Posts Tagged ‘Usha Khanna’
Tera bhi kisi pe dil aaye
Posted on: September 29, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hind movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The decade of 60s was the most prolific and busy for Usha Khanna. A very large body of work of music compositions created by her, came during these years. And all the music she has created is wonderfully hummable and still tingles the heart when one of her songs is played. The 1965 film, ‘Ek Sapera Ek Lutera’ is no different. Practically all the songs of this film went on to become very popular, although the movie itself was a B grade production, and did just OK on the box office. Produced under the banner of Dimple Films, Bombay and directed by Naresh Kumar, the film has lyrics written by Asad Bhopali and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. The star cast is a typical B grade lineup for those times, featuring Feroze Khan, Kumkum, Uma Dutt, Mumtaz Begum, Shyam Kumar, Indira Bansal, Tuntun, Ramavtar, Rashid Khan, Daljeet,Sheikh, Sunder, Gopal Ralhan, Rani, Madhu Apte, Krishna, Khairaati etc. The film is a costume action cum romance drama, that is based on the life style and culture of snake charmers and gypsies.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
One song of the film Flat No. 9 (1961) is already posted on this blog. That one is the iconic Mukesh song, ‘Gaa Deewaane Jhoom Ke, Raat Ki Zulfen Choom Ke’. But the remaining songs in this film are no less a delight to listen to. Despite its wonderful music, there is literally no information available online, about this film. From the Geet Kosh, one finds that this film was produced under the banner of WS Films, Bombay. It is a social drama directed by Ramesh Sharma. There are a total of 6 songs in this film, four are sung by Lata Mangeshkar, one by Mukesh, and one by Asha Bhosle. The lyrics are written by Majrooh Sultanpuri, and the wonderful music is by Usha Khanna. The star line up for this film includes Ashok Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Tiwari, Jagdish Sethi, Helen, Dhoomal, Narbada Shankar, Ravikant, Dinesh Kumar, Kehsav, Prem Saagar, Razia, Aasi etc.
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In the earlier days of Hindi movie music, the songs were based on classical songs alone. With time, folk music based songs became to be composed and that led to a surge in the popularity of Hindi movie music.
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“Main Wohi Hoon” (1966) is a B grade movie produced by M M Productions. B A Mehmood is the producer and this movie was directed by A Shamsheer. This movie had actors like Feroz Khan, Kumkum, I S Johar,Bela Bose, Roopesh Kumar, Madan Puri,Johny whisky, S A Bakar, Munshi Munaqqa etc in it.
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Pyaar milega jab na kahin
Posted on: September 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The 1967 film, ‘Woh Koi Aur Hoga’, is a production under the banner of Amrit Kala Mandir, and is directed by A Shamsheer. The films is an action drama with a star cast that includes Feroze Khan, Mumtaz, Sohrab Modi, Dhumal, Asit Sen, Meenakshi and Sham Kumar. The primary singing voice is that of Mohammed Rafi, with interleaved expression of annoyance and exasperation by Mumtaz. The lyrics are by Asad Bhopali, and the music is composed by Usha Khanna.
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“Main Wohi Hoon” (1966) is a B grade movie produced by M M Production. A Shamsheer was the director of this movie. The star cast of the movie included Feroz Khan, Kumkum, Murad, Johnny Walker, I. S. Johar, Madan Puri, Roopesh Kumar etc.
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O meri jaan bachnaa
Posted on: September 25, 2011
“Faislaa” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie produced by Jugal Kishore Productions. It was directed by Jugal Kishore. The movie had Sheikh Mukhtar, Jagdeep,L. Vijayalaxmi, Jugal Kishore, Jeevan, Sulochana Chatterji, Niranjan Sharma,Helen etc.
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“Main Hoon Alladin” (1965) was a quintessential B grade movie which was produced by Ramkrishna Films. It was directed by Mohammad Hussain. The movie had Ajit and Saeeda Khan in lead roles. Other actors in this movie were Madan Puri, Maruti, Jagirdar, Shyam Sunder, Mumtaz Begum, David Abraham etc.
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“Aao Pyaar Karen” (1964) was a movie produced by Filmalaya. This movie was a home production of Joy Mukherji, the hero of this movie, because his family was the major stake holder in Filmalaya. Saira Bano was the leading lady opposte him. Other actors in this movie were Madhvi, Shyam Chatterji, Rajendranath, Merlyn, Manavendranath, Jayant Shah etc. This movie was directed by R K Nayyar.
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I had mentioned in an earlier discussion that Helen’s aspirations (if any) of playing mainstream rolers in Hindi movies (where mainstream roles means donning a sari /salwar kurta etc and singing songs that are the preserve of leading ladies) were realised on movies like “Cha Cha Cha” (1964) and “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979). She in fact won the Filmfare award for best supporting actress too, for her role in “Lahu Ke Do Rang” (1979).
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