Posts Tagged ‘Raja Mehdi Ali Khan’
I have mentioned that “Magroor” (1950) is one of the more lovable Hindi movies of all time in my opinion.
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All those who are into Hindi movies are told that the romantic song in Hindi movie consists of the hero and heroine singing this song running around trees. Now, I have been a veteran movie watcher (and these days a veteran songs watcher), and I have watched thousands of romantic songs but I failed to locate even one song where the lead duo are shown running around trees.
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I became aware of this movie called “Magroor” (1950) thanks to its review by Memsaab. This is a delightful movie, and it is worth watching even for someone like me who cannot normally sit through the length of an entire Hindi movie.
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“Aankhen” (1950) is the debut movie of Madan Mohan as a music director. I have written about three songs from this movie in the past. In the cases of these three songs, nly the audio was available.
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Shokh nazar ki bijliyaan
Posted on: September 8, 2010
I was under the impression that “Wo Kaun Thi” (1964) was all about Lata-Madan Mohan compositions. There were as many as three of them. But there were other singers in this movie as well.
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From time immemorial, mankind has felt the need to be successful. This has led to the emergence of people who tell aam janta how to succeed. And by the 20th century, there were a host of experts telling us how to succeed. In olden days, they wrote books, which were bought by aam janta and the authors, who till then were unsuccessful themselves, went on to become successful and they would tell their readers to draw inspiration from their example and act likewise to succeed.
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“Anpadh” (1962) is known as a movie that contained a couple of immortal ghazals that earned Madan Mohan the sobriquet of “Ghazal King” from Lata and earned high praise from Naushad who opined that these two ghazals was equal to all the musical creations of Naushad. Coming from Lata and Naushad, that was high praise indeed.
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All patriotic songs have the ability to move the listeners. Out of these songs, the most moving songs are those that talk of the martyr, the shaheed. There has been in fact two movies called “Shaheed”, viz “Shaheed” (1948) and “Shaheed” (1965).
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Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re
Posted on: August 2, 2010
Here is another song that I first became aware of only a few hours ago.
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I was under the impression that I had posted all the songs from “Mera Saayaa” (1966), but in reality I have so far posted only four songs from this movie. There are more memorable songs in this movie that are yet to be posted.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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