Posts Tagged ‘Naseem’
Tera phoolon jaisa rang
Posted on: December 8, 2012
“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) was a movie that I became aware of when its title song began to play on radio. I found the title song quite antiquated in its tune. Those were the days when anything not sung by Kishore Kumar or not composed by R D Burman was regarded as old by me. I found that the music of this movie was composed by someone called Khayyam. and that is how I became familiar with this name.
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Aane waale jab aayenge
Posted on: December 6, 2011
Discussing Sajjad Hussain compositions in this blog is always special, and more so because the remaining Sajjad Hussain songs that are being discussed now are extremely rare to find.
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Mere ghar aayi ek nanhi pari
Posted on: March 29, 2011
This article is written by Lalitha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor to this blog.
Loris, or lullabies, have always had a special place in Indian life, and many of these are sung by mothers and grandmothers as they rock the baby to sleep in the old fashioned cradle formed by hanging a long piece of cloth from a hook in the ceiling or in a regular cradle. Some loris have also been sung by men, generally widowers, and these tend to be melancholy ones, but there are some exceptions. In Carnatic music, the raga Neelambari is the one used to induce sleep and most lullabies in the South are sung in this raga.
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“Shabistaan” (1951) was an Arabian Nights kind of fantasy movie. Such kind of movie were then regarded as B grade movie. “Stunt” movie was another name for such movies because these movies had lots of fights in them. In fact, Shyam, the hero of this movie, died on the stage of this movie while performing a stunt. He was riding a horse when he fell from the horse and died. To this date, this is regarded as one of the major disasters on the sets of Hindi movies.
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