Archive for April 2010
There are very well known songs that remain well known to this day. Then there are songs that one may have listened to in distant past, never to be heard again. It is rather like Bollywood lost and found stories where family members get separated in childhood.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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Naa maaro nazariyaa ke baan
Posted on: April 24, 2010
“Pehli Jhalak” (1954) was a remake of a South Indian language movie. Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were the lead actors in this Hindi version remake of this movie.
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Bhoole se muhabbat kar baithaa
Posted on: April 23, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) in the past. But the title song/ theme song of the movie is not one of them.
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If you are in an introspective mood, then there is nothing like a song sung by Pradeep. Pradeep, who wrote his songs with feeling, sung his songs with feeling too whenever he was called upon to sing songs. I have posted many immortal songs written and sung by Pradeep in this blog.
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Here is a song from a forgotten movie called “Ghar Sansaar” (1958). This movie had Balraj Sahni and Nargis in lead roles.
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I was not aware of this song from “Kavi” (1954) till today. It is only when a regular reader of this blog (Dr. Rashmikant Vyas) informed me about this song that I have listened to this song for the first time just now. What a lovely song !
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Today Mukesh is regarded as a legendary singer who gave us some very memorable evergreen songs. But it was not a smooth sailing for Mukesh in his earlier years. The period of 1954 to 1956 was a very lean period for Mukesh when he had decided to turn an actor as well as producer.
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Mausam aayaa hai rangeen
Posted on: April 19, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Dholak” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
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Sunaaun kis ko afsaanaa
Posted on: April 18, 2010
Shirin Farhaad” (1956) was a movie with Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. This movie had one memorable song in it ( Guzra hua zamaana aata nahin dobaara) that I have posted earlier in this blog. Here is another song from this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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