Archive for August 2009
During early 1950s, the biggest name in male playback singing was Talat Mehmood, and like Suraiyya on the distaff side, he was foraying into acting too. In fact, many music directors at that time thought that he was not avaialble to sing for other actors ( like Suraiyya) and as a result he stopped getting offers for playback singing for other actors.
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We have seen songs picturised on Raj Kapoor that were sung mostly by Mukesh, but sometimes by other playback singers as well. For example, there were occasions when Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood etc have sung for Raj Kapoor. In fact, in a few early movies, Raj Kapoor sang for himself !
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I had never heard about this movie called “Raja Saahab” (1969). This movie had Shashi Kapoor and Nanda. May be that is why I had never heard about this movie. 😉
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Ye tabla kahe dhik hai dhik hai
Posted on: August 21, 2009
“Smuggler” (1966) was a kind of movie which was regarded as B grade stuff in 1960s, but movies like this became mainstream by 1970s.
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Here is a song from a movie called “Heer” (1956). It is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist and Anil Biswas composed the music.
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Bhor suhaani aayi
Posted on: August 21, 2009
I talk a lot about “chaayageet” song that are best heard late at night. But how about songs that are best heard at other times of the day ? Yes, there are such songs too.
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Hemant Kumar was a singer whose voice was tailormade for singing “chaayaageet” songs. And he had been singing such songs from the time when even this term “Chaayaageet” was not coined because the radio channel that broadcasted this programme was non existent those days.
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“House Number 44” (1955) is a movie so old that not too many people know about this movie. This movie had Dev Anand in lead role and it had music by S D Burman.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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After quite a while, here is one more Rafi-Shammi Kapoor song. This song in fact features not only the Hero and the heroine, but the entire gang of their friends ( read sidekicks ).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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