Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. “Lala Rukh” (1958) is a movie starring Talat Mehmood,Shyama,Tuntun, Radhika,Vikram Kapoor etc.
Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2011
Singer Mukesh, who had become a playback singer by early 1950s was trying to make it big as an actor-singer a la K L Saigal in 1950s. So much so that he began to produce his own movies in which he acted as hero and sang his own songs. But his ventures into movie making [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2011
My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2011
“Sanam” (1951) had Suraiyya, Dev Anand,Meena Kumari,K N Singh,Gope,Pratima Devi,Jillo etc in it. In addition to being a box office hit, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have already discussed five songs from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: February 28, 2011
“Afsar”(1950) is a movie that starred the hot pair of Suraiyya and Dev Anand. This movie was a box office hit and a musical hit as well.
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
The lyrics of this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. I have discussed two songs from a movie called “Aankh Michauli” (1962). It turns out that there was another movie of the same name that was released one decade later. This movie, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
“Pehchaan” (1970) is a movie starring Manoj Kumar and Babita in it. the movie itself is not remembered much now, but its songs are still popular. I have already discussed one song from this movie (Wo pari kahan se laaun ).
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog It may be unimaginable today for the present generation, but when India became independent over six decades ago, the country was industrially undeveloped and there was hardly any infrastructure to speak of. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was made on the life of the blind poet of middle ages, namely Surdas, and the title role of Surdas was played by K C Dey, who himself was blind, just like Surdas.
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