Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kumari’
Ye kyaa zindagi hai
Posted on: March 31, 2012
This article is written by Pradeep Raghunathan, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
There is one day of the year that most of us Indian’s are not very happy about, and that date is today, 31st March, when we need to make sure we have filed our tax returns and submitted it. For some reason, you find every one in India very busy during the month of March, as they are busy collecting documents and filing their taxes. Coming to think of it, even the IPL waits for this March madness to complete before it starts on the 4th of Apr :).
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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.
I am not a keen watcher of period movies but do buy VCDs/DVDs of such movies mainly for watching the fabulous songs. Recently, I watched NOOR JEHAN (1967) with a view to ascertaining whether the VCD contained the only Lata Mangeshkar song ‘ raat ki mehfil sooni sooni’ in it. In this process, I saw the entire movie. As I expected, the song was excluded from the VCD. In fact, it is said that this song was not included in the original print of the film. Despite some mindless cuts in the VCD version affecting the continuity of the screen play and the bad quality of video, I did not feel a total let down by the film. The story which I knew from the history books was interesting one from the point of view of cinematic presentation. The film was shot on lavish sets and outdoor locations in keeping with the period movie theme.
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Dhaani chunar mori haay re
Posted on: March 13, 2012
It was in 1949 that Lata sang a song about “Laal dupatta”and that song, namely Hawa me udta jaaye(Barsaat) has become a much loved timeless classic.
Ten years later, Lata sang a song about “dhaani chunariya”. This song is extremely melodious and sweet, but this time the movie as well as the song failed to make ripples and by now this song has ended up as an obscure song.
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Kehta hai dil tum ho mere liye
Posted on: February 16, 2012
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“Mem Sahib” (1956) was a lovely movie starring Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari and Shammi Kapoor. This movie was a fun movie which was great to watch. And the music was wonderful.
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“Aazaad” (1955) was a movie which was produced and directed by S MN S Naidu. He wanted the songs of the movies to be recorded within one month and approached the leading music director of Bombay, viz Naushad to compose the music of this movie (9 songs) within that target period. Naushad snubbed him, saying that it was not possible to create 9 songs in one month. Then Mr Naidu approached other leading music directors and they all refused to take up the assgnment.
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Kehti hai ye thandi hawaa
Posted on: February 2, 2012
What happens when an actress known to us for playing tragedy roles is paired up with an actor known to us for playing comedy roles ? Much to our delight, the result is a light hearted movie most of the time.
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Usey mil gayi nayi zindagi
Posted on: February 1, 2012
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Halaaku”(1956) in the past. But this movie, like most movies of the golden era of Hindi movie music have many more songs that that in them.
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Tumhe zindagi ke ujaale mubaarak
Posted on: January 12, 2012
This song is a well known song and I believed that this song was already covered in the blog but I discover that I was wrong. That way, this song belongs to the popular category of the blog, viz “What ! This song was not yet posted !” category. 🙂
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Yahaan koi nahin tera mere siwaa
Posted on: January 3, 2012
“Dil Ek Mandir” (1963) is a Chitralaya Pictures production. The movie was directed by C V Sridhar. The star cast of the movie included names like Raj kumar, Rajendra kumar, Meena Kumari, Baby Padmini, Krishna kumari, Taai Naagesh, Krishna Kumari, Achala Sachdev, Shubha Khote, Mehmood, Manmohan Krishna, Randhir, Sundar, Shantini, Ram Mohan, Keshav Rana etc.
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“Madhu” (1959) is a rare movie which was produced by Maya Art Pictures. It was directed by G Mukherji and S Bannerji. The star cast of the movie consisted of names like Karan Dewan, Meena Kumari, Jagdish Sethi, Kumkum, Sundar etc.
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