Welcome to August 2013 edition of Carnival of Blogs on Golden Era of Hindi Film Music.
It seems we have a rich fare on dances in this edition.
‘Dances on Footpath’ remembers month of August for the Independence that India earned on 15t August, 1947 by Ten Favorite Songs and/or Dances from The Year 1947.
‘Dances on Footpath’ also has Five Favorite Dances to the Voice of Rajkumari this month, mostly solos, a couple of great duets, half mujras, half street or theater performances, some on familiar visual terrain and some extremely unusual-looking… but all really good dance sequences from the 1940s or early ’50s, featuring the sweet, unmistakable voice of Rajkumari.
In Vyjayanthimala’s Devadasi Dance in Piya Milan (Choreographed by V.S. Muthuswami Pillai), Minai’s Cinema Nritya Gharana has assembled a vivid analysis and comparison of Devdasi choreography, in the dance song Aaja Kahun Kana as, different from Bharatnatyam, in Chittoor Rani Padminini dance song by leveraging the Vyjayntimala, the performer and the choreographer- the hereditary nattuvanar V.S. Muthuswami Pillai, as the common links.
A visit to not-so-regularly-updated blog, ‘A Blog Of My Favourite Vintage Bollywood Stuff’ presents us with Some of my favourite song-dance combinations of the vintage era.
Madhulika Liddle continues to come up with quite interesting themes @ ‘Dusted Off’. We have Ten of my favourite “I am -” songs this month – where the singer introduces himself/herself by name. The “comments” to this post also further enriches the theme.
Dusted Off’’s review of Love in Bombay(2013), – “or 1971, if you go by the year the film was made, not the year the film was released. Or 1974, which was when the censor certificate dates from”, but finally released, in 2013, by sons of Joy Mukherjee after his death – needs a special mention here for the 1971-period songs of Shanker Jaikishan, who had so stunningly teamed up with Joy Mukherjee in “Love in Tokyo” : Maazaa naav ahe Ganpat Rao, Na main boli na woh bola, Saiyyaan saiyyaan, and Rani Nacho
Shilpi Bose’s ‘Tarun Bose and The World of Cinema’ – Oonche Log (1965)– is an excellent, narrative of the film, particularly from the point of view of Tarun Bose’s character in the film. Incidentally, “Oonche Log” also takes me back to the days of my first year of college year at Vallabh Vidyanagar (Anand, Gujarat) in 1965-66. We used to hire cycles at ½ a rupee, and make a trip to near-by Anand for a Saturday night show to see the film released on that Friday. We had gone to see Oonche Log for “on-the-screen-histrionic-duel” between Ashok Kumar and Raaj Kumar, but came back highly impressed by the dual bonus of Tarun Bose’s performance and Chitragupt’s music in the film. Here are those songs to complete that recall: Jaag Dil-e-Deewana (Mohammad Rafi), Aaja Re Mere Pyaar Ke Raahi Raah Sanvarun Badi Der Se (Mahendra Kapoor and Lata Mangeshkar), Haayere Tere Chanchal Nainwa (Lata Mangeshkar), Kaisi Tune Rit Rachi Bhagwan (Manna Dey and Asha Bhosle).
In Coolone160’s Sadhana- an elegant and timeless actress, we have a playlist that presents the multi-faceted theatrical personality of Sadhana.
We have had opportunity to visit a couple of more blogs this month.
We pick up SAMAY O DHEERE CHALO (Rudali – Asha Bhosle – Bhupen Hazarika – Gulzar) from Mukhtar Sheikh’s My Vision of the Songs as a first sample. We can look forward to regular visits this blog.
Visit to ‘A Blog Of My Favourite Vintage Bollywood Stuff’ also benefited us by way of these gems: A lovely Mohammed Rafi – Suraiya duet from Sanam (1951) and My favourite Rafi songs.
Songs of Yore has kindly hosted the guest article – Forgotten Composers Unforgettable Melodies (8): Avinash Vyas – by yours truly, in memory of Avinash Vyas’s anniversary on 20th August.
While presenting Best songs of 1953: Wrap Up 1, AKji has commenced wrapping up the discussions on the different categories for The Best Songs of 1953 @ Songs of Yore. We would take a detailed look at the entire process of review collectively, when we will have all the articles in this series available @ SoY.
I do await your keen observations on the Hindi Film Songs of the Golden Era…….and continue the search for more varied content……till we met again next month……
The world is too small? or Is it? 
A feast of very interesting items, savouring which will make the whole of Sunday a happy experience.
It is such inspiring feed-backs that keep me going.
Thanks.
Here is alink to Avinash Vyas’s songs – http://www.lyricsbogie.com/composer/avinash-vyas
Very interesting compilation. I am already following a few of these bloggers. As a humble music fan, I have tried to list and feature the top 3 composers of the golden era – 1950s and 1960s. I have published two posts on the two top composers thus far, with the third and final one coming up soon. These posts analyse the composing styles, feature a list of top songs and also embed a player for listening to select songs. Post at rsbaab.wordpress.com
Thanks Ravi – for your visit and your kind words.
I have gone through the first two of the three posts wherein you have very lucidly put across your points of views regarding Naushad and Madan Mohan..
The third article should be quite interesting.
I would take up the these in the next edition of blog carnival. i.e. that of October ’13.
It should be a matter of great pleasure to visit your blog regularly.
I know I am several months too late but as I say better late than never. Thanks for highlighting my blog post. I just happened to stumble upon this post.
The beauty of internet space is that we are never too late.
In any case, the fact that you do make it a point to come back to these posts is itself far more courtesy and encouragement that a fellow blogger does get.
Thanks, for your encouraging reciprocation.