Posts Tagged ‘Nakshab’
Ghabra ke jo ham sar ko
Posted on: March 20, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Rajkumari Dubey (1924 – 20/03/2000), popularly known as Rajkumari, was one of the earliest playback singers who dominated playback singing in the 40s. During my younger days, I used to identify her with a popular song ‘sun bairi balam sach bol re’ from the film BAAWRE NAIN (1952). It was her interview on Doordarshan in the 80s and some other video clips of her performances that made me to search for more of her songs. I found that she was not only an accomplished singer but also a ‘zinda dil’ (lively) person who zest for life was not dampened by her adverse financial condition in her later life.
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Teer chala teer chala
Posted on: March 17, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There is a wonderful and very melodious song by Mukesh (already posted Palbhar ki hi pehchaan mein ). The film is Anuraag from 1953. The mukhda of this song is
“Pal Bhar Ki Hi Penchaan Mein Pardesi Sanam Se”
“Lagtaa Hai Ki Ham Jaante Hon Janam Janam Se”
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Ek teer chala dil pe lagaa
Posted on: February 15, 2012
“Mahal” (1949) is a landmark movie in several ways, including its music. We in this blog have discussed as many as four songs from this movie.
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Here is another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier”. 🙂 And like always, my excuse is the same. I thought this song was already discussed but I was wrong.
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Ae dil waalon pyaar na karna
Posted on: January 14, 2012
“Zindagi Ya Toofaan” (1958) is a movie which was a Seraphim pictures production. The movie was directed by Nakshab. THe cast included names like Pradeep Kumar, Nutan, Johnny Walker, Om Prakash, Minoo Mumtaz, Yakub etc. This movie had a story similar to Umrao Jaan and Nutan essayed the same role in this movie that was played by Rekha in “Umraao Jaan” more than two decades later.
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Nashaad, not to be confused with Naushad, was born as Shaukat Ali. He began his career as a music director in Hindi movies in 1947. In his earlier movies, he was variously known as Shaukat Ali, Shaukat Dehalvi, Shaukat Hussain, Shaukat Haidari, Shaukat Hussain Haidari etc. It was in 1953 that film director cum lyricist Nakshab Jarachavi coined the name Nashad for him. The name brought him luck. In fact this name was adopted by his family members as their surname the way the desendents of music director Roshan adopted the name Roshan (first name of Roshanlal Nagrath) as their surname.
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Koi ye baat kya samjhe
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“Khilaadi” (1950) was a Talwar Films production. The movie had an impressive star cast consisting of Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc.
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Koi kisi se dil na lagaana
Posted on: December 6, 2011
“Nishaana” (1950) was an M & T Production. It was directed by Wajahat Mirza Changezi. The starcast of the film included names like Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Cuckoo, Madhubala, Shyama, Yakub, Nawab, Kanhaiyalal, Balam, Shanti Madhok, Durga Khote etc.
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“Raftaar”(1955) is a movie that was produced by Filco and I wonder what this arconym stand for. This movie was directed by Nakshab and I guess that he could well be the producer of this movie too.
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Present day movie watchers may associate the title “Khiladi” with Akshay Kumar, but a title like this has been used in Hindi movies for a long time. For example, there was a movie called ‘Khiladi” as far back as 1950. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Suraiyya, Sundar, Indu, Kukku etc in it.
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