Posts Tagged ‘Prem Dhawan’
Baazooband khul khul jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
It is a known fact that popular thumris (or ghazals) ascribed to the original classical and ghazal singers have also been sung by a few other doyens of Hindustani classical and ghazal singers. For instance, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan sang two thumris – ‘yaad piya ki aaye’ and ‘aaye na baalam kaa karu sajani’ to express his grief over the loss of his beloved wife in 1932, which became so popular that many classical singers in the concerts would get ‘farmaish’ to sing these two thumris. Similarly, Shakeel Badayuni’s ghazal ‘ae mohabbat tere anjaam pe ronaa aaya’ which was made immortal by Begum Akhtar’s rendition in early 50s, has been sung by many renowned ghazal singers. In the filmy parlance, these become version renditions of thumris and ghazals.
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Dil to kisi ko doge
Posted on: October 27, 2012
“Ek Saal” (1957) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Johnny Walker, Minoo Mumtaz, Kuldip Kaur etc in it.
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Tu jiye hazaaron saal gori
Posted on: October 25, 2012
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“Ek Saal” (1957) was a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was produced and directed by Devendra Goel. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, Mehmood, Minoo Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, Kuldip Kaur, Madan Puri, Pratima Devi, Sheila Vaz etc in it.
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Na chaand ho na suraj ho
Posted on: October 14, 2012
“Jaadugar Daaku” (1962) was a Joy Films production. It was directed by Chandrakant Desai. The movie had Ajit, Helen, Madhumati, Jabeen Jalil, Bela Bose, Tiwari, Jairaj, Maruti, Samson, Tuntun etc in it.
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“Zabak” (1961), a quintessential B grade movie was a Basant Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Mahipal, Shyama, Manhar Desai, W. M. Khan, B. M. Vyas, Babu Raje, Achla Sachdev, Uma Dutt, Krishna Kumari, Sahira, Adeeb etc in it.
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Dhitang dhitang boley
Posted on: September 26, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
AAWAAZ (1956) was a Mehboob Production film directed by Zia Sarhadi. I do not know the story of the film but when Mehboob and Zia Sarhadi come together for a film, one can expect that with their leftist ideologies, the film would depict the class conflict between rich and poor. The film had Rajendra Kumar and Nalini Jaywant in the lead roles with Usha Kiran, Zul Vellani, Nazir Hussain, Leela Chitnis, D K Sapru, Jagdeep, Anwar Hussain, etc in the supporting roles. With a story of class conflicts and Nazir Hussain and Leela Chitnis in the film, one can visualise that the film would have a lot of melodramatic contents.
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Ye thhandi hawaa rangeen fizaa
Posted on: September 18, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I did not know that Shaminder was a playback singer until I came across a duet song ‘ye shokh adaa mast nigaah’ from the film ‘Son Of Alibaba’ (1955) sung by him and Geeta Dutt. Curious to know about him, I checked in this blog and found that one duet song chaand sitaaron mein kaun bulaaye sung by him with Lata Mangehskar from the film ‘Pilpili Saheb’ (1954) has already been discussed. Not finding any information on him, I searched various websites but being an unknown name, he was not on Wikipedia. But I found some comments on YT from two of his relatives and a write up by a person who claims to know him personally. After reading these materials, I found that Shaminder’s journey to Hindi film industry was an interesting one if not a bizarre one who aspired to become a playback singer mainly to fulfil his obsession of singing a song with his idol Lata Mangeshkar. What a ‘khwaaish’ !
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Jayshree Gadkar (21 feb 1942- 29 aug 2008) was an actress in Hindi and Marathi movies. In Hindi she has acted in lead and/or major roles in movies like ” Do Gunde”(1959), “Madaari” (1959), “Saaranga” (1960), “Jai Bhawaani” (1961), “Ye Dil Kisko doon” (1963), “Subhadra Haran” (1964), “Bhagwan Parshuram” (1971) etc. Nearly a dozen songs picturised on her in these movies have been discussed in this blog in the past. And as far as Marathi chitrapat was concerned, she was a legend of Marathi cinema where she acted in over 250 movies in four decades.
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Jaadoo bhari ye chaandni
Posted on: August 22, 2012
Recently we read about Sudhir jee’s experiences with his laptop and how his laptop gave up on him and would not listen to him no matter how much Sudhir jee tried to reason with it.
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