This BLOG is about the Past of Hindi Films Specially Black and White Cinema We will refresh your memories by bringing out forgotten or unseen songs and clippings of film scenes We will try to give you as much information as we gather from our research.
This Blog was started as a one-man’s passion for film history but has now become an addiction for many music lovers who are equally passionate about Hindi films
Showing posts with label music director cum singer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music director cum singer. Show all posts
Shri Nath Tripathi (14 December 1912 – 28 March 1988) was an Indian composer, whose active years were from the 1930s to the 1980s.Tripathi's multi-faceted work range included being a composer, writer, actor, and director of films. His first film as a composer was Chandan (1942).He continued to compose for films like Janam Janam Ke Phere (1957), where the song "Zara Saamne Toh Aao Chhaliye" became the top Binaca Geetmala song. The famous song "Na Kisi Ki Aankh Ka Noor Hoon" was also composed by him. Tripathi turned to direction in 1957 starting with Rani Roopmati. Two of his films with 7Nirupa Roy and Bharat Bhushan, Rani Roopmati (1959) and Kavi Kalidas (1959), are cited as having "cinematic merit" and "unforgettable music" Here are some of the great songs by this forgotten composer
He was not only a composer but also a singer. He sang some renowned and unforgettable duets with Lata such as Kitna haseen hai mausam in film Azad or Shola Jo bhadke in Albela. Influenced by Benny Goodman, Ramachandra introduced in his compositions the alto sax in combination with guitar and harmonica. An outstanding feature of many of these songs is their intense curiosity about western mores and manners; they often employed western musical idioms in exaggerated fashion either for satire or irony. These songs mirrored the curiosity of the educated, urbanized Indian youth.He did numerous experiments in western/Indian and middle-eastern styles.in 'Meri Jaan..Sunday Ke Sunday..' (Shehnai) he introduced the Benny Goodman style of jazz clarinet in combination with an Indian melody. Other westernized songs e.g. 'Shola Jo Bhadke..' and 'Ye Diwana Ye Parwana..' (Albela) employed cabaret type dance featuring bongo drums, oboes, clarinets, trumpets, saxophones, etc.He sang the title song "Shin Shinaki Boobla Boo" with Lata Mangeshkar, which included rock rhythms. He provided the musical score for the scat song "Ina mina dika" in "Aasha".
C Ramchandra with Lata Mangeshkar
He was born on 12th January 1918 in Puntamba, a small town in Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. He joined the film industry playing the lead role in Y. V. Rao's movie, Naganand. He also had some small roles at Minerva Movietone in the movies Said-e-Havas (1936) and Atma Tarang (1937). He was a good singer, he sang for all the topmost heroes of that time like Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand. Ramachandra provided harmonium accompaniment for Minerva composers Bindu Khan and Habib Khan. He debuted as music director in Tamil movies with Jayakkodi and Vana Mohini. He received public notice as a good composer in Bhagwan Dada's "Sukhi Jeevan", and established a long association that culminated with the musical box office hit "Albela". C. Ramachandra's biggest success as a music composer was the 1953 movie Anarkali starring Beena Roy in the title role and Pradeep Kumar. The songs that he composed for this movie are today legendary. Songs of this movie like "Yeh Zindagi Usiki Hai", "Mujhse Mat Poochh Mere Ishq Main Kya Rakha Hai", He gave the hit music of V Shantaram's Navrang.
C.Ramchandra with Kavi Pradeep &Lata-Mangeshkar
He was the composer of the highly popular patriotic song "Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo", which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar and penned by poet Pradeep, He died on 5 January 1982 in Mumbai. Some of his great songs
R D Burman has been credited with revolutionizing Bollywood music. He incorporated a wide range of influences from several genres in his scores.The sheer breadth of his music, allied with a unique ability to not only make folk and classical music accessible to the modern listener, but present them in an original, yet contemporary manner for young listeners. While we mostly associate a more western sound with RD, I think of him as a composer who simplified the most complex Hindustani classical music and made it accessible to the masses. Here are some great Raga based songs created by him. The first film R D Burman gave the music was Chhote Nawab released in 1961. The first song he composed in this film was Ghar Aaja Ghir Aayi Badra in Raga Malgunji sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
Yodeling is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the high-pitch head register. It originated in Europe, especially in central Europe. In the movies, it wasJimmie Rodgers who popularised Yodeling.
In India, it was Kishore Kumar who introduced yodelling in Hindi Films. Here’s a story: his brother Anoop went to Austria and bought some records with yodels there. One day when Anoop went home, he heard yodelling in the house and thought somebody was playing his records… but it was Kishore who had learned how to do it.The first time Kishore Kumar tried Yodeling in the song was in 1950 film Muqaddar, It was a duet, the first duet of Kishore with Asha Bhosle. The second time Kishore tried with Meena Kapoor for the song " ye sama hum tum jawaan,pehloo se dil sarak jaaye.." from the film Mashooqa,1953, The next yodelling song was"Tikdambazi" from the 1954 film Adhikar. Piya Piya Piya Mera Jiya Pukare from 1955 released film Baap Re Baap.was a hit so after that many music directors tried Yodeling in their compositions. The next hit song of Kishore was "Nakhrewali Nakhrewali" from the 1956 film New Delhi. Kishor Kumar's film Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) had many songs where S D Burman used his yodelling. On his 89th Birth Anniversary, I decided to bring for you a compilation of his best yodelling in songs like Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana (Andaz, 1971), Bhor Aayee Gaya Andhiyara (Bawarchi, 1972), Ye Sham Mastani (Kati Patang, 1970) and more. Check them out:
Song of Muqaddar 1950 Audio only
Song of Mashooqa,1953
Song of Baap Re Baap 1955
Song of New Delhi (1956)
Song of Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958)
Song of Jhumroo (1961)
Song of Jewel Thief (1967)
Song of Pyar Ka Mausam [1969]
Song of Andaz (1971)
Song of Mere Jeevan Saathi (1972)
Song of Bombay to Goa (1972)
Song of Darling Darling (1977)
Song of Do Aur Do Paanch (1980)
then introduced by him to the world of Hindi film music.
PART 1 We all know that the Music Composers are also good singers but not all composers sang in films.In this blog I have taken those composers who sang in one or more films.In the 50s or60s the composers were very particular about the voice of the singer that suits the actor or not.Those days the composer would only sing songs that suited their voice.Today, more and more music directors are composing and singing many songs out of their albums be it AR Rahman, Amit Trivedi, Ram Sampath, Vishal Shekhar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shankar Mahadevan, Sajid-Wajid and many others. I start alphabetically the composers who sang for the films Amirbai Karnataki. Amirbai was a talented singer and actress who was fluent in Kannada (mother tongue) and Gujarati languages..In 1943, with the release of Bombay Talkies' Kismet (1943 film) (1943), she achieved popularity: the songs of Kismetbecame a rage and Amirbai became famous. She was initially known as a singing star, but at the decline of her career she became a playback singer. She reached her career peak by 1947. Amirbai also composed music for Wahab Picturesf film Shehnaaz (1948).
Song from Shehnaaz (1948)
Shehnaaz (1948)
Song from Kismet (1943)
Anil Biswas On the advise of his mentor,Hiren Bose, Anil Biswas came to Bombay in 1934. He worked in Eastern Film Company, Sagar film company National Studios and Bombay Talkies during 1942 to 1946, after which he became a Freelancer.He made his debut as a music director with "Dharam ki Devi" (1935). He reached the height of his career with the success of "Kismet" (1943). This film broke all records and ran in the theatres longer than any film in history. (This record remained intact until roughly 1978 when "Sholay" surpassed it.) Kismet was not his only success; other hits as well such as "Jwar Bhatta" (1944) and "Milan" (1946). Here ia rare and unique song,Anil biswas singing for another Music composer
A R Qureshi A R Qureshi composed music for some 38 Hindi moves. Most of these movies were small budget movies that did not leave much impact at the box office. His best known movies were “Sabak”(1950), “Bewafa”(1951) and “Khandaan”(1955).Here is a rare song from Maa Baap 1944,A R Qureshi singing with Rajkumari
Song from Maa Baap 1944
Bappi Lahiri
Alokesh "Bappi" Lahiri (born 27 November 1952) is a music composer, music director, singer, actor, and record producer. He popularized the use of synthesizeddisco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions.Very recently he sang for Vishal Shekher in Dirty Picture
Song from Disco Dancer 1982
Song from Dirty Picture 2011
Bhupendra Hazarika
He was a lyricist, music composer, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam.He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975. Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1997), and Padmabhushan (2001), Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award(1992), India's highest award in cinema, by the Government of India .His first hindi film as Music composer was was Ek Pal released 1986.after that he gave music for Rudaali (1993),Darmiyan 1997,.Saaz 1998 ,Gaja Gamini 2000 and,Daman(2001).
Song from Ek Pal 1986
Song from Rudaali 1993
Bulo C Rani
He assisted Khemchand in the movies like Tansen,Chandni, Sukh Dukh (1942) and Shahenshah Babar (1944). He sang his first playback song "Ruth Na Pyaar Mein" under Khemchand in the film Mehmaan (1942). His first film as a composer was Caravan (1944). The same year, he sang in a film Pagli Duniya. In that film, he changed his name temporarily to Bhola. But later on he sang many songs under this name till the end of his career.
Song from Dukh Sukh(1942)
Song from Pagli Duniya. (1944)
C. Ramchandra
A a renowned music composer of the Golden Era, For his career as an occasional playback singer he used only his surname Chitalkar. Chitalkar sang some renowned and unforgettable duets with Lata such as Kitna haseen hai mausam in film Azad or Shola Jo bhadke in Albela.The highly popular patriotic song "Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo", which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar and penned by poet Pradeep, was a composition of Ramachandra.
He gave music for more than 100 films His biggest success as a music composer was the 1953 movie Anarkali and Albela 1951.The famous song Ena Meena Dika from ASHA was his composition.
