Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
Most songs discussed in this blog are movie songs which were included in the movie when that movie was released. But there are some cases in which songs, even though they were recorded as part of the movie ended up getting excluded from the movie for one reason or the other. In some cases, the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
I just realised two facts. One fact is that the hair of leading ladies in Hindi movies play an important part in Hindi movies, especially in songs. when the Hero needs to sing a song in praise of her, what are the things about her that he can mention? He will sing about her face- [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
“Ek Dil Sau Afsaane” (1963) is a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman. To my mind, the two were pair together in very few movies. The only other movie with the two that I can recall is Teesri Kasam(1966).
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is an obscure movie, but this movie has some awesome songs in it, as I have discovered while discussing the songs from this movie. I have so far discussed two songs from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
I have discussed one song from “Grihasthhi” (1948) in the past. From the comments by our experts, I came to know that this movie had actors like Masood,Sulochana Chatterji,Pran,Sharada,Shyama,Kuldeep kaur,Faizi,Rajni,Yakub, Lalita Pawar,Mirza Musharraf etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
“Shakuntala” (1943) is a movie where Jayshree had played the title role. She sang her own songs in this movie. I have already discussed one such song from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: June 25, 2011
Most Hindi movie songs have been written by lyricists who were around at the time when these songs were composed. But there are some cases where the lyricists lived in an earlier era and they were dead and buried/cremated long before their creations were used in Hindi movie songs. For instance, Hindi movies have used [...]
Posted by: Atul on: June 24, 2011
“Sunahre Qadam” (1966) is an obscure movie that had Rehman, Shashikala, Sabita Chatterji, Randhir, Agha etc in it. This Saraswati Kala Mandir movie was directed by Satish Nigam.
Posted by: Atul on: June 24, 2011
I have discussed almost all the songs of “Chhaliyaa” (1959). I should rightfully feel like that seeing that I have already discussed as many as six songs from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: June 24, 2011
Obscure movies can sometimes (read often) throw up some pleasant surprises in the form of songs that one did not know existed ! I keep discovering many forgotten gems almost on a daily basis.
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