushad(2 songs). Sajjad Hussain, Husnalal Bhagatram, Bulo C Rani and Roshan have one song each in this category.
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Ae dil ae deewaane
Posted on: February 6, 2012
The movie “Baaz” (1953), not to be confused with “Baazi”(1951) was an H G Films production. It was directed by Guru Dutt and the starcast of the movie oincluded names like Guru Dutt,Geeta Bali, Ramsingh, Kuldip Kaur, Sulochana, Yashodhara Katju, Jaswant, K. N. Singh, etc.
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“Mujrim” (1958) was an Eagle Films production. It was directed by O P Ralhan and the starcast included names like Shammi Kapoor, Raagini, Amrit Rana, Johnny Walker, Shobha Khote, Kamal Kapoor, S. Banerjee, Tuntun etc.
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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
- In: Amitabh Bachchan song by Mahendra Kapoor | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Lyrics by Khyati Bhatt | Lyrics contributed by readers | Mahendra Kapoor solo | Mahendra Kapoor songs | Melancholic song | Pathos | Rare song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1972 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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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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