Posts Tagged ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’
Aaj hai karwa chauthh sakhi ree
Posted on: October 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
There is one big loss that the society faces of the demise of the radio broadcasts, and the rise of television and other devices. In the decades of 60s and 70s, and maybe even 80s, when radio was the prime mover of entertainment, one could bank upon hearing it somehow, someplace, every place through the day. In the morning radios would be the wake up call at homes, with news, religious music, and film music playing till one left for school or work. Afternoons and evenings again, radio used to play news and music and one could hear the sounds emanating from many households. And yes, radio would play all day at small tea shops, paan shops, and general merchants, and if there was a cricket commentary being broadcast, it was not out of place to see large crowds at tea shops and paan shops.
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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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“Aankhen” (1968) is a “Saagar Arts International” movie which was directed by Ramanand Saagar. This movie had Dharmendra, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Madan Puri,Amarnath, Zeb Rehman, Kumkum, Sujit Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Jeevan, Sajjan, Hiralal, Daisy Irani, Parduram, Dhumal, A. A. Khan, Master Rattan, Lalita Pawar etc.
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Here is yet another of those songs that “I thought were already there in the blog but I was wrong” category. 🙂
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“Ghazal” (1964) was a Natraj Productions movie and it was directed by Ved Mohan. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari,Pratima Devi,Nazima, Prithviraj, Rajendranath, Raj Mehra, Mohsin Abdulla, Rehman, Lotan etc in it.
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When I was growing up a a pre teen and later teenage kid in 1970s, I, alongwith the rest of India was a big fan of Kishore Kumar. Rafi, the erstwhile dominant male playback singer of he previous two decades found himself virtually jobless for nearly one year, before he began to get singing assignments again.
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The original “Devdas” was produced in 1935. The next Devdas came up exactly twenty years later, in 1955.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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