Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kapoor’
Bheegi bheegi raat aayi
Posted on: May 6, 2011
“Aakaash” (1953) is a less known movie that had Agha, Balraj Sahni, Nadira, Manmohan Krishan,Shammi(not to be confused with Shammi Kapoor), Badri Prasad,Jillo etc in it.
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Earlier decades of Indian independence (1950s and 1960s) saw much enthusiasm for nation building in public life as well as in movies. And Soviet Union style socialism was considered the way to progress. Many movies were made on the theme of nation building in those days. and these movies naturally had songs to inspire people.
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Aayi aayi basanti belaa
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) was a story of Angulimaal, a bandit who turned saint, a historical/mythological character who lived during the times of Lord Buddha.This movie had Bharat Bhushan,Nimmi and Anita Guha in it.
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Anokhaa jaadoogar Bhagwaan
Posted on: February 13, 2011
The 1975 blockbuster movie “Sholay” needs no introduction, but few people are aware that a movie of the same name was also made in 1953. This movie “Shole” (1953) had Ashok Kumar ,Beena Rai ,Poornima ,Manmohan Krishna ,Jeewan ,Mirza Musharraf,Baby Naaz etc in it.
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The technology of recording Hindi movie songs in the earlier decades was not very advanced. It was not possible to use the same recording for both the movie as well as the record companies, so the same song was recorded twice- once for the movie sound track, and another time for the record company.
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It is popularly belived that the use of Hinglish words (Hindi and English words combined) began in Hindi movies only in 1980s and it met with the disapproval of purists. But in reality, such Hinglish songs have been there from 1940s itself. Who can forget the evergreen song Aana meri jaan meri jaan sunday ke sunday from “Shehnaayi” (1947).
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There are some music directors who have composed throusands of songs and discussing most of their songs will take ages. But there are some music directors who have composed much less number of songs and it should be possible for me to post most of their compositions if I put my mind to it.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music began in late 1940s and lasted till late 1970s. There are very few music directors who were around when the golden era began and who lasted almost the entire period of this golden era. The one music director who was around for almost the entire duration and whose was S D Burman.
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Ek dil ka lagaana baaki thaa
Posted on: October 5, 2009
Many people may have noticed that the picturised versions of many songs are often different from their audio versions. One reason could be that the picturised version is often curtailed while editing the movie. But the main reason for the difference between picturised version and audio version is more technical. In olden days, it was technically not possible to record a song once and use it for audio as well as picturised versions. So those days the same song used to be recorded twice- once for the picturisation and once for the audio recording. So one could find some slight, and sometimes, more than slight differences in the two versions of the same song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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