Posts Tagged ‘Vasant Desai’
Raat jaa rahi hai
Posted on: May 28, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of this blog
Late 1940s, and especially the year 1949, is considered to be a watershed year in the annals of Hindi film music. considered by many to be the dawn of the Golden Age of Hindi film music,
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Here is a bhajan that people may have heard but they may not be aware that this bhajan is originally from a movie.
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Tak tak dhum dhum
Posted on: May 25, 2011
I have discussed four songs from “Do Aankhen Baarah Haath” (1956) in the past. Here is another song from this movie that I heard for the first time only a few hours ago. This song is an inspirational children’s song. It is sung by Lata and it is picturised on Sandhya. The picturisation shows Sadhya giving a vigorous and energetic dance perfrmance to young kids on this song.
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Main hoon nanhi nayi dulhan
Posted on: May 25, 2011
“Dr Kotnis Ki Amar Kahaani”(1946) is based on the real life story of an Indian doctor called Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis, who went to China and served the Chinese patients during the second China-Japan war in 1938. He is held in high regards by the Chinese people. He stayed in China till 1942, when he died of epilepsy. He was only 32 at that time.
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Keh rahi hai raat andheri
Posted on: May 4, 2011
“Hyderabad Ki Naazneen” (1952) is a movie about which very little is known. I have discussed two songs from this movie and the only thing that I have been able to find from the picturisation is that Nigar Sultana played the title role in this movie.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheesh Mahal is a movie by Sohrab Modi from 1950. Sohrab Modi has presented a series of very powerful and very well made movies, which include both historical epics (Sikander, Pukar, Jhansi Ki Rani, Prithvi Vallabh, Mirza Ghalib, Nauserwan-e-Adil, Raaj Hatth etc.) and contemporary social dramas (Kundan, Meetthaa Zeher, Talaaq, Jailor etc.) Sheesh Mahal belongs to the latter category of his productions.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Minerva Movietone is the renowned flagship company that was launched and nurtured by the great Sohrab Modi. He has given such powerful historical epics to the Indian cinema as Pukar, Sikandar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi Ki Rani, and many other great creations like Mirza Ghalib, Nausehrvan-e-Adil, Kundan, Jailor and Raaj Hatth. His films carry a message of strong commitment to social and national issues. A whole generation’s image of Indian history and Indian society is based on his films. Not all of his movies were commercial successes, but each of them has an indelible imprint of Sohrab Modi’s uncompromising quality and classic cinema.
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Lo kaamna pooran huyi hai
Posted on: April 20, 2011
I have discussed a couple of songs from “Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan” (1959) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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“Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan” (1959) is a Mythological/historical movie which had actors like Jairaj, Anita Guha, Ulhas, Sapru, B M Vyas, Chand Usmani, Sundar etc in it. Topicwise/ budgetwise, it was a B grade movie. So naturally it follows that the music of this movie must be A grade. 🙂
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Charan tumhaare phool hamaare
Posted on: April 18, 2011
“Narsimha Avtaar” (1949), as the name suggests, was a religious/ mythological movie. This movie was produced by Minerva Movietone. It was directed by Sohrab Modi and it had actors like Laxman, Niranjan Sharma, Shobhana Samarth, Mahipal, Tiwari, Madan Mohan,Hari Shivdasani, Kamal etc in it.
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