Posts Tagged ‘Prem Dhawan’
“Raahi” (1953) was a movie that was based on Mulkraj Anand’s novel “Ek Kali Aur Do Pattiyaan”(Two leaves and a bud). Dev Anand and Nalini Jaiwant were the main lead in this movie.
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Aayi madhu ritu basant bahaar ree
Posted on: May 6, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A wonderful gem of a duet from Hamdard (1953). This is such a wonderful classical jugalbandi, such a pleasure to listen with your eyes closed. It is almost a divine composition, a signature composition by Anil Da, with more than one raga blended seamlessly into a single flow. A virtuous melody, and a pleasure to listen to.
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If one creates one or two masterpiece songs in a movie that I suppose the creators of such songs in that movie could be justified in taking it easy while creating the remaining songs. But that is not how they worked in the (G)olden days. The created one gem after another in the same movie, as if this was the last movie of their careers. And they continued it for their other movies as well for their entire careers that lasted a few decades. and then there were many others who worked in the same way. No wonder we are left with a huge body of quality music that we can keep exploring for decades, without being able to exhaust it.
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Balmaa jaa jaa jaa
Posted on: May 3, 2011
The more number of songs I discover, the more I realise how less I know about the great musical gems. And that is the case when I have already discussed over 3800 songs !
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Ye kaun aayaa re
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Ziddi” (1948) is the first movie of Kishore Kumar as a solo playback singer. He had earlier sang as part of chorus in “Aath Din” (1946).
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Here is another very wonderful duet dance, also a mujra, from the movie Guest House (1959).
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Prem Dhawan is better known as a lyricist who has had a very long stint of more than 5 decades in the Hindi film industry.
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“Saawan” (1959) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Bharat Bhushan and Ameeta in lead roles.
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