Posts Tagged ‘Raj Kapoor’
Aaya mere dil mein tu
Posted on: August 18, 2012
“Daastaan” (1950) was a Musical Pictures Production, which was a joint venture of A R Kardar and Naushad. The movie was directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Raj Kapoor, Murad, Al Nasir, Veena, Suresh, Protima Devi, Shakila, Banerji, Lakshman, Surinder, Baby Anwari, Swartha, Krishna Kumar etc in it.
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Today (22 july) is the birthday of Mukesh. This gives us an opportunity to dedicate the day for some as yet undiscussed Mukesh songs.
Mukesh had a singing career that began in 1941 with “Nirdosh” (1941) and he had a playback career lasting 26 years till he died in 1976. During his career, he sang around 800 songs in Hindi movies. We in this blog have already discussed 452 of them. So we are already more than halfway there. If we discuss the remaining Mukesh songs at the rare of one song daily and more on special occasions like his anniversaries, then I hope that we will be able to cover all remaining Mukesh songs by this date the next year.
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Ruk ruk ruk kahaan chali deewaani
Posted on: July 20, 2012
If Akshay Kumar movies of 1990s tended to have the word “Khilaadi” in them , then Sheikh Mukhtaar’s movies of 1950s and 1960s used to have the title “Ustaad” in them.
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Haal e dil hamaaraa jaane na bewafaa
Posted on: July 7, 2012
“Shrimaan Satyawaadi” (1960) was a Roopkala Productions movie. This movie was directed by S M Abbas. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Shakila, Mehmood, Nazir Hussain, Radhakrishan, Raja Nene etc.
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I realised it recently that the songs of “Sangam” (1964), which was a musical extravaganza of its time, are under represented in the blog. So far only four songs from this movie have been discussed and several well known songs from the movie are still at large.
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Bol Radha bol sangam hoga ke nahin
Posted on: June 23, 2012
Here is a song that firmly belongs to the category of “How come this song was not discussed before ! ” This song is the well known title song of “Sangam”- namely “Bol Radha bol sangam hoga ke nahin”.
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Tum aaj mere sang hans lo
Posted on: May 20, 2012
“Aashiq” (1962) was a Reuben Dubey Production movie. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Raj kapoor, Padmini, Nanda, Abhi Bhattacharya, Mukri, Raj Mehra, Nana Palsikar, Achla Sachdev, Honey Irani, Keshto Mukherjee, Leela Chitnis, Madhumati, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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Dekha hai tumne jidhar jidhar
Posted on: May 6, 2012
“Nazraana”(1961) was a Venus Pictures Production. It was directed by C Sridhar and the movie had Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Usha Kiran, Sabita Chatterjee, Gemini Ganesan, Agha, Niranjan Sharma, Achala Sachdev, Master Shahid etc in it.
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“Teesri Kasam” (1966) was a movie which was adapted from Phanishwar Nath “Renu”‘s Hindi novel called “Maare Gaye Gulfaam”. I have neither seen the movie nor read the novel, but Santosh Ojha, a contributor to this blog has given a nice summary of this novel in his blog . Reading this summary, I realised what a moving tale this novel and this movie was. Now I can understand why Shailendra was so heartbroken on finding his dream project failing at the box office. The fact that Indian movie audience were not mature enough and sensitive enough to appreciate a movie like this was quite unfortunate indeed.
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Do boonden saawan ki
Posted on: April 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ramesh Saigal who had produced and directed socially relevant films like ‘Shikast (1952) and ‘Railway Platform (1956), ventured in to make one more such film based on the Russian novelist Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. The film was PHIR SUBAH HOGI (1958). Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha were the lead actors in this movie with Rehman, Jagdish Sethi, Leela Chitnis, Nana Pansikar and Mubarak in the supporting roles. The songs were written by Sahir Ludhianvi and composed by Khayyam. As far as I know, Sahir Ludhianvi teamed up with Khayyam for the first time in this film.
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