Posts Tagged ‘Raja Mehdi Ali Khan’
Kayi din se dil hai bekal
Posted on: June 4, 2012
4 june is the birth anniversary of not one but two actresses of the golden era of Hindi movies. One is Bina Rai and another is Nutan. And what a coincidence that both of them were born on the same day in the same year. Both of them were born on 4 june 1936.
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Kyun jee aakhir kaun ho tum
Posted on: April 27, 2012
“Reshmi Roomaal” (1961) was a Zar productions movie. It was directed by Harsukh Bhatt. The movie had Manoj Kumar, Shakila, Helen, Shivraj, Maruti, Shammi, Kamal Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterji, Jankidas, K. N. Singh etc in it.
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Here is yet another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier !”. And all along, I was under the impression that this song was discussed long back. I was wrong in my assumption, of course.
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Kenya Uganda Tangenika
Posted on: March 21, 2012
“Hongkong”(1962) was produced and directed by Paachi. Starcast of the movie included names like Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen, Lily, Leo, Bhalla, Baburao, Kitty, King Kong, Kundan, Om Prakash, K. N. Singh etc.
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“Hongkong”(1962), I am discovering, is full of some amazingly different kind of songs. These are all light hearted songs picturised on foreign locations.
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Hongkong China Mina Singapore
Posted on: March 13, 2012
“Hongkong” (1962) was produced and directed by A S Pachchi. The satrcast included Ashok Kumar, B Saroja Devi, Helen etc. This movie was one of the first movies that treated Indian movie goers to the sights of foreign locations, which was then a novelty in Hindi movies.
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Milti hai agar nazron se nazar
Posted on: March 12, 2012
“Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie was a Deep and Sandeep Production. It was directed by Pradeep Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Pradeep Kumar, Vyjyanti Mala, Om Prakash, Jagdeep, Rehman, Shashikala, B. Nandi, Nazir Hussain, Tuntun etc.
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Many of the songs that we discuss in this blog are those that we have heard in the past and we want to relive them and enjoy them again. There there is another kind of music, one that we may never have heard before for the simple reason that these songs did not become popular enough to get played on radio. With passage of time, these songs got buried under the sand of time, apparently for ever.
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“Guzaara” (1954) is quite an obscure movie by any standards. Few people have heard of this movie. That is true for its songs as well. I became aware of this movie mainly because of the farmaish of a song from this movie.
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Ghir ghir aayee kaari badariya
Posted on: February 12, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
SHAGOOFAA (1953) was produced by P N Films and Premnath and Bina Rai were lead actors in it. One song has already been discussed. Despite having some melodious songs, the film failed miserably and with that its songs were forgotten.
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