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“Duniya Jhukti Hai” (1960) is a movie starring Shyama and Sunil Dutt. I do not have much information about this movie. But it appears that this movie has some nice songs in it.
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Kit gaye ho khewanhaar
Posted on: August 18, 2011
“Achhoot Kanya” (1936), a movie produced by Himanshu Rai was a movie on a daring subject of its time, viz untouchability. And the movie turned out to be a landmark movie on several counts.
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Man mein mere angaarey hain
Posted on: July 28, 2011
“Malti Madhav” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie. With the movie, its songs too have been forgotten. But these songs are rare gems.
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Qismat ka nahin dosh baawre
Posted on: July 25, 2011
25th july is the birth anniversary of Sudhir Phadke. On this occasion, I have discussed a raere Sudhir Phadke composition. Here is another rare and special Sudhir Phadke composition.
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Main hoon madam Baawri
Posted on: July 22, 2011
“Faisla” (1965) is a B grade movie which had Jugal Kishore,Jagdeep, Sheikh Mukhtaar etc. Later, this movie was remade in 1970s as “Dada” (1978).
Both these movies had music by Usha Khanna.
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Though I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Nastik” (1954), I was not aware of this song till a few hours ago.
This song is a bhajan cum public lament. In this song, Ajit, Usha Kiran and others are sitting in a temple in front of the idols of gods and Ajit sings this song. The song states that non believers tend to blame God for their misdeeds, but their efforts to give a bad name to God cannot succeed. God’s flag will always fly high, come what may.
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Is pyaar ki basti mein
Posted on: June 11, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Even though I have been a long time fan and a collector of songs from obscure movies, and lesser known artists and composers, and even though after having met this blog few months ago, in song after song on a daily basis, I have encountered wonderful creations from obscure movies, yet it seems there is a huge treasure still to be unearthed. And this wonderful melody is such a superb example. Once again, a song heard many years ago on the radio, and recently rediscovered on YouTube. And what a heartening, foot tapping discovery it is.
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Maula Salim Chishti
Posted on: May 22, 2011
“Garm Hawaa” (1973) was a critically acclaimed movie of its time on a sensitive matter (lives and travails of Indian Muslims). It had Geeta Sidharth, Balraj Sahni, Jalal Agha, Farooq Sheikh etc in lead roles.
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Here is a wonderful song that I discovered just now. To be honest I had discovered it some one year back but I had not listened to it and then I had forgotten all about it. Just now I listened to this song and I was amazed at how modern this song sounds even today, even though it is a song from as far back as 1942.
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Meghraaj meghraaj
Posted on: May 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mehboob Khan is famous as one of the key pioneers and one of the greatest film makers of Indian cinema. Born in 1907 in at Bilimoria in Gujarat, he ran away from home at a very young age with dreams of making in big in the film industry of Bombay. He started out as a junior artist (extra) during the silent films era, making a debut as one of forty thieves in the 1927 silent version of ‘Alibaba and Forty Thieves’, produced by the Imperial Film Company of Ardeshir Irani. He caught the attention of Ardeshir Irani who made him an assistant director in his company. Later he moved to Sagar Movietone company, and appeared in bit roles in some of their movies. In 1935 he went on to independently direct his first film, ‘Judgment of Allah’ produced by Sagar Movietone. The movie was a great success in its time. His cameraman for this movie was Faredoon Irani, with whom Mehboob struck a lasting friendship. Faredoon was to capture in camera, almost all the films produced and directed by Mehboob.
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