Posts Tagged ‘S Mohinder’
Tinke pe tinkaa chhutti ke din kaa
Posted on: June 2, 2011
In this blog, I typically hope to discuss 6-7 songs a day and that enables me to complete a century in 16 days. This is obviuosly subject to conditions being favourable. For instance, I need to have a free hand with no one nagging me. (You got the point I hope) 🙂 With holidays on, and my spouse and kid and pets together, it naturally becomes difficult.
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Ye hai jeewan ki rail
Posted on: May 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this post, we celebrate the 3900th song on this blog. Congratulations all. And wow, what a lovely musical journey it has been since the blog was started as a result of an online conversation between two cricket enthusiasts, Atul ji and Raja ji. After having sampled 3900 gems, the large ocean of Hindi film music still beckons for many many more songs to be discovered and re-discovered.
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Shamaa se koi kah de
Posted on: March 15, 2011
Golden era of Hindi movie music saw a plethora of musical talents that enriched Hindi movie music with their contribution. It is not that only big name artists contributed, even those artists who struggled to get opportunities and who worked in so called B grade movies also contributed their mite. some of them in fact deserved to getmany more assignments than what they finally ended up with.
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This post is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
I came across a veritable gem today, that I had once heard many many years ago; I had no info about this song, just remembered the tune and some words, that would sometimes just come up in my mind by themselves and I would hum them, always longing to hear this song again. And today, while searching for something else, I accidentally bumped into this old long lost friend of mine.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music was enriched not only by the well known music directors, but also by the lesser known names. Many of these lesser known music directors deserved much more recognition and opportunities than what they ultimately ended up with.
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The songs that I post in this blog can be roughly divided into two categories. One category is those songs that were popular in their days and are often well known among the fans of Hindi movie music.
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Sunaaun kis ko afsaanaa
Posted on: April 18, 2010
Shirin Farhaad” (1956) was a movie with Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. This movie had one memorable song in it ( Guzra hua zamaana aata nahin dobaara) that I have posted earlier in this blog. Here is another song from this movie.
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“Shrimatiji” (1952) is a movie that was different from the usual Bollywood movies. Its storyline was not Indian, rather that was drawn from external sources. And it is interesting to find stereotypical depiction of exotic people in this movie and its songs.
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Is bewafa jahaan ka
Posted on: November 27, 2009
A lot of old songs from the golden era of Bollywood music were created by lyricists and Music directors who went on to become legends. But they were not the only ones who were creating great music. There were others who were just as talented but who got limited opportunities to show their talent.
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Bijli giri kahaan se
Posted on: August 20, 2009
Among lesser known music directors, S Mohinder will always occupy a pride of place. He did not get too many opportunities to show his ability, but he made the most of whatever little opportunities he got as a music director.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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