Posts Tagged ‘Singer-MD’
Dil se hain shehzaade ham
Posted on: June 28, 2012
When one thinks of a song sung by Hemant Kumar, one generally imagines the song to be a romantic song or a serious one. It is difficult to imagine Hemant Kumar singing a tapori song.
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“Patanga” (1949) was a Varma Films Production. It was directed by H S Rawail. The movie had Shyam, Nigar Sultana, Yacub, Gope, Cuckoo, Purnima, Randhir, Mohana, Ramesh Sinha, Shyama, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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“Inspector”(1956) was a Pushpa Pictures presentation. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. the movie had Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali, Pratima Devi, Maruti, N. Hussain, Achla Sachdev, K. N. Singh, Mehmood, Pran etc.
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“Daaku Ki Ladki” (1954) is an extremely obscure movie by now. This movie was a Harish production movie. It was produced and directed by Harish. The movie had Geeta Bali, Sheikh Mukhtar, Arjun, Mukri, Deepa, Shivraj, Cuckoo, Sankatha Prasad etc in it.
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Ek din sapne mein dekha sapna
Posted on: April 26, 2012
This article is written by Peevesie, a contributor of lyrics and now a writeup contributor to this blog.
It is another of my absolute favorite songs and movies. I actually have a superstition that if I see a Hrishikesh Mukherjee Movie on the morning of an exam or an important day, the day will go well. Golmaal(1979) is a movie that came regularly in the morning 6 am slot in SAB Tv and SET MAX while I was in school and thus went on to be a much by-hearted film. In fact I remember when my cousins were 2 yrs old and I called my aunt one day, she told me that they were watching this movie. I replied that I am extremely proud of her, she is giving them the right education and they will grow up to be like me. She laughingly said that then I will shut the movie right away.
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Ye duniya ek saagar hai
Posted on: April 20, 2012
“Bandish” (1955) was a Basu Chitra Mandir Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari,Mehmood, Pratima Devi,Bipin Gupta, Meena Kumari, Daisy Irani, Bhanu Banerji, N. Hussain, Sajjan, Shammi, Indira, Narbada Shanker etc in it.
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Golmaal hai bhai sab golmaal hai
Posted on: April 17, 2012
It is often said that Hindi movie stories have little resemblance with real life, because real life stories always differ from the reel life depicted in movies. Still there are occasions when some occurrences in one’s real life may remind you of some movie.
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When I was in my formative years, R D Burman ruled the roost as a music director and I, alongwith the rest of India was mad about his music. It turns out that he has a following not only among those who lived during his era, but also among those who were born after R D Burman’s era.
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Saawan ke nazaare hain
Posted on: April 4, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
KHAZAANCHI (1941) was produced by Lahore based Pancholi Art Picture owned by Dilsukh Pancholi and directed by Moti Gidwani. The star cast included Ramola, S D Narang, M Ismail, Durga Mota, Manorama, Ajmal etc. Recently, I watched this film on the internet and felt as if I was watching one of the films of 50s with a familiar story line – romance, a villain, murders, court proceedings, climax scenes of chase etc and finally victory of truth over evil. No doubt, this film was a blockbuster at the box office front. I am giving below a synopsis of the film story just to get an idea as to how this type of the story line became familiar in the films mostly produced in the 50s.
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Mere dil ki ghadi kare tik tik tik
Posted on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
ALBELAA (1951) was a musical blockbuster produced and directed by Master Bhagwan. In my childhood days, I had quite often heard ‘shaam dhale khidki tale tum seeti bajaanaa chhod do’ but none of the other songs from the film. I saw this film for the first time on Doordarshan in early 80s. Thereafter, I must have seen this movie a couple of times after I bought VCD of this film last year. This was Bhagwan’s first venture for a big budget film after producing and directing some low budget C grade films. The film was the third highest box office grosser of 1951 ranking after ‘Aawaraa’ and ‘Baazi’. It was an amazing feat for Bhagwan to achieve a box office success with this film despite having a run of the mill story ( probably based on his own life), a lacklustre direction and a non-conventional lead actor like him. The credit goes to the film’s foot tapping songs which became a craze those days and are still popular with the new generation as well.
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