Posts Tagged ‘Shewan Rizvi’
“Ek Musaafir Ek Haseena” (1962) is a Filmalaya production movie. This movie was directed by Raj Khola. this movie had Joy Mukherjee and Sadhana in lead roles. Other actors in this movie included Dhumal, Rajendranath, Kamal Kapoor, Siddhu, Jagdish Raaj, Sulochana Chatterji, Chaman Puri, Shyam Chatterji, Neera Sameer, Gyani, Malika etc.
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Chal chal chameli baag mein
Posted on: September 8, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Dada” (1978). Later I found out that another movie of the same name was released in 1966 too. Both these movies incidentally had the same music director, viz Usha Khanna.
Now I find that there was another movie of the same name, which was released in 1949.
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Dil toot ke bolaa
Posted on: July 14, 2011
I was aware of a movie called “Hanste Zakhm” but not “Hanste Aansoo” . It turns out that this movie called “Hanste Aansoo” (1950) had the “distinction” of becoming the first ever Hindi movie to get an “Adults” certificate for this movie. 🙂
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Wo pehli mulaaqaat
Posted on: May 20, 2011
Sajjad Hussain is regarded as one of the most talented music directors in Hindi movies. A respected music director like Anil Biswas described him as the only original music director in the industry, which is a very high praise indeed.
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Aa main bataaun tu hai kyaa
Posted on: April 11, 2011
“Barsaat Ki Raat” (1964) was a movie that only had qawwalis in it, and the movie, riding on these qawwalis went to to become an all time hit movie. Inspired by the success of this movie, a B grade movie maker tried to emulate the movie by making another movie on the same theme. This movie maker in fact went one step ahead and named his movie “Qawwali ki raat”! What an inspired title ! 🙂
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Gori chali piyaa ke desh
Posted on: March 11, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Shamaa”(1961) that had music by Ghulam Mohammad. Now it turns out that there is another movie by the same name that was released in 1946 and it had music by Ghulam Haider. I other words, both these movies with similar names have music by similarly named music directors as well.
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Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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The movie “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960) was a movie that was a qawwali bonanza as this movie consisted mainly of one awesome qawwali following other. After the huge success of this movie, other movie makers tried to ape its success formula by coming with movies with similar theme. One of these movies was called “Qawwali Ki Raat” (1964) thus leaving no ambiguity about the fact that it was inspired from “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960).
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Meri ho gayi unse baat
Posted on: November 17, 2010
By now I have discussed as many as 39 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain for Hindi movies. Considering that he gave music for only about 100 songs, finding the remaining songs is becoming increasingly difficult and so discovery of every additional Sajjad Hussain song from now onwards in a cause to rejoice, because the remaining song are truly difficult to locate.
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Teri nazar mein main rahoon
Posted on: October 29, 2010
A few days ago, I had discussed about my resolution to post all the available Sajjad Hussain compositions in this blog. So far I have discussed 33 such songs which amount to about one third of all the Sajjad Hussain compositions in Hindi movies. After that, I have hit a wall and I was unable to find more songs to discuss.
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