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When Bappi Lahiri began his career as a music director in mid 1970s, I thought that he was a music director in the sameleague as R D Burman. Considering that I, as well as the rest of India was totally in love with R D Burman’s music, that was high praise indeed.
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Kaise bane dil ki baat haay
Posted on: March 11, 2011
Movies called “Faraar” have been released in 1955, 1965 as well as 1975. All these movies had some nice songs in them and I have in fact discussed songs from all these movies.
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O babu babu re dil ko bachaanaa
Posted on: March 5, 2011
S D Burman is mainly known as a music director. He also sang songs. Most of his songs were philosophical in nature that would typically be played towards the beginning of the movie and set the tone for the story.
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Ae meri maut thahar
Posted on: February 16, 2011
I am not much familiar with this movie called “Paayal” (1957) even though I have already discussed two songs from this movie in the past. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Padmini in lead roles.
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Zindagi bhar japab tohaar naam
Posted on: February 16, 2011
“Champaakali” (1957) is a movie starring Bharat Bhushan, Suchitra Sen, Shubha Khote etc. This movie is known for some Hemant Kumar songs including the well known song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke. I have in fact discussed as many as three songs from this movie in the past.
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Jhoom jhoom kar chali akeli
Posted on: January 30, 2011
“Taj”(1956) had virtually the same team as “Naagin” (1954). The makers of “Taj” (1956) obviously hoped to replicate the commercial success of “Naagin” 91954) by doing that. I am not sure how much of a commercial success “Taj” (1956) was. It was certainly nowhere close to “Naagin” (1954), that is for sure.
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O o o o baby
Posted on: January 24, 2011
One normally associates Hemant Kumar’s voice and music with soft romantic/sentimental songs. But that does not mean that he could not sing /compose other kind of songs.
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“Ek Jhalak” (1957) is a movie that starred Pradeep Kumar,Vyjyanti Mala, Rajendra Kumar, Anita Guha,Pran, Om Prakash,Mubarak etc. This movie had some nice songs in it. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
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Kare na jo bandon se pyaar
Posted on: January 23, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Bandhan”. The oldest such movie was “Bandhan” (1938) which had music by Saraswati Devi. Then there was a Rajesh Khanna starrer “Bandhan” (1969) that had music by Kalyanji Anandji.
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“Ek Jhalak” (1957) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar,Vyjyanti Mala,Anita Guha,Rajendra Kumar,Om Prakash, Mubarak, Pran etc. This movie may have been forgotten today, but this movie to my mind should be remembered for the songs and music of Hemant Kumar.
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