Posts Tagged ‘S D Burman’
This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a new contributor to this blog.
Tere Ghar Ke Samne is one of the great movies offered up by Indian Cinema. It stars Dev Anand, Nutan, Om Prakash, Hrindranath Chattopadhyaya and Rajendranath. As was mandatory, this movie had some of the lovliest songs ever, thanks to lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, set to music by SD Burman, sung to perfection by Lata, Asha and Rafi.
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Dam hai baaqi to gham nahin
Posted on: February 27, 2012
“House No 44” (1955) was a movie produced under the banner of Navketan International Films. Dev Anand was the producer and M K Burman was the director of this movie. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Kalpana Karthik, K.N.Singh, Kumkum, Bhagwan Sinha, Sheela Vaz, PrabhuDayal, Jambura, Anand Pal, Parashuram, Sarita, Shivraj, Rashid Khan, Kammo, etc in it.
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Sun le tu dil ki sadaa
Posted on: February 26, 2012
“Tere Ghar Ke Saamne” (1963) was a Navketan International presentation and it was directed by Vijay Anand. Starcast of the movie had Dev Anand, Nutan, Pratima Devi, Rashid Khan, Harin Chattopadhyaya, Om Prakash, Parveen Choudhary, Jankidas, Rajendranath etc in it.
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This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, it is music”.
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Here is another song from the popular “How come this song was not posted earlier !” category. My excuse for not posting it earlier remains the same old one. I thought the song was already discussed but I was wrong.
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Dekh idhar o jaadoogar
Posted on: February 22, 2012
“House No 44″(1955) was a Navketan International Films Production. It was produced by M K Burman and directed by Dev Anand. Star cast of the movie included names like Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, K.N.Singh, Kumkum, Bhagwan Sinha, Sheela Vaz, Prabhu Dayal, Jambura, Anand Pal, Parashuram, Sarita, Shivraj, Rashid Khan, Kammo, Kumkum etc.
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Ye tanhaayi haay re haay re
Posted on: February 21, 2012
Nutan (DOB-4 june 1936 – DOD-21 february 1991) left for heavenly abode this day 20 years ago. Twenty years ago ! How time flies !
She belonged to one of the first Hindi movie dynasties. Her mother(Shobhana Samarth) was a noted actress in Hindi movies, as was her sister (Tanuja). With Tanuja’s marriage to Shomu Mukherji, this family married into another big Hindi movie dynasty that included Joy Mukherji, Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar etc. Later on, her son, Mohnish Bahal and her neice Kajol would also act in Hindi movies , with Kajol marrying Ajay Devgan, another well known actor.
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Wo dekhen to unki inaayat
Posted on: February 15, 2012
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In my younger days, the name of the film FUNTOOSH (1956) sounded to me a bit bizarre. I had also heard people using this Hinglish lingo as adjectives in different context. I had no occasion to watch this movie but judging (or misjudging) from the name of the film, I thought that it was a comedy movie and the song ‘ye meri topi palat ke aah’ was a pointer to that. It was only later when I heard ‘dukhi man mere’ I felt that the film was of a different genre.
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Gham kyun ho jeene waalon ko
Posted on: February 12, 2012
“Shahanshah” (1953) was a G P Production movie. It was directed by Amiya Chaudhary. Star cast of the movie included names e. g. Ranjan, Kamini Kaushal, Shakila, Achala Sachdev, Agha, Mukri, Ramesh Sippy, Cuckoo, K. N. Singh, Neeru etc.
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“Laal Kunwar” (1952) , by now a forgotten movie, was an N V M Productions movie. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. Starcast of the movie included names like Nasir Khan, Suraiyya, Jairaj, Usha Kiran, Agha, Durga Khote etc.
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