Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The saga of Hindi films will never be complete without the discussion of the “formula” that used to be, and continues to be, followed by the production banners. More often than not, once a film became a hit, and brought profits for the producers, generally there used to be a spate of new productions trying to imitate the theme, the storyline, and the main attractive ingredients of that successful film, in an effort to duplicate that success. Over a period of time, such duplications would get refined into a list of specific ingredients that should be part of a film production strategy. Besides the components of the storyline, and type of characters and the list of events that should form part of the film, a main item of consideration was the type of music and songs that a film should contain.
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Raahi chal sambhal sambhal ke
Posted on: March 22, 2012
“Detective” (1958) was an Amiya Chitra Presentation. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. Starcast of the movie included Pradeep Kumar, Mala Sinha, Krishnakant, Dhumal, Johnny Walker, K. N. Singh etc.
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Manzil to hai badi door
Posted on: March 20, 2012
“Bhai Sahab”(1954) was a Pancholi Art Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave and the star cast included C H Atma, Smriti Biswas, Purnima,Ratan Kumar, Jagdeep etc.
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Badi mushqil hai ajab mera dil hai
Posted on: March 7, 2012
“Chingaari” (1955) is an obscure movie by now. This movie was a co operative pictures production. It was directed by S Srivastava. Starcast of the movie included Shekhar, Nalini Jaywant, Leela Misra, Sunalini Devi, Pran etc.
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Man bhaawan ke ghar jaaye gori
Posted on: March 6, 2012
I have heard this song many a times and liked this song too, but all this while I was totally unaware about the details of this song. Now that I have heard this song again, I recall that this song was one of the songs that Sunil Gavaskar had played during the Vishesh Jaimala programme on Vividh Bharati in 1975.
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Raat phaagun ki chaand poonam ka
Posted on: March 6, 2012
“Bhai Sahab” (1954) is a movie I know well from my days of listening to “Puraani Filmon ke geet” on Radio Ceylon. The songs of this movie sounded like they were sung by K L Saigal but in reality they were sung by C H Atma, a K L Saigal devotee. The most well known song from this movie, viz Nazar ne keh diya afsaana mere pyaar ka has already been discussed in the blog.
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Itne bade jahaan mein
Posted on: March 5, 2012
“Kathputli” (1957) was a Srirangam Productions movie. It was directed by Amiya Chakravarty and Nitin Bose. The starcast of the movie had names like Vyjyantimala,Kamla Laxman, Balraj Sahni, Jawahar Kaul, Agha, Sheela Kashmiri, Poonam etc in it.
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Chandrma madbhara
Posted on: March 2, 2012
Most music lovers listen to standard commonly heard music. Then some music lovers decide to explore and search for previously unheard of music.
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Ni baliye rut hai bahaar ki
Posted on: March 1, 2012
“Kanhaiyya”(1959) was a movie which was an S P Pictures productions. Sant Singh and Pachhi were the producers and the movie was directed by Om Prakash. Starcast of th movie had names like Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Om prakash, Lalita Pawaar, Raj Mehra, Vishwa Mehra, Madan Puri, Leela Mishra, Pachhi, Jagdish Sethi, Uma Dutt, Nazir Hussain, Sushil, Sarita, Mauji, Uma Khosla, Ratna, Mona Saxena etc.
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Main rangeela pyaar ka raahi
Posted on: February 25, 2012
Here is yet another song of the “how come this song was not posted earlier ” genre. For my excuse, look at my standard excuse that I have given in other songs of this genre 🙂 .
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