Posts Tagged ‘Rajkumari’
Tum meri jeewan naiyya ho
Posted on: September 10, 2011
“Panghat” (1943) is a Prakash pictures movie which was produced by Vijay Bhatt and directed by K J Parmar and Mahesh Chandra. There was not much known about this movie, but thanks to Mr Arunkumar’s comments about this movie in another song of “Panghat”, we now have a good idea about the story of this movie as well as about the actors.
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“Panghat” (1943) is a Prakash Pictures production. It was directed by K J Parmar and Mahesh Chandra. It had actors like Umakant, Ratnamala, Jeewan, Sushil Kumar, Raj Kumari, Shukul, Chiman Seth etc in it. There is not much information available on this movie on internet and much of the information (including what is available on imdb) is misleading and incorrect. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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Baras gayi Raam badariya kaari
Posted on: September 1, 2011
In olden days, becoming a train driver was a fond dream of every kid. And those who actually became one were looked upon with awe by his near and dear one’s. During the British days, most drivers in Indian Railways used to be Anglo Indians and that showed their status in society.
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Jhamak jhamak liye teg tamak
Posted on: August 15, 2011
India won her freedom from British rulers in 1947 after a prolonged struggle of several decades.
It is believed that the first freedom struggle against them was launched in 1857 which did not succeed.
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This song is a long pending farmaish for this blog. This song is “Haseenon ki adaayen”, aka “haan ye bholi soorat waale” from “Chaar Din” (1949). This song has been giving me lots of troubles. For one, this song has not one , but two parts. And secondly, each of the part is supposed to have three singers each and as per credits, only one singer is repeated in the other part of the song. But I can clearly notice that these parts have more than three singers singing in them. Moreover, more than one common voice can be heard in both the versions.
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Chupke hi chupke na jaane
Posted on: June 16, 2011
The movie 1857 (1946) was obviously based on the year 1857 which saw an uprising in India that was described by Indians as a war of independence against their British rulers whereas the British rulers described it as a sepoy mutiny.
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Biyaahi mori raani hawaldaar ke sang
Posted on: June 6, 2011
I am back from the place where electricity and internet, (among many basic things in life) were at a premium. Hopefully I will be able to catch up with lost time. Just imagine being able to discuss just 18 songs in a week !
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“Paakeezah” (1971) had music by Ghulam Mohammad, but he died after recording some songs. The remaining work of music direction , viz background music was done by Naushad.
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Meri jholi mein hain mere chor
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Mehmaan”(1942) was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Madhuri, Ishwarlal, Shamim, Rama Sukul, Mubarak, Kesari, Dharpure, Bhagwandas, Indira etc in it.
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