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Trivia time #36

Who can tell me the singer, music director and film name/year for this song?

And also: all my fingers, toes and eyes are crossed for good luck at the Oscars tonight, especially for AR Rahman!

The answer is, as the Bollywood Fan (well, a friend of his) and bollyviewer knew: Raj Kapoor singing in the 1947 film Dil Ki Rani, music director was SD Burman composing music for what I believe was his fourth Hindi film.

I thought this evening that it would be nice to visit Hindi film music as it was 62 years ago, and may music forever be a part of Indian films!

Edited to add as the evening goes by:

  • Simon Beaufoy wins for Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Anthony Dod Mantle for Best Cinematography
  • Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty (yay Banno’s batchmate!!!!—who also gave a very sweet acceptance speech) for Best Sound Mixing
  • Chris Dickens for Best Film Editing (richly richly deserved, IMO)
  • AR Rahman for Best Score! yeah baby! and he said: “Mere paas Maa hai” at the beginning of his speech (how I love him)
  • AR Rahman and Gulzar for Best Song “Jai Ho”…Memsaab khush hua (may I add that both of his speeches were short and sweet, just like he is)…
  • Danny Boyle for Best Director!!!
  • BEST PICTURE!!!!!!!

I’m going to bed now, but I’m very very very proud and happy. Jai ho!

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Posted on February 22, 2009 at 5:28 pm in Hindi film history, Hindi movies, Trivia time   |  RSS feed You can skip to the end and leave a  reply.

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19 Comments to “Trivia time #36”

    
  1. theBollywoodFan
    February 22, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Okay, I must admit I cheated, but I’m at an Oscar watch party, and one of the experts on oldies is certain it’s Raj Kapoor singing in Dil Ki Rani (1947). He seems slightly less certain that the music is by S. D. Burman.

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  2. bollyviewer
    February 22, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    I see theBollywoodFan beat me to it! The year is 1947, lyricist is Y. N. Joshi, and the music director is S. D. Burman (credited as Kumar Sachindra Deo Varman). The cast doesnt have any singers credited so I am assuming that means all actors were singing for themselves – which means RK was singing for himself and Madhubala for herself.

    I hope you mean to write about the movie. I got it for Madhubala and ten minutes into the film, RK is already getting on my nerves (inspite of his great singing)! But I’d still want to know all about it.

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  3. memsaab
    February 22, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    tBF: You are in good company indeed!!!! And SD Burman is absolutely correct :)

    bollyviewer: I am not surprised that you have so much detail to contribute! Madhubala didn’t sing for herself though…Geeta Dutt sang for her in probably one of her first movies. I was surprised to know that RK sang in several films!

    AKNYC: She looks gorgeous, and I love that the kids are all pestering the big stars for their autographs (and getting them!)…

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  4. Another Kiran in NYC
    February 22, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Im watching Im watching… Frieda is wearing this really gorgeous dress. I want to be skinny and wear that dress.

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  5. Another Kiran in NYC
    February 22, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    Now I want to be skinny and wear Anne Hathaway’s dress…. oh the choices!

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  6. memsaab
    February 22, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    I like my mac ‘n cheese, so I will go with an Omar The Tent-Maker original. It’s all about the JEWELRY, anyway, which never ever doesn’t fit!

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  8. memsaab
    February 22, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Okay Banno, I want to meet him and see his Oscar when I come to Bombay next time! :))))

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  9. bawa
    February 23, 2009 at 5:10 am

    oooh am so happy for ARR…couldn’t watch them live at the end, as it was 2 am in the morning and we had been hiking all day so….

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  10. Eliza Bennet
    February 23, 2009 at 6:52 am

    Congrats to everyone and I felt really the most happy for A R Rahman :)

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  11. harvey
    February 23, 2009 at 7:01 am

    wow gulzar won an oscar!
    hurrah!

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  12. memsaab
    February 23, 2009 at 8:58 am

    It was great to see them all up there. The kids were just so adorable, pestering everyone for autographs. I hope they had a great time. ARR and Resul gave such lovely acceptance speeches too.

    And who knew Raj Kapoor could sing? Am I the last to find out as usual?? :-)

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  13. Anarchvist
    February 23, 2009 at 11:45 am

    The book on Nargis I’m reading claims that people thought RK was going to become a music director when he first started out. (And I’m sure a celebrity bio is an impeccable source).

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  14. bollyviewer
    February 23, 2009 at 1:55 pm

    I’d heard RK’s singing in his stage appearances but had no idea he’d actually sung in movies, too! Any idea who’s singing for Madhubala in this movie?

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  15. bawa
    February 24, 2009 at 4:22 am

    did you notice his nod to masala in the acceptance speech…”mere paas ma hai” :))

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  16. Hildebrand
    February 25, 2009 at 4:41 am

    That song is available as a duet with Geeta Roy(later Dutt) as well!

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