Posts Tagged ‘Suman Kalyanpur’
Ho meri ek nazar ke do do asar
Posted on: August 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Think of a music director from Punjab, preparing music for a film whose story is set in Bombay. And one of the songs is based on the local folk dance of Maharashtra. And guess what you will get? A Lavani based song spiced with exclamations of ‘haishaa’. And if you don’t believe me, well just go ahead and listen to this wonderful folk dance song from the 1957 film Miss Bombay. (NOTE: ‘haishaa’ is an exclamation that is used often in Punjabi folk songs.).
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Raakhi kehti hai tumse bhaiyya
Posted on: August 13, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The festival of Raksha Bandhan is being celebrated today in many parts of the country. A tradition as old as our culture itself, it is a significant celebration of the brother-sister relationship in our country. By tying a piece of colored auspicious thread on the wrist of her brother, the sister is wishing for his well being, good health and prosperity, and in return the brother is making a promise to protect her and her honor. It is a much loved festival, that occurs on the full moon day of the month of Saawan.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Starting with Dil Deke Dekho in 1959, Usha Khanna has been active in the Hindi film industry as a music director for more than fifty years now, During the 90s and the first decade, her assignments have been few and far between, but she continues to work. As per current information, the film “Khandala House”, for which she has composed the music, is complete and is awaiting release in 2011.
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“Ek Sapera Ek Lutera” (1965) is a movie starring Feroz Khan and Kumkum. This is a B grade movie and like most B grade movies it had some awesome songs in it. The most well known song from this movie is Ham tumse judaa hoke mar jaayenge ro ro ke
Here is another song from this movie. I became aware of this song only just now and this song haq quickly grown up on me.
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Kehti hai jhuki jhuki nazar
Posted on: July 22, 2011
I have listened to this song in the past, but I was not aware of any details of this song and that included the details about the singer too.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music director Ajit Merchant is better known for his contributions to the Gujarati cinema and to the theatre world in Bombay. He did venture into the Hindi film world also, albeit his contribution is limited to less than 10 movies. Saperaa (1961) is one of the movies that Ajit Merchant composed music for. I have already discussed a wonderful Manna Dey solo from this movie, some days back. Here is another beautiful gem of a song from the same movie. This is a duet, that is rendered so lovingly by Manna Dey and Suman Kalyanpur. The lyrics are by Indeewar. The lead roles in this movie are played by Jyoti and Ranjan. Other actors in the film are Tiwari, Jeevnkala, Sunder, Uma Dutt, Neena, Rajan Kapoor etc.
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“Ram Rajya” (1967) is a movie that failed to do well at the box office because mainstream audiences of those days (and even today) by and large kept away from religious movies.
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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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