Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
In Hindi movies, singing songs is a privilege of the lead actors, and they sing at least half a dozen songs, including romantic songs.
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Haay baalam kitna jaalam
Posted on: November 16, 2011
Helen has been the most well known item song dancer in Hindi movies. But she was not the first one. The original item song dancer in Hindi movies was Cuckoo. In fact, it was Cuckoo who was instrumental in getting Helen her initial breaks in Hindi movies. So in a way Helen was Cuckoo’s protege.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954), a Sahu Production movie, which was directed by Kishore Sahu had a star cast consisting of names like Kishore Sahu, Ramesh Gupta, Sumitra Devi, Jankidas, Reginald Jackson, Seema, Asha Mathur, Cuckoo, Moni Chatterji, Helen, Odette Ferguson, etc. The story line of this movie, as I have guessed from watching its songs is rather interesting. It shows an Indian man falling in love with an English woman and an English man returning the compliments by falling in love with an Indian woman.
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In 1970s, kids of my age (and for that matter much of the Indian population) who were used to movie songs of the kind popular in 1970s, found the singing style of old songs quite amusing. And Saigal’s singing style was the source of big mirth among people. There were people who would sing in Saigal style for the purpose of amusing themselves and others. Songs like “jab dil hi toot gaya” were “popular” for this purpose.
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“Mayur Pankh”(1954) is a movie produced by Sahu Films and directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Kishore Sahu,Sumitra Devi, Helen, David, Asha Mathur, Seema, Cuckoo, Ramesh Gupta, Odette Ferguson etc in it.
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Dheere chalaao zaraa
Posted on: November 10, 2011
“Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961) is va Filmyug Presentation. The movie was directed by Mohan Kumar. Starcast of the movie had names like Rajendra Kumar, Vyjyantimala, Leela Chitnis, Shaminder, Raj Mehra, Nazir Hussain, Shivraj, Mumtaz Begum, Sunder etc in it.
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“Chhoti Si Mulaaqaat” (1967) was a movie produced by a production house called Our Movies. Uttam Kumar, by now a legend in Bangla movies was the producer and the movie was directed by Alo Sarkar. The movie had Vyjayanthi mala, Uttam kumar, Yogita Bali, Rajendranath, Veena, Shashikala, Tarun Bose
Pratima Devi, Badri Prasad, Sulochana Chatterjee, Ratan Gaurang, Praveen Paul, Radheshyam,Sanjeev Kumar etc in this movie. This movie was based on a Bangla story “Agnipariksha” written by Ashapoorna Devi.
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Man re tu hi bataa kyaa gaaun
Posted on: November 4, 2011
There are occasions when a couple may have strained relations and they may not be on talking terms with each other. But they are required to put up a facade of normalcy in front of their acquaintances. This song is a lovely picturisation of that nature. It is a get together party and the friends of Rajendra Kumar want Jamuna to sing a song. Rajendra Kumar, who otherwise would not speak to her, is contrained to request her to sing a song. Jamuna, with a heavy heart, is forced to sing this song.
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Jhan jhan jhan jhan paayal baaje
Posted on: October 31, 2011
S D Burman, a highly influential music director during the golden era of Hindi movie music was around for nearly the entire duration of the golden era. Born on 1 october 1906, S D Burman began his career as a Hindi movie music director in 1946 and he continued to enthrall music lovers with his compositions till 1975. He breathed his last on 31st october 1975. So today is his death anniversary.
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Na chhedo kal ke afsaane
Posted on: October 29, 2011
“Raat Aur Din”(1967) was produced by Jaffer Hussain and directed by Satyen Bose. This movie had actors like Nargis,Pradeep Kumar, Feroz Khan, Harin Chattopadhyaya, K. N. Singh, Anwar, Anoop Kumar, Naaz, Leela Misra, Laxmi Chhaaya etc in it.
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