Posts Tagged ‘S N Tripathi’
Unpar kaun kare jee vishwaas
Posted on: April 12, 2011
The usual love stories constituted the bulk of storyline in mainstream Hindi movies of the past. The fact that history and mythology provided such rich sources of stories that could be used was not given much thought by mainstream movie makers. It was left to movie makers of smaller resources (makers of B grade movies) to make movies on such topics that were regarded as risky and unviable by mainstream movie makers.
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“Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp” (1952) was a Wadia Movietone movie based on the well known Arabian Night tale. In this movie, Mahipal and Meena Kumari play the lead roles.
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“Alladin And The Wonderful Lamp” (1952) was a fantasy movie based on the well known Arabian nights tale. This Wadia movietone movie had Mahipal and Meena Kumari in lead roles.
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Aayi bahaar muskuraayi bahaar
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is an A grade song from a B grade movie called “Roop Kumari” (1956). This movie had Shakila and Mahipal in lead roles. Considering that the song is sung by Geeta Dutt, it can be assumed that the song was picturised on Shakila.
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From the name, this movie “Shree Ganesh Mahima” (1950) appears a B grade small budget movie and indeed that is what it was. The musical team of this movie consisted of S N Tripathi as music director and Anjum Jaipuri as the lyricist.
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Chaandi kaa gol gol chandaa
Posted on: May 22, 2010
Bollywood movies of the past may have been differentiated on the basis of their budget into A grade, B grade, C grade etc, but there was no such differentiation in the quality of music in all these movies. Even C grade movies used to have outstanding music. But the music of C grade movies suffered mostly because of lack of exposure since records of these songs were hardly made. And record players were in any case unaffordable for most music lovers.
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Nain ka chain churaakar le gayi
Posted on: March 29, 2010
I have not posted a Mukesh song for quite some time. So here is a Mukesh song.
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Ud jaa bhanwar maaya kamal kaa
Posted on: November 2, 2009
By 1950s, Bollywood movie songs had came of age. Some of the most memorable songs of all time were created in this decade.
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Raat suhaani jhoome jawaani
Posted on: October 24, 2009
I have repeatedly stressed the fact that there was nothing B grade about the music of these so called B and C grade movies. But as far as the public were concerned, the music of these movies would fail to catch up, mainly because of lack of exposure. Since most people would not watch these movies, they would not be aware of these songs, and the records of these songs would not be made and sold as a result of non popularity of these songs. So it was a catch 22 situation for the music of B grade movies.
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