Posts Tagged ‘Shamshad Begam’
In India, being a “gareeb” (poor) has often been equated to being good and nice. And likewise, being rich has been considered being bad and evil. So it is not uncommon to find Hindi movies, especially old ones, championing the cause of gareebs, the way Indian politicians champion their cause even today, instead of asking the basic question as to why gareebs should even exist in the first place.
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This post is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
I came across a veritable gem today, that I had once heard many many years ago; I had no info about this song, just remembered the tune and some words, that would sometimes just come up in my mind by themselves and I would hum them, always longing to hear this song again. And today, while searching for something else, I accidentally bumped into this old long lost friend of mine.
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Sajjad Hussain, regarded as the only original music director of Hindi movies, was a temperamental genius who would brook no interference in his creative work and leave movies in a huff if he felt that his producers were interfering in his work. As a result, there are several movies where he composed one or two songs before he would leave the movie.
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“Dilruba” (1950) has some awesome songs in it. In fact I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie. In fact I was so impressed with one song ( Dhak dhak karti chali jeewan ki rail re )of this movie that I had posted that as the 2000th song of this blog.
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“Mirza Ghalib” (1954) is a movie based on the life of legendary Urdu Poet Mirza Ghalib. This movie had most of its songs based on Mirza Ghalib’s poems, so in effect, Ghalib himself is the lyricist of most songs of this movie, even though he had dead for some one hundred years by the time this movie was made.
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Tabeeyat saaf ho gayi saaf
Posted on: December 21, 2010
“Sagaai” (1951) is an action/adventure movie starring Premnath,Rehana,Purnima, Vijaylaxmi, Gope,Yaqoob,Ifteqar,Heeralal, Sundar etc. This movie has some interesting songs in it.
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“Jogan” (1950) is a movie starring Cast: Anwari, Dilip Kumar, Manju, Nargis, Pratima Devi, Rajendra Kumar, Tabassum etc in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past, including the timeless Meera Bhajan Ghoonghat ke pat khol re .
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Aana piyaa more aanaa
Posted on: December 21, 2010
“Namoona” (1949) was a movie in which Kamini Kaushal and Dev Anand were paired together. This movie had some very nice songs in it.
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“Shabnam” (1949) is a movie replete with nice songs. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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