MD cameos
George Thomas
Just caught "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" a couple of days ago, and caught
music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
Lalit appears on screen as the bass guitarist for the band from Xavier's
College. Jatin (who incidentally also sings the song 'Humse Hai Sara
Jahaan') appears as the singer for the same college.
I recall few other MD cameos, and just one where they cameo for lines that
they sang/uttered: R D Burman in Ajanabee (he pipes in during 'Hum Dono Do
Premi' asking the two lovers where they are headed, and even makes a brief
appearance on-screen for this)
are there other instances out there (am sure there are)?
Also: I thought I saw Farha Khan (choreographer) on screen, but I could be
mistaken. Did anyone else see this?
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> Hey everyone,
> Just caught "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" a couple of days ago, and caught
> music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
> Lalit appears on screen as the bass guitarist for the band from Xavier's
> College. Jatin (who incidentally also sings the song 'Humse Hai Sara
> Jahaan') appears as the singer for the same college.
> I recall few other MD cameos, and just one where they cameo for lines that
> they sang/uttered: R D Burman in Ajanabee (he pipes in during 'Hum Dono Do
> Premi' asking the two lovers where they are headed, and even makes a brief
> appearance on-screen for this)
> are there other instances out there (am sure there are)?
RDB also acted in Bhoot Bangla.
Laxmikant of LP fame in Teri Kasam. (MD was RDB).
Bappi Lahiri as himself in Kalakaar (MD Kalyaji-Anandji).
Anu Malik in Baazigar. (he introduces Vinod Rathod before the
horrible song "bhulaya bhee nahi jata").
RK-
SKalra902
Jaikishan, as the drunkard in Shree 420, appears in the scene when Raj Kapoor
goes to make the delivery from the laundry.
Jaikishan again, on the piano, in Begunaah, where the song "Ai pyaase dil
bezubaa.n..." was picturized on him.
R.D. Burman also acted in Pyar Ka Mausam.
Madan Mohan acted as Nalini Jaywant's brother in Munimji (though he was not the
MD of that film).
Happy listenings.
Satish Kalra
naniwadekar
> they sang/uttered:
>
both sung by and filmed on Khemchand Prakash. But the MD for
that film was Raichand Boral. If at all KcP also composed the song,
there is no documentary proof / or even whispers that he did so.
Govindrao Tembe has acted, sung and MDed for a few 1930s films.
He may also have written songs, story, dialogues for some films.
I forget the exact details. However the word 'cameo' may be wrong
in his context. OTOH, his filmi association can itself be viewed as
a cameo by this multi-faceted great man.
Two songs were filmed on a very young (17 yrs) Ramchandra Narhar
Chitalkar in Naagaanand - 1935. MD - Vamanrao Sadolikar (Shruti's
father). It should be a safe bet that CR sang the songs himself. He had
started learning music in Nagpur under Shankarrao Sapre before he
joined the film world. Vasantrao Deshpande was his fellow student.
The MD in him hadn't yet stirred in 1935. Prakash Joshi had showed a video
interview of CR. CR, looking bloody handsome in a funky red t-shirt,
said that he had only one filmi ambition when young : to become a
big film star. He went on to sing 'aanaa merii jaan suNDe ke sunday'.
No records were released for 'Naagaanand'. Are the songs available?
- dn
Ashok
>Two songs were filmed on a very young (17 yrs) Ramchandra Narhar
>Chitalkar in Naagaanand - 1935. MD - Vamanrao Sadolikar (Shruti's
>father). It should be a safe bet that CR sang the songs himself. He had
>started learning music in Nagpur under Shankarrao Sapre before he
>joined the film world. Vasantrao Deshpande was his fellow student.
>The MD in him hadn't yet stirred in 1935. Prakash Joshi had showed a video
>interview of CR. CR, looking bloody handsome in a funky red t-shirt,
>said that he had only one filmi ambition when young : to become a
>big film star. He went on to sing 'aanaa merii jaan suNDe ke sunday'.
>No records were released for 'Naagaanand'. Are the songs available?
>
>- dn
An even earlier childhood dream of C. Ramchandra was to become a
CID officer. As a wanna-be actor he drove Sohrab Modi to the verge
of pulling out his own hair. Modi was one of the persons who guided
CR toward his metier.
In the 60s, when his metier as an MD was effectively put to pasture,
CR tried to keep busy by producing a film. He produced, scored, and
starred and sang in 'Dhananjaya', censored as a Marathi film, but
one that mixed Marathi and Hindi in both dialogues and songs. Looks
like he did that with the intention of fulfilling both his childhood
dreams, because my Marathi friends tell me that title role of the
film is that of a detective, who featured in a long series of
extremely popular detective novels; so much so that male babies born
in Maharashtra in a specific period tended to be given that name,
and not necessarility because it is one of the names of the hero of
Mahabharata.
Ashok
naniwadekar
Ashok <ADhar...@WorldBank.Org> wrote -
>
> An even earlier childhood dream of C. Ramchandra was to become a
> CID officer. As a wanna-be actor he drove Sohrab Modi to the verge
> of pulling out his own hair. Modi was one of the persons who guided
> CR toward his metier.
>
> In the 60s, when his metier as an MD was effectively put to pasture,
> CR tried to keep busy by producing a film.
>
of presentations. I don't know how popular that series was and
how long it lasted. Pramilabai Datar used to do his Lata songs.
The actress-singer Faiyyaz (who acted in the famous sangeet-natak
'kaTyaar kaaLajaat ghusalii') also played her part.
Ga Di Madgulkar's Geet Ramayan, set to tune by Sudhir Phadke
(56 songs, check www.gadima.com), has passed into folklore.
It is almost completely unknown that some songs in Madgulkar's
Geet Gopal were set to tune by C Ramchandra. No idea who has
sung the songs and whether there was a commercial release. I think
Alurkar Music Store makes a copy on request. Alurkar certainly
did oblige me with a copy of Geet Gopal. I have never got around
to hearing it, though. It features a beautiful song about a young
Krishna doing kaaliyaa-mardan. The words, among my earliest
memories, are beautiful; I haven't heard the song.
It begins with the words :
sarp-phaNii-var krishna naachalaa yamunechyaa dohii
- dn
surjit singh
S. N. Tripathy, Kishor Kumar, Mukesh, Amirbai Karnataki, R. C. Pal,
Pankaj Mallik, Saigal, Anup Jalota, G. M. Durrani, K. C. De, Punit
Issar, Shankar Shambhu, Snehal Bhatkar, Jaddan Bai etc.
I am sure there are more. All I did was compare very crudely may
master list of MDs with the master list of Actors.
Surjit Singh, a diehard movie fan(atic), period.
>
> Happy listenings.
>
> Satish Kalra
vibhendu
Two appearances by MD's before they became MD's:
Aadesh Srivastava playing violin for the waltzing couple in 'Dhadkan
Zara ruk gayi hai' in Nana Patekar's directorial debut 'Prahaar' .
(MDs LP deliver one of their better scores of their downhill
years.Manna Dey makes an appearance after years in 'Hamaari hi muththi
me akaash saara' and Shobha Gurtu sings the thumri 'Yaad piya ki')
Uttam Singh as arranger in a recording scene from an obscure late 70
's film 'Taxi Taxi'. Amol Palekar plays an educated cabby who takes to
the profession because he cannot get a job for himself.Once ferries an
aspiring playback singer and advises her to go back to home. Meet her
a few months later, still struggling and now infected with TB. Takes
her to a music director friend of his played by Jalal Agha.
To oblige his friend , JA takes her to the chorus recording booth and
asks her just to stand there and not to sing. Uttam Singh is
conducting the orchestra while Asha Bhosle playing herself is the
lead singer. Two antaras down, our aspiring singer breaks into her own
song stunning everybody else.
Vibhendu
Nita
> Hey everyone,
> Just caught "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" a couple of days ago, and caught
> music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
Interesting thread! What about songs picturized on lyricists? Probably
fewer instances of those!
One comes to mind - Gulshan Bawra isn Zanjeer's "diivaane hai
diivaano.n ko na ghar chaahiye, mohabbat bharii ik nazar chaahiye"
along with Padma Khanna as street performers while Jaya and Amitabh
look on.
Another instance - Gulzar in Grihapravesh in the song "auro.n
(Gairo.n?) ke gharo.n me.n rahataa huu.N, kab apanaa ko_ii ghar hogaa"
Any other?
Nita
naniwadekar
Nita <nawat...@hotmail.com> wrote -
>
> Interesting thread! What about songs picturized on lyricists? Probably
> fewer instances of those!
>
this category as well. Another possibility is being discussed currently
in a diff thread, Kedar Sharma in 'Neki aur Badi'.
Pu La Deshpande had directed, MDed, acted in, written script for,
sung for and even written verse for Marathi films in early 1950s.
Off-hand I can recall him writing verse only for the film 'doodh-bhaat'.
I have no idea whether he acted in that film. Ga Di Madgulkar has
written songs for many Marathi films and also done cameo roles in
quite a few of those films. But I don't know whether any of his songs
has been filmed on him.
- dn
ajit
> Ga Di Madgulkar's Geet Ramayan, set to tune by Sudhir Phadke
> (56 songs, check www.gadima.com), has passed into folklore.
> It is almost completely unknown that some songs in Madgulkar's
> Geet Gopal were set to tune by C Ramchandra.
Even Yashwant Deo has composed tunes for Geet Gopal.They are being
shown on ALPHA TV MARATHI in a prog. called "geet gopal". I dont think
the tunes by YD are really that good. One would expect much better
stuff from a great composer like YD.
vibhendu
IIRC. My father dragged us to see this totally uninteresting film cos
he was some sort of Neeraj fan (of his non filmoutput , that is).
Kaifi Azmi in Saeed Mirza 's 'Naseem' played the protagonist, so
wouldnot count as cameo
Also, if you count occasional lyrical forays of Manoj Kumar and other
samll type actors like Pankaj Dhir,Mandira Bedi ,Sheetal and Ila Arun
(she penned the rajasthani song in 'Sangeet' and some other songs for
an Amit Khanna movie, she has also MDed Govind Nihalani 's 'Rukmavati
ki Haveli).
Sukhwinder Singh and Remo Fernandes, in recent times have MDed movies
and done cameo appearances in their songs.
Vibhendu
Pradeep Dubey
? George Thomas ?geo...@cc.gatech.edu? wrote in message news:?Pine.LNX.4.44.020604...@laureloak.cc.gatech.edu?...
? ? Hey everyone,
? ? Just caught ?Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar? a couple of days ago, and caught
? ? music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
?
? Interesting thread! What about songs picturized on lyricists? Probably
? fewer instances of those!
?
? One comes to mind - Gulshan Bawra isn Zanjeer's ?diivaane hai
? diivaano.n ko na ghar chaahiye, mohabbat bharii ik nazar chaahiye?
? along with Padma Khanna as street performers while Jaya and Amitabh
? look on.
?
? Another instance - Gulzar in Grihapravesh in the song ?auro.n
? (Gairo.n?) ke gharo.n me.n rahataa huu.N, kab apanaa ko_ii ghar hogaa?
?
A favorite of mine. And since it is not in ISB, here it is:
Singer: Bhupinder
Film: Grih Pravesh
Lyrics: God
MD: Kanu Roy
(sorry not ITRANSed).
logo.n ke ghar mei.n rahata hoo.n, kab apna koi ghar hogaa
diivaaro.n ki chintaa rahtii hai, diiwaar mei.n kab koi dar hogaa
sabzii mandii baap ka ghar hai, pulbangash pe maamaa kaa
shaamnagar mei.n chaachaa ka ghar, chauk pe apnii shyaama kaa
maike aur sasuraal ke aage, aur bhi koi ghar hoga
logo.n ...
ichchhao.n ke bheege chaabuk, chupake chupake sahtaa hoo.n
dooje ke ghar yoo.n lagataa hai, moze pahane rahtaa hoo.n
nange paao.n aa.ngan mei.n kab baithoo.nga kab ghar hogaa
logo.n ...
Pradeep
? Any other?
?
? Nita
Nitin Sharma
hehehe.. is this real song or you just made it up??
-nitin
Surajit A. Bose
Nitin Sharma <ni...@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
> hehehe.. is this real song or you just made it up??
>
> -nitin
It's a real song. There's even a tandem version by Yesudas! I think it
has the same lyrics, but I'm not sure.
-s
Pradeep Dubey
> In article <2002061115460...@barb.cs.washington.edu>,
> Nitin Sharma <ni...@cs.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> > hehehe.. is this real song or you just made it up??
> >
> > -nitin
Nitin:
It's not only real but couldn't be anything but real for many many of
us.
I can make things up but would never be so real, afterall
insaan insaan hote hai.n aur bhagwaan bhagwaan :-)
Surajit:
Thanks for clarifying it ... so there are two 'identical' versions, it
seems.
Someone who has seen the moview might through some light on this, as
to what led to such a repeat. How many such male tandem twin songs are
there? Perhaps very very few. I cannot remember any now.
BTW while writing the lyrics, I did sense this confusion, as I seemed
to have heard a Yesudas version too, but then Bhupendra won in my
mind.
Pradeep
Surma Bhopali
> IIRC,Neeraj appeared in one of Manoj Kumar 's films, Pehchan again
> IIRC. My father dragged us to see this totally uninteresting film cos
> he was some sort of Neeraj fan (of his non filmoutput , that is).
> Kaifi Azmi in Saeed Mirza 's 'Naseem' played the protagonist, so
> wouldnot count as cameo
> Also, if you count occasional lyrical forays of Manoj Kumar and other
You mean the Manoj Kumar of "Painter baabu I love you, naa mai.n
buDDhaa, naa mai.n buDDhii" fame? :)
Ashok
>
>
>hehehe.. is this real song or you just made it up??
>
>-nitin
Such things are not called doggerel for nothing!
>On 11 Jun 2002, Pradeep Dubey wrote:
>>
>> A favorite of mine. And since it is not in ISB, here it is:
>> Singer: Bhupinder
>> Film: Grih Pravesh
>> Lyrics: Dog
>> MD: Kanu Roy
>>
>> (sorry not ITRANSed).
>>
>> logo.n ke ghar mei.n rahata hoo.n, kab apna koi ghar hogaa
>> diivaaro.n ki chintaa rahtii hai, diiwaar mei.n kab koi dar hogaa
>>
>> sabzii mandii baap ka ghar hai, pulbangash pe maamaa kaa
>> shaamnagar mei.n chaachaa ka ghar, chauk pe apnii shyaama kaa
>> maike aur sasuraal ke aage, aur bhi koi ghar hoga
>> logo.n ...
>>
>> ichchhao.n ke bheege chaabuk, chupake chupake sahtaa hoo.n
>> dooje ke ghar yoo.n lagataa hai, moze pahane rahtaa hoo.n
>> nange paao.n aa.ngan mei.n kab baithoo.nga kab ghar hogaa
>>
>> logo.n ...
>>
>
Ashok
SKalra902
...snipped...
>
>Pu La Deshpande had directed, MDed, acted in, written script for,
>sung for and even written verse for Marathi films in early 1950s.
>Off-hand I can recall him writing verse only for the film 'doodh-bhaat'.
>I have no idea whether he acted in that film. Ga Di Madgulkar has
>written songs for many Marathi films and also done cameo roles in
>quite a few of those films. But I don't know whether any of his songs
>has been filmed on him.
>
>- dn
Why are we forgetting the master of them all - Kishore Kumar! He fits into all
the categories, doesn't he!
Another name that comes to mind is Ajit Singh.
Happy listenings.
Satish Kalra
naniwadekar
SKalra902 <skal...@aol.com> wrote -
> >
> >Pu La Deshpande had directed, MDed, acted in, written script for,
> >sung for and even written verse for Marathi films in early 1950s.
> >Off-hand I can recall him writing verse only for the film 'doodh-bhaat'.
> >I have no idea whether he acted in that film. Ga Di Madgulkar has
> >written songs for many Marathi films and also done cameo roles in
> >quite a few of those films. But I don't know whether any of his songs
> >has been filmed on him.
> >
> >- dn
>
> Why are we forgetting the master of them all - Kishore Kumar! He fits
into all
> the categories, doesn't he!
>
Kishore Kumar. In fact, it was in a Kishore thread last year that I had
written how Govindrao Tembe and Pu La Deshpande had tried
their hand at many categories. Bhanumathi, too, had got a mention
in that thread for her multi-faceted contribution.
- dn
SKalra902
>
>Two appearances by MD's before they became MD's:
>Aadesh Srivastava playing violin for the waltzing couple in 'Dhadkan
>Zara ruk gayi hai' in Nana Patekar's directorial debut 'Prahaar' .
Aadesh Srivastava composed music for a hitherto unreleased film
"Jaan-e-Tamanna". One of the songs, the chorus "Tuu chaand hai puunam kaa..."
led by Udit Narayan and Ranjana Joglekar was on the pop charts in those days.
The CD was released in late 1994 or very early 1995, long before Prahaar, I
would say.
Happy listenings.
Satish Kalra
vibhendu
Prahaar appeared in 1992/1993 or perhaps even 1991.Jaane-Tamanna was a
BMB productions ( K C Bokadia)
film and did have a theatrical release in India.Aadesh' wife Vijayeta
also contributed to the soundtrack .She sang for brothers Jatin Lalit
in Jo jeeta 'Jawaan ho yaaron'and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Kyon na hum
milke pyaar karein).
Sister Sulakshana 's last appearance as singer was in Khamoshi- A
Musical (Saagar Kinare hain do dil...).
An extremely talented singer , but criminally neglected by the
industry.
Vijayeta, in a recent TV interview sounded very bitter about her
brothers.She has recently recorded a song under her husband's baton
for Dev Anand's forthcoming film.
JL, on the other hand claim that Sulakshana's voice is no longer what
it used to be.
Asha Bhosle perhaps was making a dig at the Pandit sisters in a recent
interview when she claimed that if you cannot deliver the goods, even
your brother would not come to your rescue in the extremely
competetive field of playback singing.
Vibhendu
> Satish Kalra
Ket...@att.net
vibh...@hotmail.com says...
>Asha Bhosle perhaps was making a dig at the Pandit sisters in a recent
>interview when she claimed that if you cannot deliver the goods, even
>your brother would not come to your rescue in the extremely
>competetive field of playback singing.
Could as well be a dig at her own "didi" too. :)
Ketan
Pankaj Vyas
<Ket...@att.net> wrote in message news:aeadn...@drn.newsguy.com...
Could it be that she was complaining about Hridaynath not giving her much to
sing in Hindi movies?
Pankaj
>
Afzal A. Khan
Nita wrote:
>
> George Thomas <geo...@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.44.020604...@laureloak.cc.gatech.edu>...
> > Hey everyone,
> > Just caught "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" a couple of days ago, and caught
> > music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
>
> Interesting thread! What about songs picturized on lyricists? Probably
> fewer instances of those!
>
> One comes to mind - Gulshan Bawra isn Zanjeer's "diivaane hai
> diivaano.n ko na ghar chaahiye, mohabbat bharii ik nazar chaahiye"
> along with Padma Khanna as street performers while Jaya and Amitabh
> look on.
> Nita
IIRC, it wasn't Padma Khanna. Probably, Sanjana.
Afzal
ajit
> <Ket...@att.net> wrote in message news:aeadn...@drn.newsguy.com...
> > In article <1100f078.02061...@posting.google.com>,
> > vibh...@hotmail.com says...
> >
> > >Asha Bhosle perhaps was making a dig at the Pandit sisters in a recent
> > >interview when she claimed that if you cannot deliver the goods, even
> > >your brother would not come to your rescue in the extremely
> > >competetive field of playback singing.
> >
> > Could as well be a dig at her own "didi" too. :)
> >
> > Ketan
>
> Could it be that she was complaining about Hridaynath not giving her much to
> sing in Hindi movies?
>
Ketan and Pankaj,
I don't think so she was referring to Hridaynath. Look at the earlier
clause - "IF YOU CANNOT DELIVER THE GOODS". She definitely did not
mean to say "I couldn't deliver the goods and thats why Hridaynath
didn't take me" :-)
It could be a dig at Sulakshana Pandit though!
BTW was this the same interview shown recently on START PLUS? I think
this was one of the statements she made when she was asked about the
Mangeshkar,Bhosle monopoly.
Thanks,
Ajit
> Pankaj
>
>
>
>
>
> >
vibhendu
Yes, it was her interview with Vir Sanghvi aired on Star Plus
recently.
I think she meant Sulakshana only.
She said something like 'Aur log aaye.....lekin...........aapka saga
bhai bhi aapko chance nahin dega , agar aap achcha nahin gaate.'
vibhendu
Ket...@att.net
> Yes, it was her interview with Vir Sanghvi aired on Star Plus
>recently.
>I think she meant Sulakshana only.
>She said something like 'Aur log aaye.....lekin...........aapka saga
>bhai bhi aapko chance nahin dega , agar aap achcha nahin gaate.'
In which case Asha is a fat-head who should know better. No less a person than
Kishore Kumar thought her good enough to give her a break in "Beqarare dil tu
gaayeja" much before he ever considered using Lata for even one of his own
compositions. Asha's spin on the allegations of the LM-AB monopoly are
half-assed and in poor taste.
And if J-L have Lata singing for them in all those Yash--Chopra/Johar movies,
it's more because those 2 producers can't get over their "love is tone-deaf"
admiration for a Lata who is well past her prime.
Ketan
>vibhendu
naniwadekar
"vibhendu" <vibh...@hotmail.com> wrote -
>
> Asha Bhosle perhaps was making a dig at the Pandit sisters in a recent
> interview when she claimed that if you cannot deliver the goods, even
> your brother would not come to your rescue in the extremely
> competetive field of playback singing.
>
ignore some obvious possibilities.
Just before the interview, Usha refused to make tea for Asha. That
meant 10 less minutes for Asha's make-up. Asha proceeded to
spoil the tea which soured her mood further, did the interview
in a huff, remembered the Mangeshkar tradition of making snide
remarks about one's younger sister, and when she got her chance,
aimed some barbs ostensibly at Sulakshana Pandit which were
meant to sting Usha and confuse RMIMers.
- dn
Vijay Kumar K
> >"George Thomas" <geo...@cc.gatech.edu> wrote :-
> >
> >> Hey everyone,
> >> Just caught "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar" a couple of days ago, and caught
> >> music directors Jatin and Lalit in their little cameos.
> >> College. Jatin (who incidentally also sings the song 'Humse Hai Sara
> >> Jahaan') appears as the singer for the same college.
> >> I recall few other MD cameos, and just one where they cameo for lines that
> >> they sang/uttered: R D Burman in Ajanabee (he pipes in during 'Hum Dono Do
> >> Premi' asking the two lovers where they are headed, and even makes a brief
> >> appearance on-screen for this)
> >> are there other instances out there (am sure there are)?
> >
> >RDB also acted in Bhoot Bangla.
> >
> >Laxmikant of LP fame in Teri Kasam. (MD was RDB).
> >
> >Bappi Lahiri as himself in Kalakaar (MD Kalyaji-Anandji).
> >
> >Anu Malik in Baazigar. (he introduces Vinod Rathod before the
> >horrible song "bhulaya bhee nahi jata").
> >
> >RK-
>
> Jaikishan, as the drunkard in Shree 420, appears in the scene when Raj Kapoor
> goes to make the delivery from the laundry.
>
Jaikishan in the mu.D mu.D ke na dekh sequence later? Shankar is not credited.
Vijay