Highest Number of Songs in a Hindi Movie
Loony Tunes
about 17 songs.
Do we have similar examples in Hindi Cinema, that boast of 15+ songs. Can
somebody post the list please?
cheers
lt
Sunish Sultania
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Sreenivas Paruchuri
Coming to Telugu, how do you count the songs? Do you take the verses
also in to consideration? If yes, bhaktapOtana (1942) has more number
of 'songs'. Then, there is #Srii kRshNa raayabaaram# from 1960 with 83
verses and songs. Or take both versions of "tyaagayya" (1946, 1980) with
umpteen number of tyaagayya's kiirtana-s. You can't simply count the no.
of 'songs' in Telugu and Kannada films the way you do in Hindi. I can
count quite a few films where just the 'music track' runs over 60
minutes.
Regards,
Sreenivas
Surjit Singh
Sreenivas Paruchuri wrote:
> "indrasabha" (Hindi) from early 1930s has 71 songs.
>
> Coming to Telugu, how do you count the songs? Do you take the verses
> also in to consideration? If yes, bhaktapOtana (1942) has more number
> of 'songs'. Then, there is #Srii kRshNa raayabaaram# from 1960 with 83
> verses and songs. Or take both versions of "tyaagayya" (1946, 1980) with
> umpteen number of tyaagayya's kiirtana-s. You can't simply count the no.
> of 'songs' in Telugu and Kannada films the way you do in Hindi. I can
> count quite a few films where just the 'music track' runs over 60
> minutes.
Heer Ranjha (1970) had dialogs spoken in verse. Are those counted as songs?
>
> Regards,
> Sreenivas
>
> Loony Tunes wrote:
>
>>Bhakta Potana, an old Telugu movie had 19 songs while Vipranarayana had
>>about 17 songs.
>>
>>Do we have similar examples in Hindi Cinema, that boast of 15+ songs. Can
>>somebody post the list please?
--
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http://hindi-movies-songs.com/index.html
ian
A Hindin film in 30s had 72 songs
sre...@gmx.de
> Sreenivas Paruchuri wrote:
> > Coming to Telugu, how do you count the songs? Do you take the
verses
> > also in to consideration? If yes, bhaktapOtana (1942) has more
number
...
> Heer Ranjha (1970) had dialogs spoken in verse. Are those counted as
songs?
I am tempted to give you a long reply, but am not sure if its really
worth it on this forum.
Let me start with a quote from Roberto Calasso's book, "Literature and
the
gods,", who refers to a conversation between Mallarmé and Jules Huret:
--------------
Verse occurs whenever there is rhythm in language, which is to say
everywhere but on posters and the advertising page of the newspapers.
There
are verses in the genre called prose, sometimes wonderful verses and in
every rhythm. But to tell the truth, prose doesn't exist: there is the
alphabet and then there is verse, which may be more or less tight, more
or
less diffuse. Every time there is a strain toward style, there is
versification."
-----------------
But, seriously, if you have some basic knowledge about Telugu film, or
if you have ever seen a mythological/(pseudo)historical/folkrish film
in Telugu, then you 'd know what I mean by verses in films. To put it
shortly, on stage and in films you find a great usage of poetry, both
from traditional (in prosodic metres) and modern literature, which is
set to music my the drama/film composer and rendered by the (playback)
artist. These verses are listed as 'songs' in respective film/drama
song books and also released on discs.
Hope that clarifies! If your intention is to define the _thin_ line
between "Prose" and "Poetry", then better we take the discussion off
this list.
Warm Regards,
Sreenivas
Niranjan R. Pedanekar
That was 'Indra-sabhaa' (1932) starring Master Nissar and Kajjan,
which had 71 songs!!!
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Surjit Singh wrote:
> Sreenivas Paruchuri wrote:
> > Coming to Telugu, how do you count the songs? Do you take the
verses
> > also in to consideration? If yes, bhaktapOtana (1942) has more
number
...
Yes Sreenivas, I am excluding all (probably most of) the "padhyaalu". BTW
are you related to the "Parachuri Brothers". :-)
> Heer Ranjha (1970) had dialogs spoken in verse. Are those counted as
songs?
Amol Palekar's "thoda sa ruumaanii ho jaaye.n", had versified dialogues. I
am discounting all that.
lt
Surjit Singh
sre...@gmx.de wrote:
OK. Very little music was used in dialogs. So that rules out Heer Ranjha
and others like it. Looks like Indrasabha is still the answer with 71.
>
> Hope that clarifies! If your intention is to define the _thin_ line
> between "Prose" and "Poetry", then better we take the discussion off
> this list.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Sreenivas
>
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Khalid R. Siddiqui
prove it.
Khalid
Surjit Singh
The book lists 69 and then says there were possibly 2 more.
>
> Khalid
>
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Loony Tunes
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> The book lists 69 and then says there were possibly 2 more.
Assuming a 3 hr movie and the average time for a song to be 2 minutes, there
would have been about 40 minutes of dialogues. This movie was as good as a
Gita Paath or Ramcharitmanas Recitation. Has anybody on this NG seen this?
Could you post more details of this movie from Hamraz's book?
lt
Surjit Singh
Jan
> Coming to Telugu, how do you count the songs? Do you take the verses
> also in to consideration? If yes, bhaktapOtana (1942) has more number
> of 'songs'. Then, there is #Srii kRshNa raayabaaram# from 1960 with 83
> verses and songs. Or take both versions of "tyaagayya" (1946, 1980) with
> umpteen number of tyaagayya's kiirtana-s. You can't simply count the no.
most of those keertanas in both tyaagayya's were sung for only 1 or 2
lines, but not in their entirety. So, they cannot be counted as
"complete numbers".