Details

Published: 10 July 2018

Last Updated: 10 July 2018

Everybody knows taht Kismet (1943) ran at Roxy Calcutta during its first run for 187 weeks. It is not too well-known but it ran fabulously in many other cities. Here is a report from filmindia of November 1945, when it was in the 112th week at Calcutta.

Now you know!

Rafi 58

Details

Published: 22 September 2017

Last Updated: 22 September 2017

Whenever I read about Indian Classical music or its history, from the earliest books till date, they always mention that the Indian music has melody whereas the western music has harmony. This is very surprising to me because even some of the African music has harmony and we missed it. I have been trying to find examples of it in Indian classical music, but I don't know enough. Here is the earliest example from Hindi film music (based on what they say in books, all I hear is two different tunes overlapping in many places.)

 duniya rang rangili baba

Now you know!

Listen to Hum Diwane (1965) 

Details

Published: 05 September 2017

Last Updated: 09 September 2017

Many songs have explicit human emotion in them, for example, crying. Song dekho dekho sakhiyan kaisee from Amrit Manthan is the first song involving crying that I have heard.

Amrit Manthan Songs

Now you know!

 Narsingh Collection 680