Archive for July 2010
Paayal waali dekhnaa
Posted on: July 10, 2010
Kishore Kumar is mainly associated with light hearted fun songs, though he has sung great songs in all genres including serious songs. It is a well known fact that Kishore Kumar was a natural singer, who had not taken any training in classical music, unlike most other leading singers. In fact,this lack of classical training was often taken to mean by music directors that Kishore Kumar could not sing such songs. I can recall at least one occasion where Manna Dey’s voice was used for Kishore Kumar the actor for a semi classical song situation. 🙂
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) is not a movie that I knew much about. I began to search for the songs of this movie after I was told by a reader (Veena Seth) that the songs of this movie are missing from the blog.
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I have posted a few songs from “Shamaa” (1961) in the past. This movie was the second last movie for Suraiyya and she sang some memorable songs in this movie, as well as in her last movie (“Rustam Sohrab”).
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Jaa jaa meri chhod de kalaayi
Posted on: July 10, 2010
In “Phagun”(1958), Not all songs were picturised on Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala.
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Aapse pyaar huaa jaataa hai
Posted on: July 9, 2010
I was under the impression that Suraiyya’s singing-acting career was over in 1950s, but she also had a few movies released in 1960s. It is another matter that her best days were behind her by that time.
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Teer ye chhupke chalaayaa kisne
Posted on: July 9, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Phaagun” (1958). I have posted four songs from this movie and I need to post nearly twice this number of songs still left to be posted.
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I have posted three songs from “Shair” (1949) in this blog, but what are three songs from a musical blockbuster movie that had nearly a dozen songs in it ! I need to post the remaining songs from this movie as well which are just as nice to listen to.
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Beparwaa bedardi paglaa deewaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
In 1970s, when action movies had become the mainstream movies in Bollywood, (after being looked down upon as C grade movies in the past decades), movies with non violent storylines had taken the back seat.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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