Posts Tagged ‘Mukesh’
“Hum Log”(1951) was a Ranjit Film Company Production. It was directed by Zia Sarhadi. The movie had Balraj Sahni, Nutan, Cuckoo, Master Ratan,Shyama, Anwar Hussein, Sajjan, Kanhaiyalal, Manmohan Krishna, Durrani, Rashid Khan, Durga Khote etc in it.
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Mera prem Himalay se oonchaa
Posted on: March 31, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film songs of Mukesh do not even number 800, with the current research that is available, but it is still a great treasure. The voice behind these songs, this person, carries a link back into the soul itself – such is the power and the fascination in this voice. It would be a very tough job, to find a Mukesh song that one could say “naah, not worth the listen”. What maybe would seem lacking in numbers is more than made up by simply the quality of sound and the eminence of rendering.
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Chanda ke desh mein rehti ek raani
Posted on: March 11, 2012
“Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Subbiraj,Sulochana, Naaz, Balraj, Daisy Irani, Kavita, Nana Palsikar, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Ye kya kiyaa re duniyaa waale
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Beti” (1969) is a movie which had Sanjay Khan, Nanda, Kamini Kaushal, Kishor Sahu, Rajendra Nath in it. I have not seen this movie but it is my theory that a movie whose title included words like “Beti”, “Bhabhi”, “Bahu” etc tend to be a tales of women who are shown sacrifices just for the sake of it. I do not know whether I am correct in my assesment of this movie that I have made just by looking at the title and the starcast. I request our knowledgeable readers to help confirm/ refute my guess about this movie.
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It is a commonly held view that obscure movies and songs are those that were created long long ago. But that is not always the case. There could be movies and songs that may have ended up as obscure even if they may have been created as late as in 1980 !
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Ni baliye rut hai bahaar ki
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kanhaiyya”(1959) was a movie which was an S P Pictures productions. Sant Singh and Pachhi were the producers and the movie was directed by Om Prakash. Starcast of th movie had names like Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Om prakash, Lalita Pawaar, Raj Mehra, Vishwa Mehra, Madan Puri, Leela Mishra, Pachhi, Jagdish Sethi, Uma Dutt, Nazir Hussain, Sushil, Sarita, Mauji, Uma Khosla, Ratna, Mona Saxena etc.
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Bhare hain aankh mein aansoo
Posted on: February 29, 2012
“Saara Jahaan Hamaara”(1961) is an obscure B grade movie by now. This movie was produced by India Films corporation. Prakash Chhabra was the director and the starcast had Premnath, Shyama, Hiralal,Rajeshwari, Azraa, Ajay kumar, Jankidass, Manju etc in it.
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The list of songs that belong to ” How come this song was not discussed earlier ! ” category is quite long. Here is another song of this category.
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In 1965, United Producers and Filmfare conducted an All India Talent Contest. Ten thousand people took part in this contest. The winner of this contest ,called “All India United Producers Talent contest” was to be made the hero of two Hindi movies.
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