Archive for the ‘Male lullaby’ Category
Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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Aaja ri nindiyaa
Posted on: July 23, 2012
It is said that making people laugh is serious business. Just because some people who make others laugh does not mean that they are not capable of being serious. On the contrary, such people are capable of being serious and sensitive too.
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Chanda ke desh mein rehti ek raani
Posted on: March 11, 2012
“Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960) was a Minerva Movietone movie. It was directed by Sohrab Modi. The movie had Sohrab Modi, Subbiraj,Sulochana, Naaz, Balraj, Daisy Irani, Kavita, Nana Palsikar, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Ravi made his debut as a music director in 1955 and he composed music for over 110 Hindi movies during his long and successful career. Assuming that there were 8 songs on an average in each of his movies, he has composed some 900 sings in his Hindi movie career as a music director.
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Mere lalla ko sulaayegi nindiya
Posted on: February 23, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I was aware of the film Suhagan (1964) but never knew that one more film by the same name was released in 1954. In fact, I found that most of the websites including IMD jumbled the details of both these films in Suhagan (1954). As per Indian Film Trade website, the film was produced by Datta Dharmadhikari, a Marathi film veteran who has been known for producing and directing family drama films. Anant Mane, also a veteran Marathi film director, directed the film. The star cast included Geeta Bali and Jaswant in the lead role and Shyam Kumar, Sulochana, Vijaylaxmi, Janakidas in subsidiary roles.
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“Rajput” (1982) was produced by Musheer-Riaz and it was directed by Vijay Anand. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Dharmendra, all of them towards the fag end of their careers, in lead roles.
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Dheere se aa jaa ri ankhiyan mein
Posted on: January 5, 2012
One of the much loved genre of songs in Hindi movies is lullaby. There have been some memorable lullabies in Hindi movies.
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So jaa baaba mere so jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
Lullabies are a much loved category of songs in Hindi movies. Most lullabies are sung by female singers as one would expect. But there are exceptions where male singers too have sung lullabies.
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So jaa raajkumaari so jaa
Posted on: June 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Zindagi” (1940) only just recently, but I was familiar with a couple of songs from this movie for some four decades. I had been listening to these songs at the srtoke of 8 AM on radio many a times in 1970s.
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In this blog, I have posted several genre of songs. Not every song is everyone’s cup of tea. There are some genre of songs that can only be appreciated by very few people with tastes acquired after decades.
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