Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
This post is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog A couple of days back I got to see the movie Naughty Boy (1962). It is a comedy starring Kishore Kumar and Kalpana (often remembered as the heroine singing “main chali main chali” [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular visitor of this blog “Mirza Ghalib” (1954) is a movie based on the life of Mirza Ghalib, one of the foremost shayars of Urdu language who was long dead and gone by the time this movie [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
“Goonj” (1952) is a forgotten movie about which little details are available now. This movie had Suraiyya and Suresh in it.
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog “Adaa” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie that had Shekhar, Rehana, Gope, Madan Puri etc in it. I had discussed two songs from this movie in the past. Sudhir recently came [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
Movies of 1930s and 1940s are obviously movies far too old for anyone of us. Hardly any information is available about movies and actors of that era. The generation who followed these movies are also no longer there with us. So, with passage of time, the music of that era is getting forgotten.
Posted by: Atul on: February 23, 2011
A few hours ago, I came across a lovely song from a very old movie. Here is this song, which is sung by Kanan Devi, and I guess that this song is picturised on her as well. AArzoo Lucknowi is the lyricist and music is composed by R C Boral.
Posted by: Atul on: February 22, 2011
I keep stumbling against unknown and unheard of gems almost every day. Look what I discovered just now !
Posted by: Atul on: February 22, 2011
Though Suraiyya sang majority of her songs for herself, she famously did playback singing for Mehtab during early 1940s, when Mehtab was 17-18 years of age and Suraiyya herself was barely 13-14.
Posted by: Atul on: February 21, 2011
This post is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog In many of my posts I have talked about Rafi saab. And that is because I just love his voice. It goes straight to my heart. Apparently, from all accounts, he was also [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 21, 2011
Here is a song that I had never heard before. Of course there is nothing new in that. There are so many songs that I have never heard before.
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