Posts Tagged ‘Vasant Desai’
Pyaar ki pyaas
Posted on: July 5, 2012
“Pyaar Ki Pyaas” (1961) was a Anupam Chitra Production. It was produced by Pt Mukhram Sharma and Mahesh Kaul. Pt Mukhram Sharma wrote the story and Mahesh Kaul directed the movie. The movie had Manmohan Krishna, Nishi Kohli, Shrikant, Honey Irani, David Abraham, Manorama, Yashodhara Katju, Lal Bahadur, Gopi Krishna, Kamal Mehra, Indira Bansal, Dulari, Kathana, Hayat, Taneja etc.
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Kal saajnaa milna yahaan
Posted on: July 2, 2012
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I dont know how it is that I am finding songs penned by Majrooh Sultanpuri again and again. The song which is under discussion is from the film “Ardhangini”. From the other songs posted here and seen on youtube it is seen that this film stars Meena Kumar and Raj Kumar, and from the title and songs I assume this to be similar type of social film like ‘Aarti”.
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Main saagar ki mast lahar
Posted on: June 14, 2012
This article is written by Sadananad Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I have a 78 RPM record (N.50600) of the song ‘saathi na bane koi’ from film DHUAAN (1953) sung by Krishna Goel which was set to music by Dhaniram. Since I was not able to listen to this record (which in any case is in poor condition) for want of a record player, I have been searching for the audio clip of the same on the internet sites.
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Kalpana ke ghan baraste
Posted on: June 9, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
June 9, 2012 is the birth centenary of the music director Vasant Desai whom I regard as a man who worked in Hindi film industry on his own terms without being a part of the rate race among his contemporary music directors. Being a devotee of the traditional music, he did not succumb to the lure of money in composing music for mass appeal.
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Aayi pari rang bhari kissne pukaara
Posted on: June 9, 2012
“Do Phool” (1958) was a Silver Wings presentation. This movie was directed by Kardar. The movie had David, Agha, Jeevan, Baby Naaz, Master Romi, Vijaya Choudhury, Bipin Gupta, Ulhas, Pratima Devi, Rajan Haksar, Neelam, Amir Baanu, Mumtaz Begum, Banerjee, Nasreen, Amir Ali, Tiloo etc in it.
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Kaanon ki ek nagri dekhi
Posted on: April 22, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In life, every body has a target. We have seen different people choose different routes to reach the same target as they prefer one route over another according to their likings. Target of Atulji’s blog is not to produce another version of HFGK. But to give all hindi film song lovers a chance to cherish songs from different contributors with full lyrics and comments, which is then followed by discussion on the story line of the movies and the artists by our in house encyclopedia, Shri Arunji and others join in.
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Darr laage garje badarwa
Posted on: April 8, 2012
“Ram Rajya” (1967) was a Shri Prakash Pictures production. It was directed by Vijay Bhatt. Starcast of the movie had Badri Prasad, Bhavna, Kumar Sen, Bina Rai, Anil Kumar, Kanhaiyalal, Ved Puri, Manjari, Snehlata, Aruna Rai, Jay, Vijay etc in it.
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Bhaj re madhur madhur naam
Posted on: November 24, 2011
“Narsinh Avtaar” (1949) was a Minerva Movietone presentation. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had names like Mahipal, Laxman, Hari Shivdasani, Tiwari, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth, Madan Mohan, Kamal etc in it.
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Bolo to bolo to bolo to
Posted on: August 12, 2011
In olden days there used to be movies with titles like “School Girl” (1947), “School Master” (1959), ‘College Girl” (1960) etc. It shows that education, especially for girls, was considered important those days. 😀
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