Posts Tagged ‘Qamar Jalalabadi’
Deewaanon se ye mat poochho
Posted on: November 5, 2011
We in this blog discuss old songs that are well known as well not so well known and even seemingly non existent obscure songs. Despite discussing so many songs, there are still some extremely well known songs that are not yet covered. In case of many such songs, I thought that I had already discussed them, but I was wrong.
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Maahi o dupatta mera de de
Posted on: November 3, 2011
“Meena Baazaar” (1950) is a Pancholi Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Shyam, Nargis, Kuldip Kaur, Gope, Sapru, Kanhaiyalal, Bhudo Advani, Chandabai, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Duniya ye kehti hai
Posted on: October 30, 2011
“Miss Bombay” (1957) was not about a female beauty queen, but about a bus called “Miss Bombay”, which is driven by Ajit in the movie. This movie was produced by N C films and it was directed by Kedar Kapoor. The movie had Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant, Bhagwan,Tiwari,Rehman,Vijaylaxmi,Bhudo Adwani,Pravin Pal etc in it. This movie may have led to some fan following among other B grade movie makers, because movies with similar titles, viz. Miss Punjab Mail, Miss Toofaan Mail etc. were produced the next year.
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“Rustam e Hind” (1965) is a B grade movie produced by K R films and directed by Kedar Kapoor. This movie had top B grade stars of the day, viz Dara Singh and Mumtaz, as well as others like Helen, Laxmi chhaya, Sham kumar, K.N.Singh, Parveen Paul, Rajan Haksar, Mridula Rani, Randhir, Maruti Rao, TunTun, Mohan Choti, Bihari, Hansa, Haroon, Khurshid, Madhumati, Roopesh Kumar, Parashuram etc.
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Jo waqt pe kaam aa jaaye
Posted on: October 28, 2011
“Farishta”(1958) is a Pancholi Productions movie which was directed by Ravindra Dave. The star cast of this movie included names like Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Mubarak, Nana Palsikar, Anita Guha, Murad, Mehmood , Sheikh, Mridula etc.
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In Hindi movies, most activities are carried out according to a set piece pattern, and that included songs as well. Teasing songs, romantic songs, expression of love song, all of them seem to follow some well laid down guidelines.
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In Hindi movie, it is only the hero and the heroine who are supposed to have tender feeling and who are supposed to fall in love. Other characers are supposed to be people without feelings who have no place for romantic songs in their lives.
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In the earlier days of Hindi movie music, the songs were based on classical songs alone. With time, folk music based songs became to be composed and that led to a surge in the popularity of Hindi movie music.
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Kitni haseen ho tum
Posted on: September 22, 2011
“Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) is not a movie that I know much about. Whatever I know about this movie is thanks to the information sent to me by Prakashchandra alongwith the lyrics of this song from the movie.
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