Posts Tagged ‘Shailendra’
Abhi to raat baaqi hai
Posted on: October 24, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A soft and very sensuous piece of music from the 1969 film, Bandish. The film is produced under the banner of JJ Films, Bombay and directed by Charandas Shokh, the star cast of the film includes Shailendra, Sonia Sahni, Azra, Ulhaas, Sham Kumar, Mirza Musharraf, Kundan, Brahmchari, SK Prem, Sarita Devi, Uma Dhawan etc. The lyricist is yet another new name for this blog, Akmal Hyderabadi. The music is composed by Usha Khanna.
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Ye shehar badaa albelaa
Posted on: October 21, 2011
In the morning today (21st october 2011), I became aware that today was the birthday of Shammi Kapoor. But today was also the day when time was at a premium for me. I managed to post two songs in the morning before getting busy for the rest of the day.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Expressions of love are varied and come in multitude of flavors. And probably the largest collection of such flavors are the songs of Hindi films. It is remarkable that in each film, the poets, and the directors get together and attempt to present these expressions of love in novel and as yet untried ways. And so also in this film and this song. The entire song is presented with the hero firmly clasping one hand of the heroine and not letting her go, while all the time he is singing words, exhorting her to leave if she wants to, nobody is stopping her – Jaaiye Jaaiye Huzoor, Aapko Kis Ne Rokaa Hai.
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“Dil Tera Deewaana” (1962) was a Padmini Pictures production. It was directed by B Ramkrishna Pantulu. The satr cast included Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Mehmood,Shubha Khote,Pran, Om Prakash, Ulhas, Mohan Choti, Mumtaz Begam, Kammo, Manmohan Krishna etc.
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O kali anaar ki na itna sataao
Posted on: October 17, 2011
“Chhoti Behan” (1959) is a movie which was produced by Prasad Productions. It was directed by L V Prasad. The movie had actors like Balraj Sahni, Veena, Rehman, Shyama, Sudesh kumar, Nanda, Dhumal, Radha Krishan, Mehmood, Shubha/shobha Khote, Badri Prasad, KanchanMala, HariShivdasani, Keshav Rana, Jeevankala, Sheela Vaz, Moolchand etc in it.
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When I came across this song for the first time, which was just a few hours ago, I was not aware about the details of this song. It was only when I dug up the information about this movie that I realised that this song is from “Chaand Aur Suraj”(1965).
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“Hare Kaanch Ki Choodiyaan” (1967) was a movie which was produced by Kishore Sahu to launch his daughter Naina Sahu. This movie had Naina Sahu acting opposite Biswajeet.
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Aa aa bhi jaa raat dhalne lagi
Posted on: September 28, 2011
This is one of those songs that everyone is familiar with whether or not one is familiar with the details of the song. I too have heard this song countless times without being very sure which movie this song was from.
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Kal ke chaand aaj ke sapne
Posted on: September 20, 2011
While discussing lori (lullaby) songs, I have mentioned that most lullabies are sung by female singers and picturised on actresses playing mother to some tiny tot. But it does not mean that there have not been lories sung by male singers. There may be just a few such songs but they are there.
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Most music lovers like to listen to light music and they run away a mile if they have to listen to classical music or classical music based songs. I was certainly one of them during my younger days.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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