Posts Tagged ‘Naseem Bano’
Kaise baje dil ke sitaar
Posted on: February 18, 2012
“Chaandni Raat” (1949) is a Taj Mahal Pictures presentation. It was directed by M Ehsan. Starcast of the movie included names like Shyam, Naseem, Cuckoo, Jilloo Maa, Ulhas, Parvin, David Abraham etc.
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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.
hamaare baad ab mehefil mein afsaane bayaan honge
bahaaren humko dhoondegi na jaane hum kahaan honge
These two lines of a song from film BAAGHI (1953) sum up the realities of our life. This song penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri and coming out of the magical combination of Lata-Madan Mohan was long overdue to be discussed in this blog. One song from this film has been discussed more than a year back.
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Dil tod diyaa haay dil tod diyaa
Posted on: January 25, 2012
After doing some hectic journey for over 60 hours during the last few days, I am back to non journey mode, at least for the time being. Hopefully I will be able to make up some ground in the next few days.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) was a Mehboob Production movie. It was directed by Mehboob himself and the star cast of the movie included names like Prem Adeeb, Surendra, Naseem Bano, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad,etc.
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Though the concept of playback singing was introduced in 1930s itself, but actors continued to sing their own songs till late 1940s. It was only in 1950s that the concept of singing actors finally gave way and playback singing finally became the norm.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheeshmahal (1950) is a well known Sohrab Modi production that deals with the ups and downs of life. The movie contains a number of good songs, four of which have already been discussed on this blog.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheesh Mahal is a movie by Sohrab Modi from 1950. Sohrab Modi has presented a series of very powerful and very well made movies, which include both historical epics (Sikander, Pukar, Jhansi Ki Rani, Prithvi Vallabh, Mirza Ghalib, Nauserwan-e-Adil, Raaj Hatth etc.) and contemporary social dramas (Kundan, Meetthaa Zeher, Talaaq, Jailor etc.) Sheesh Mahal belongs to the latter category of his productions.
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Bhool gaye kyun deke sahaara
Posted on: October 21, 2009
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“Anokhi Ada” to me was a movie of 1970s starring Jeetendra and Vinod Khanna, but I came to know that there was another movie of this name in 1948 too. Why did these oldtimers choose the same name as a new movie and then had some boring music in that- this is what I used to think in 1970s.
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Adaa se jhoomte huye
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Chitragupta Srivastava, better known as Chitragupta, made his debut as a music director in 1946. He had to wait for 6 years to deliver his first hit song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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