Posts Tagged ‘Naushad’
Udan khatole pe ud jaaun
Posted on: September 5, 2010
In Hindi movies, Kids are supposed to be a straight line extention of grown ups, so they are shown behaving like grown ups. Lead actors who are shown in love with each other in their grown up age are shown to be in love with each other even in their childhood in case their childhood is depicted in the movie.
Read more on this topic…
Mat bolo bahaar ki batiyaan re
Posted on: September 5, 2010
While looking up information about Naushad, I found out that he made his debut as a music director in 1940 in a movie called “Prem Nagar”. In this movie he composed as many as 13 songs. Those are the days when actors themselves used to sing their own songs.
Read more on this topic…
Ab kaun hai meraa
Posted on: September 4, 2010
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) was the biggest hit of the year 1946 and this movie in fact must be regarded as a landmark movie in the Hindi movie industry. The movie had Noorjehaan, Surendra and Suraiyya in lead roles. These three in fact sang their own songs. There was no dearth of songs in this movie. There were as many as 12 songs in it and they all became very popular.
Read more on this topic…
Husn e jaanaa idhar aa
Posted on: August 31, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Saathi” (1968) but even I was not aware of that the song under discussion was from this movie.
Read more on this topic…
Huye ham jinke liye barbaad
Posted on: August 26, 2010
I never tire of mentioning that this blog had over 2800 songs in it, but even I had not kept track of the number of movies whose songs have been posted in this blog. I just realised that there are songs from nearly 1000 movies in this blog ! Taking a look at the lists (movie wise, music director wise, or yearwise) can give some useful information.
Read more on this topic…
The farmaish of this song from “Aadmi” (1968) was given by Lalitha today.This is a kind of song where getting the lyrics right is a straightforward task without much challenge and so here is the song, in double quick time.
Read more on this topic…
I have mentioned in the past that “Ratan” (1944), officially known as “Rattan” revolutioned the creation of music composition in Hindi movies. From classical music base, music began to draw inspiration from folk music and that enabled the “aam aadmi” to feel attached and attracted to the music.
Read more on this topic…
Milke bichhad gayin ankhiyaan
Posted on: August 21, 2010
“Ratan”(1944), or ‘Rattan” as it is mentioned in old posters, was a turning point in Hindi movie music. Before this movie, the movie music was based on classical music. But the music of this movie broke new grounds and introduced music based on folk music. And the folks (ordinary public) lapped up this music. And soon, every other music director jumped onto the band wagon and Hindi movie music began to enjoy much higher level of popularity among public.
Read more on this topic…
I have posted several songs from “Aan” (1952) and I thought I had posted this one too, but when I was looking at the list of old farmaishes, I found that I had yet to post this song.
Read more on this topic…
This song from “Kohinoor”(1960) is an ultimate “Chhaayaageet” song which is my way of saying that this romantic song is ideal for listening to at late night. And indeed many listeners may have listened to this song in the late night “Vividh Bharati” programme of this name.
Read more on this topic…
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments