Posts Tagged ‘S Mohinder’
Just now I came across a fantastic duet song from the era gone by. What a delightful song ! A song like this can magically transport the listeners back in time to those days, even if those days happened to be days before many of us were even born.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mehlon Ke Khwaab (1960) is a romantic comedy cum chor-police story produced by Madhubala herself. The film is directed by Haider and the star cast is notable and includes Pradeep Kumar, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar, Chanchal, Pran, KN Singh, Cuckoo, Om Prakash, Sulochana Chatterjee, Leela Chitnis, Ram Avtaar, Anoop Sharma, Khataanaa, Balam, Rashid Khan, Parvin Paul, Haroon, Daraaz, Ravi Kant, Uma Dutt, Satish Batra, Ram Lal, Sham Lal etc. Just to add a bit of trivia for those who may not know, Chanchal is the real life sister of Madhubala. The music composition is by S Mohinder. The film boasts of seven very melodious tunes, with lyrics penned by three poets viz., Raja Mehndi Ali Khan, Raahil Gorakhpuri and Anand Bakshi.
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Jiske sir upar tu swaami
Posted on: November 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Guru Nanak Dev ji de prakash utsav diyan saareyan nu lakh-lakh wadhaiyan hon ji!!!
A million greetings and best wishes on the occasion of the anniversary of the advent of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji.
Today is the most significant celebration in the Sikh tradition, the day of arrival of Shri Guru Nanak Dev ji on this earth, in the year 1469. The actual calendar dates vary, because the manner in which the common use calendars have been transformed over the centuries. However, the celebration now occurs on the full moon day of the month of Kartik, which is today. Honored as the first Guru in the lineage of ten Gurus of Sikhism, he was born in the village of Talwandi, now known as Nankana Sahib, is near Lahore in present-day Pakistan.
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Ek do teen dil gayi chheen
Posted on: October 24, 2011
Today India follows the decimal system as far as currency is concerned where 100 paise = 1 rupee. But that was not always the case. The decimal systen was adopted by India in 1957. Before that one rupee was equal to 64 paise, and one anna equalled 4 paise. Thus half a rupee was 8 anna and so on. To differentiate between the paisa of the decimal system from the paisa of earlier days, the decimal system paisa was called “Naya Paisa” (new paisa). After 1964, the prefix naya was dropped, but in day to day life, usage of the term “naya paisa” continued well into 1970s. In fact, the coins itself had the word “naya paisa” or “naye paise” written on them.
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Ye dil mera le lo
Posted on: October 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as five songs from “Picnic” (1966) in the past. All these songs are wonderful to listen to.
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Jab mera aanchal dhallega
Posted on: September 27, 2011
“Picnic” (1966) is a movie which is produced by Filmistan. It is directed by Shahid Lateef. If imdb is to be believed then the major stars of this movie are David Abraham, Anand Bakshi and P Kailash.
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Naazuk hoon albeli hoon
Posted on: August 2, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today I came across another of those must-post-right-away number. I met this song again today on YouTube after ages. I remember having heard it decades ago on the radio, but then it simply seemed to have disappeared. As usual, looking for something else today, I bumped into this gem of a melody.
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Gham na kar khushi ka daur aayegaa
Posted on: June 21, 2011
If you want to discover unheard of musical gems from Hindi movies, then the best bet would be to look for B grade movies. The catch is, finding such B grade movies can be a tall order as such movies as well as their music tends to be highly elusive.
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Yahaan raat kisi ki rotey katey
Posted on: June 15, 2011
The experiences of listening to songs sung by different singers are different. When one listens to a song sung by Mukesh, one expects a song that one would begin to hum as soon as one listens to it. One also expects the fabled Midas touch of Mukesh in full flow which ensured that most songs sung by Mukesh became popular.
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