Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Whenever I am reminded of “Jaagte Raho”(1956), I am reminded of the wonderful drunkard song from this movie which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Motilal. This song,Zindagi khwaab hai is picturised on a fully drunk Motilal swaying merrily in empty streets and going towards his home, with Raj Kapoor looking on.
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Ilaahi tu sun le hamaali duaa
Posted on: September 29, 2012
Today (29 september) is the birth anniversary of Mehmood Ali Khan, known to movie watchers simply as Mehmood. Mehmood (29 September 1932 – 23 July 2004) made his debut in Hindi movies as a child actor in 1940s and then graduated as a grown up actor in 1950s. He became a comedian who commanded his own CSP (Comic side plot) in Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s.
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Naghma e dil suna suna tu
Posted on: September 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This blog has crossed the figure of 6700 songs which have been discussed during the last 4 years 2 months. This prompted me to turn to statistics page of the blog. I counted that this blog has so far covered 298 music directors (MDs), 234 lyricists and 393 singers. These are significant figures compared with the total songs covered in the blog.
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Allah khair baba khair
Posted on: September 20, 2012
Today (20 september) is the death anniversary of Anup Kumar, the brother of Ashok Kumar and Kishore Kumar.
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mini mini chi chi
Posted on: September 12, 2012
Today (12 september) is Jaikishan’s birth anniversary. One half of the famous Shankar Jaikishan duo, Jaikishan had died quite young at an age of 41 on this day in 1971. He achieved so much at such a young age . The Shankar Jaikishan duo were easily the most dominant and prolific music directors of the golden era of Hindi movie music.
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Naiyya teri majhdhaar
Posted on: September 12, 2012
“Maajhi” songs are normally associated with S D Burman and R D Burman, but here is a “maajhi” song composed by Shankar Jaikishan. This song is from “Aawaara” (1951).
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“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) was a Filmyug production movie. It was directed by Mohan Kumar. The movie had Vyjyanti Mala, Rajendra KuUmar, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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Sun mere laal yoon na ho behaal
Posted on: September 6, 2012
“Anuradha” (1960) was an L B Films Presentation. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Leela Naidu, Balraj Sahni, Abhi Bhattacharya, Ranu, Nazir Hussain, Mukri, Asit Sen, Manav Chitnis, Bhudo Advani, Rashid Khan, Hari Shivdasani, Asim Kumar etc in it.
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Suna tu man ki been par
Posted on: August 30, 2012
Hindi movies are often categorised into A grade and others, based on their budget. Big budget movies, which has big names in them are regarded as A category movies whereas small budget movies are described as B grade etc.
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“Hamraahi”(1963) was a Prasad Production movie. It was directed by T Prakash Rao. The movie had Rajendra Kumar, Jamuna, Shashikala, Dhumal, Lalita Pawar, Mehmood, Shobha Khote, Indira, N. Hussain, Rajendranath, O. P. Ralhan, Heera Sawant etc in it.
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