Posts Tagged ‘Vasant Desai’
Main natkhat ik kali
Posted on: July 2, 2011
“Do Behnen”(1959) is a movie that few people are aware of. It is this movie that had one of the iconic Pradeep songs viz Mukhdaa dekh le praani zaraa darpan mein .
This movie in fact has some very nice songs in it which deserve to be better known among music lovers.
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Saaf karo insaaf karo
Posted on: July 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Vasant Desai had a fairly long stint of thirty plus years in the film industry, and yet his total assignments as a music director are less than fifty. It is said that he did not take up or did not get many assignments because of his style. His style is deeply rooted in the classical and folk traditions, and he maintained that style throughout his career. In the 60s and 70s, his assignments are few and far between, and yet, with each outing as a composer, he has left an indelible mark.
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Jhooloongi jhooloongi
Posted on: June 30, 2011
“Shakuntala” (1943) is easily a milestone movie in the annals of Hindi movies. It was the very first movie of Rajkamal Chitramandir that V Shantaram had founded. This was the first time that V Shantaram collaborated with Vasant Desai as music director and Jayshree as the leading lady. He in fact fell in love with Jayshree and married her during that time. This movie was a big success and our resident expert Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh informs us that this movie had run for 104 weeks (viz two years) in a single movie hall namely Swastik Cinema of Bombay.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Parbat Pe Apna Dera (1944) is one of the more important creations of V Shantaram. The film deals with the concept of ‘maya’ the enduring allurement of the material world that spares no one. The theme also deals with the consequences fo desires, which are mostly painful and damaging. Briefly, Ulhas is an ascetic who lives alone on a hilltop, and does not allows any visitors or passersby to come to him. Once, Vanmala chances to come face to face with this ascetic, in one of her treks. She is injured, and the ascetic has some cure that relieves her of pain. She is the daughter of a rich person, probably used to having her way. She insists on continuing to meet Ulhas, against his wishes, and continues to bring him gifts, almost setting up a household on the hilltop, once where there was an abode of renunciation. One thing leads to another, and the ascetic ties the nuptial knot with this rich lady, leaves his ‘parbat’ (symbolically the high vantage point of human experience), and comes down to ‘civilization’ to live with his newfound family.
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Jaao chamka subah ka taaraa
Posted on: June 28, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A soft song of separation from the 1952 movie, Hyderabad Ki Naazneen. Arunkumar ji has provided a brief about this movie in one of his earlier comments. I reproduce it here with some edits.
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Naao chali naani ki naao chali
Posted on: June 27, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
As a child, I have been a very dedicated listener to the Hindi film songs on All India Radio and Radio Ceylon. Besides the song, another program that I never missed was the weekly program for children on Sundays, “Bacchon Ke Liye”, broadcast at 9 am. This hour long program was a most fascinating trip to many worlds. The program was hosted by the well known radio announcer Madhu Chanda (later also worked on Doordarshan), and a gentleman whose name I cannot recall now. The program consisted of information, entertainment, games (e.g. antaakshari competition, but not of filmi songs; it was on current Hindi poetry). We had stories, short plays, memoirs of great men and women from Indian history, programs on new adventures in science and exploration, programs on values and behavior. For all the years that I followed it on the radio, one thing that this program never was – it was never boring.
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“Shakuntala”(1943) is a mythological movie that had actors like Chandra Mohan, Jayshree, Ameena, Nimbalkar, Nana Palsikar etc in it. This story was based on Sasnkrit story “Aabhigyan Shakuntalam” written by the great Sanskrit author Kalidas.
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Kamal hai mere saamne
Posted on: June 25, 2011
“Shakuntala” (1943) is a movie where Jayshree had played the title role. She sang her own songs in this movie. I have already discussed one such song from this movie.
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Choodi dheere pehna o choodi waali
Posted on: June 24, 2011
Obscure movies can sometimes (read often) throw up some pleasant surprises in the form of songs that one did not know existed ! I keep discovering many forgotten gems almost on a daily basis.
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Not too many people are aware of this movie called “Uddhaar” (1949). When one searches for the details of this movie, it turns out that the movie had quite a few big names in it. This movie had Dev Anand, Munawwar Sultana,Pratima Devi,Bharat Bhushan,Nirupa Roy,Ram Singh etc in it. This movie, which was produced by Pratibha Chitra Mandir was directed by S S Kulkarni.
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