Posted by: Atul on: September 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. ‘baalam to pe sabar padey, moraa maikaa chhudaaye deenhon raam’ “O dear sweetheart, you have made me relinquish my mother’s home, hope you are now pleased and satisfied” More than ‘Gham kiye mushtaqil kitna naazuk [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Today’s write up is different from the normal format / content of Saigal Saab’s songs, that we are discussing on this blog. (I am in travel today, and have limited access to resources and time. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 26, 2011
We have been discussing one K L Saigal as the first song of this blog for the last three months, and now we have reached a stage when we have almost exhausted all K L Saigal movie songs to be discussed. Now only the non movie songs (about 20 odd) are yet to be discussed. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 23, 2011
“Kurukshetra” (1945) is one of the lesser known K L Saigal movies, as far as I am concerned. This movie had actors like K L Saigal. Nawab Kashmiri, Shaamlee, Udwwadia, Biman Bannerji, Radha Rani,Ajit,Tara,Agha Mehmood Kashmiri etc. This movie was directed by Rameshwar Sharma.
Posted by: Atul on: August 21, 2011
Out of 110 movie songs sung by K L Saigal , 106 are available and 100 of them have been discussed in this blog. Searching for the 6 remaining songs not yet discussed in like searching for a needle in a haystack. After careful search, it has been revealed that this particular song from “Krorepati”(1936) [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 18, 2011
Typically our readers send us farmaishes of songs and we in this blog struggle to fulfil all these farmaishes. And it is my fond wish that a day will come when the shoe will be on the other foot and our readers will struggle to think of songs as farmaishes.
Posted by: Atul on: August 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Saigal Saab acted in 29 Hindi movies during his career of 15 years. Of these, 21 films were produced by New Theatres. In an unbroken association from 1932 to 1941, Saigal Saab appeared in 20 films [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 11, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Since the time machines started getting invented, and later became an integral part of how the society (or a part of the society) started to use them on a large scale, a certain divide between the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. Street Singer (1938) is a landmark film, that was a big success in its own time. The film is a trendsetter, and a musical bonanza beyond par. Produced by BN Sircar for New Theatres, Calcutta and [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 8, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contrributor to this blog. Everything that Saigal Saab has rendered, is special. And then, whatever one is listening, in the moment, always seems more special than the others. That is the magic of this voice, no matter how many [...]
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