Posts Tagged ‘Usha Khanna’
Mere pyaase man ki bahaar
Posted on: August 29, 2012
Today (29 august) is the birthday of Leena Chandawarkar. Yesterday (28 august) was the birthday of Anil Dhawan. These two had worked together in “Honeymoon” (1973), which was a Rajshree production movie which was produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Hiren Nag. The movie had Anil Dhawan, Leena Chandavarkar, Suresh Chatwal, Nazima, Utpal Dutt, Shyama, Mukri, Sunder, Leela Misra, Senior Sulochana, Pravin Paul, Purnima, Agha, Shammi, Uttam Anand, Shail Chaturvedi, Praveen Kumar, Uma Dhawan, Madhup Sharma, Tarun Ghosh, Machhar, Sonal, Darshan, Pardesi, Shriram Shashtri, Baby Gayatri, Mona, Rajni,Indu Mehta etc on it.
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Bolo bolo kuchh to bolo
Posted on: August 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When ‘Dil Deke Dekho’ was released in 1959, the only thing I remembered at that time about the movie was that it was a film in which Asha Parekh was introduced as a new heroine to pair with Shammi Kapoor. The film was a super hit and its songs became very popular. But little did I know at that time that the film’s songs were composed by a new music director called Usha Khanna. In fact, I carried a wrong impression for some time that O P Nayyar was the music director of this film. Even for her second film ‘ Hum Hindustani’ which was released in 1960, I thought that the music director was Dattaram, the music assistant to Shankar-Jaikishan. I carried these impressions as the music compositions of these two films were very close to the styles of O P Nayyar and Shankar Jaikishan respectively. After about 4 decades when I revisited her songs, mostly of 60s and 70s, I felt that she had developed her own style of music for the songs of her later films.
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Dost ban ke aaye ho
Posted on: July 31, 2012
“Bin Phere Ham Tere” (1979) was an N P International production. It was produced by N P Singh and directed by Rajat Rakshit. The movie had Vinod Mehra, Sarika, Rajendra kumar, Asha Parekh, Nadira, Nazneen, Kamal Kapoor, Johnny whisky, C.S.Dubey, Mushthaq Merchant, Jagadish Raj, Janki Dass etc in it.
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Apne liye jiye to kya jiye
Posted on: July 17, 2012
“Baadal” (1966) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Sheikh Mukthar, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Hira Lal, Shammi Aunty, Ratnamala, Niroo, Fazal Khan, Prem, Bob, Ali Razak etc in it.
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Bin phere ham tere
Posted on: July 12, 2012
Today (12 july) is the death anniversary of Rajendra Kumar. Movies featuring Rajendra Kumar tended to have fantastic music in them. As a result, we are spoilt for choice when it comes to discussing songs picturised on Rajendra Kumar. And this despite the fact that we have already discussed several such songs in the blog in the past.
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Jalti hai duniya jalti rahe
Posted on: June 30, 2012
“Johar Mehmood in Hongkong”(1971) was produced by K Z Seth and Madan Chopra. It was directed by S A Akbar. The movie had I S Johar, Mehmood, Sonia Sahni, Kamal Kapoor, Tuntun, Manorama, Agha, Mukri, Polson, Pran, Madhumati, Mehmood Junior, Raj Kishore, Murad, Tiwari, Aruna Irani, Haroon etc in it.
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Julmi saanwariyaa ne hans ke maara
Posted on: May 23, 2012
“Faisla” (1965) was a B grade movie with A grade music. Come to think of it, the story line of the movie was A grade too.
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“Aao Pyaar Karen” (1964) was a Filmalaya Production. It was produced by S Mukherji and directed by R K Nayyar. The movie had Joy Mukerji, Saira Banu, Shyam Chatterji, Rajendranath, Madhvi, Merlyn, Sanjay, Brijmohan, Manavendranath, Jayant M. Shah etc in it.
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“Shabnam” (1964) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had actors like Mehmood, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sheikh Mukhtaar, Helen, Jeevan, Mukri, Shyam Kumar, Mohan Choti, Jerry, Cukku, Jeevan Kala, Fazal Khan, Uma Dutt, Suresh, Bismilla, Jullian, Khurshid Khan, Habib, Ramesh, Juggu, Surender, Mahabal, Tukaram, Gopal, Sinha, Narayan, Mithoo Miyaa, Shiraz, Shanta Kumari, Hiralal(Guest Artist), Moolchand etc in it.
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