Posts Tagged ‘Usha Khanna’
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Found another lost gem today. What a racy and enthusiastic rendering by Rafi Saab !
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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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Dil ki lagan sainyya jaane naa
Posted on: August 9, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The decades of 50s and 60s are known as the golden age of Hindi film music, and that for a good reason. The quality of music and songs was absolutely superb, no matter what the content of the films used to be. One just has to untwine one thread on this time line, and immediately there is a gem of a song to be heard. Maybe it is an obscure film, maybe the song itself is unheard, or not heard for ages. Maybe the sound of the song is such that the first reaction is, whose voice is this, whose composition is this. But just let the song play and simply listen to it, and before long you will start loving it, and now the reaction would be, where has been this gem hiding all these years. Atul ji has written over and over again about this phenomena, about finding unheard gems from obscure movies, with every plunge one takes into this ocean of music.
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Ham aur tum aur ye samaa
Posted on: August 8, 2011
Shammi Kapoor discovered his calling as the actor we all know and admire in 1957 with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha”. It was followed by “Dil Deke Dekho” (1959) and the phenomenon of Shammi Kapoor was well on its way.
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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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Kyaa dhadak dhadak dil dhadkey
Posted on: July 16, 2011
Music director Roshan was born on 16 july in the year 1917. He had a very successful career lasting nearly 18 years before he was snatched away at a relatively young age of only 50, when he was at the peak of his musical prowess.
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Dekhiye yoon na sharmaayiyegaa
Posted on: July 8, 2011
“Bindiya” (1960) is a little known movie starring Balraj Sahni,Padmini etc. I had neither aware of this movie not its songs till recently.
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Maanjhi meri qismat ke
Posted on: July 4, 2011
Here is a lovely “maanjhi”(boatman) song with a difference. The song is very much a boat song, in the sense that Asha Parekh, looking young and pretty, is standing on a boat in a river and singer this song. And she is singing about “maanjhi”, but here “maanjhi” does not mean the boatman, but it means the man who will steer her destiny. Yes, she is singing this song about her beloved (Sunil Dutt).
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Nigaahon ki jaadoogari
Posted on: June 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Shabnam (1964) is a fantasy adventure, a mix of comedy, action and intrigue in the royal palace. With the combination of Mehmood (still trying at that time to succeed as a hero), Sheikh Mukhtar, Jeevan, Helen, Vijay Laxmi, Mukri, Mohan Choti etc., the roles and story line is almost predictable. Memsaab’s blog carries a very interesting review of this movie (click here to go to the review). The movie has had a pretty successful run in its time, in the B circuit release cinema houses. But more than that, this movie is remembered for its music, rather it is a musical blockbuster, as Atul ji has mentioned in his post for one of the songs ‘Har Nazar Mein Sau Afsaane’.
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I am aware of two movies called “Insaaf”. Both of them were B grade movies that were released 10 years apart. “Insaaf” (1956) had Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant,Kamal Kapoor,Helen,Durga Khote etc whereas “Insaaf” (1966) had Prithviraj Kapoor,Dara Singh,Indira,Helen,Sundar,Tuntun,Azaad,Lalita Pawaar,Pravin Chaudhary etc. Both these movies had nice songs in them.
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