Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Where have all the loris (lullabies) gone from the contemporary Hindi films?’ This question haunts me as I don’t find lori songs in the present day Hindi films unless I have missed them. Alternatively I may have heard them but did not get the feel of a lori song. In a way, it is a reflection on our present generation where the lori songs as a soothing device on kids for putting them to sleep early has been almost forgotten. I find that at least in the metropolis, most parents have no time to sing a 3-minute lori to put their kids to sleep.
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Pyaar huaa iqraar huaa hai
Posted on: February 12, 2012
- In: "Umbrella" song | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lata song | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Manna Dey songs | Manna Dey-Lata duet | Rain song | Raj Kapoor songs | Raj Kapoor songs by Manna Dey | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1955 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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As iconic songs go, this song is as iconic as any. I in fact was under the impression that this song was already discussed and that too long back. But I was wrong of course.
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Ae chaand zaraa chhup jaa
Posted on: February 8, 2012
- In: "chaand" song | Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lyrics by nahm | Lyrics contributed by readers | Rafi songs | Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet | Shammi Kapoor songs | Shammi Kapoor songs by Rafi | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1967 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Laat Saahab” (1967). But five songs just too few a number to be satisfied with for a typical musical blockbuster of those days.
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Hamne jafaa na seekhi
Posted on: February 6, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Zindagi was made in 1964 with star casts as Rajendra Kumar, VMala, Raj Kumar, Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Mehmood, Jeevan, Jayant, Leela Chitnis, Dhumal, Kanhaiyalal, Hiralal & Helen. The movie was produced by SS Vasan, Gemini Pictures and was directed by Ramanand Sagar.
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There have been two movies called “Sharaarat”, which were released in 1959 and 1972. Both these movies were musical blockbusters.
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Dard e jigar thahar zaraa
Posted on: February 5, 2012
I have discussed one song from “Aurat”(1953) recently. Not much information about this movie was available on internet till then. But now, thanks to the comments provided my Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our inhouse expert on obsure movies had provided us with all the information about this movie that we may need.
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Jhummak jhummak chal mere haathi
Posted on: February 5, 2012
In Hindi movies, there are very few songs that can be described as children’s songs, which comes as quite a surprise seeing that children always form a good percentage of Indian population. Perhaps the fact that they do not hold the purse strings of the family may well be the reason why children’s songs are few and far between.
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“Aas” (1953) is a Goel Cine Corporation movie. It was directed by Devendra Goel. The star cast of this movie included names like Kamini Kaushal, S. K. Prem, Chandabai, Om Prakash, Shekhar, Gulab, Master Ramesh etc.
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Ye samaa ham tum jawaan
Posted on: February 3, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Film MAASHUKAA(1953) had 9 songs, 8 of which were sung by Mukesh and Suraiyya and the remaining song “ye sama hum tum jawaan” by Kishore Kumar and Meena Kapoor. The song was written by Shailendra and composed by Roshan. I had heard this song on Radio FM Gold about 3 years back but located the audio clip of this song on YT few months back. The film was produced by Mukesh with himself and Suraiyya as the lead pair. Other cast included Agha, Kuldup Kaur, Durga Khote and Amirbai Karnataki. Four songs from this film have already been discussed in this blog.
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O anmol pyaar bin mol bikey
Posted on: February 3, 2012
“Baadal” (1951) was a Verma Films Production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty and the starcast included names like Premnath, Madhubala, Purnima, Hiralal, Randhir, S. Nazir, Agha etc.
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