Posts Tagged ‘Manna Dey’
Re moorakh tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: January 29, 2011
I am not much aware of this movie called “Amaanat”(1955) which is one of four movies of this name, others being “Amaanat” (1943), “Amaanat” (1977) and “Amaanat” (1994).
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Jaago aur jagaao
Posted on: January 17, 2011
Qawwalis are normally the longest songs in Hindi movies. But sometimes stage songs also give qawwalis a run for their money as far as their duration is concerned.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Nishan” (1965) is a B grade film, produced under the banner of Wadia Brothers Productions, Bombay, and directed by Aspi Irani. The star line up include Sheikh Mukhtaar,Sanjeev Kumar, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Helen, Mukri, Sulochana, Heeralal, Shammi, Ratnamala, Uma Dutt, Mitthoo Miyan etc. The film boasts of some very hummable and memorable songs. Lyrics for the songs are created by Jawed Anwar and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. It is interesting to note that Jawed Anwar is the pen name of Manohar Lal Khanna, the real life father of Usha Khanna.
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Everyone is aware that 1957 saw the movie “Mother India” in which Nargis played the central character. Few people know that the same year also saw the release of another movie called “Miss India”. And guess who played the central character in this movie ? It was none other than Nargis herself !
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Nirbal se ladaayi balwaan ki
Posted on: December 3, 2010
The movie “Toofaan Aur Diyaa” (1956) opens with this song as the credits roll on the screen. This song, in addition to being the movie opening song and the theme song, has to be one of the most inspirational songs of all time.
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Ye din din hain khushi ke
Posted on: November 30, 2010
“Jab se Tumhe Dekha Hai” (1963) is a lesser known movie from the past. It had Pradeep Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles. As was the case with most movies of those days, the songs of this movie too are nice to listen to.
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Preetam daras dikhaao
Posted on: November 18, 2010
Most music fans run away from classical music, especially the pucca raags as sung by Ustaads. Most songs in Hindi movies are still derived from classical raags, but they are light songs which are made easy for the ordinary music lovers to follow and appreciate.
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Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. Music directors like C Ramchandra and Vinod, to mention a few, were composing quite a few rock and roll kind of songs those days.
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Mere ae dil bataa
Posted on: October 4, 2010
I just realised that I have discussed only one song from “Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje” (1955) in this blog. This movie has several amazing songs in it.
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Main idhar jaaun yaa udhar jaaun
Posted on: October 3, 2010
“Paalki” (1967) is what is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. Like most movies of this genre, this movie too boasts of some superb songs in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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