Archive for July 2009
Sultana sultana tu naa ghabraana
Posted on: July 28, 2009
“Shreeman Funtoosh” was apparently a movie of 1965. It had Kishore Kumar and Kumkum in lead roles.
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Tum sang preet lagaayi rasiyaa
Posted on: July 28, 2009
“New Delhi”(1956) is a movie that I find interesting. This movie had Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles. This movie is interesting because it shows New Delhi as it was more than fifty years ago. Many important landmarks that we take for granted today in New Delhi were non existent at that time, as we can see from watching this movie.
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Several generations of kids, from 1947 onwards were brought up reading the stories of “Chandamama” kid’s magazine, which was published in several languages from Madras.
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Here is a light hearted romantic song from a movie called “Dulha Dulhan” (1964).
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Main kaun hoon kyaa hoon
Posted on: July 27, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who made his singing debut in 1948 with “Ziddi”(1948) soon became an actor-singer too. In 1950s, he began to come into his own in this role.
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I have been posting songs from “Aah” (1953) these days, and I am realising that this movie has one nice song after another.
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Koi kisi kaa deewaana na bane
Posted on: July 27, 2009
I am familiar with a movie called “Sargam” that was released in 1979 and that had hit music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. But there was another movie by this name in 1950. It had hit music by C Ramchandra.
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I have been posting songs from “Aag” (1948) for the last few days. In this series, here is another song from this movie.
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Haay sharmaaun kis kis ko bataaun
Posted on: July 26, 2009
How did one jugde the popularity of a song in the olden days ? One way was to listen to the Binaca geetmala coundown show. Another was to find out what songs were being requested the most in “Aaphi ke geet” farmaishi programmes by the farmaish senders of Jhumri Tilaiyaa.
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“Choron Ka Chor” (1970) was a C grade movie in which people like Roopesh Kumar and Jaishree T had played lead roles.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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