Posts Tagged ‘Roshan’
Dekho jee baalam jaalam
Posted on: November 27, 2011
“Chhora Chhori” (1955) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a “Show Peoples” production. It was produced and directed by Kidar Sharma. Cast of this movie includes names like Nand Kishore, Pratima Devi, Geeta Bali, Pesi Patel, Madhvi, Rashid Khan, Agha, Tony Walker etc.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
About two weeks ago, I had posted the qawwaali ‘Waaqif Hoon Khoob Ishq Ke. . .’ from the film Bahu Begum (1967). As promised, here is the second qawwaali from the same film, that is another wonderful specimen of Roshan Saab’s compositions.
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Jaane wo kaun hain
Posted on: October 20, 2011
“Bheegi Raat”(1965) is a Maya movies production, which was directed by Kalidas. the movie had Meena Kumari, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Rajendranath, Ulhas, Raj Mehra, Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, I. S. Johar, Hari Shivdasani etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Continuing the search for the qawwaali form of music in Hindi films, I come across two wonderful qawwaalis from the film Bahu Begum (1967). I present the first one in this write up.
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“Devar” (1966) was a De Luxe fims production and it was directed by Mohan Segal. This cast of this movie included names like Dharmendra,SKishore Kumar, Sabita Chatterji,Sharmila Tagore,Deven Verma, Shashikala,Dhumal, Sulochana, Raj Mehra, Sapru, Tarun Bose, Durga Khote etc.
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I have discussed four songs from “Devar” (1966) in the past, and all these songs are extremely well known songs.
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“Chitralekha” (1964) has some superb songs in it. As many as five songs from this movie, including most well known songs, have already been discussed.
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