Archive for 2010
- In: "Sales pitch" song | Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Comedy song | Duet | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar's comedy songs | Shamshad Begam songs | Shamshad Begam-Kishore Kumar duet | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Stage song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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The golden era of Hindi movie music was enriched not only by the well known music directors, but also by the lesser known names. Many of these lesser known music directors deserved much more recognition and opportunities than what they ultimately ended up with.
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“Albela” (1951) was the ultimate highmark in the career of Bhagwan. This movie was a box office success and a musical extravaganza.
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“Anarkali” (1953) is full of iconic songs. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in the past, but there are still songs (that too iconic songs) that are not yet covered.
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O bedardi yoon hamko sataa naa
Posted on: December 7, 2010
“Singaar” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya, Jairaj, Madhubala. It has so many songs in it that I wonder whether this movie has any time left for dialogues.
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Raat bhi hai kuchh bheegi bheegi
Posted on: December 6, 2010
“Mujhe Jeene Do” (1963) is a movie with a moving message. It was about the lives of bandits. What lies in store for the bandits who want to get reformed and join the mainstream of society, with same hopes and aspirations for their kids like normal people ? This movie is a moving picturisation on this issue.
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I was aware of a movie called “Do Phool” (1973) but it now I have come to know that there was another movie of this name in 1958. This movie “Do Phool”(1958) is far more obscure that its 1973 namesake. This movie was obviously a B grade movie with no saleable stars in it.
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- In: "Kaleja" song | Artist century song in blog | Body part song | Century songs for the blog | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lata song | Multiple version song | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1955 | Talat Mehmood - Lata duet | Talat Mehmood songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
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When I began this blog, I discussed songs at the rate of one song per day. Soon I began to discuss more songs every day. With time, I created pages to keep the list of songs in some order. Now there are pages that list songs by movie, by music director as well as by year.
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I am a big fan of Ravi. He is perhaps the only music director who was around when the golden era of Hindi movie music began to the time this era was finally gone for ever. His career began as a chorus singer in late 1940s,then he became assistant to Hemant Kumar (he was his assistant in “Naagin” (1954)) and then he became an independent music director with “Vachan” (1955). From then on till 1980s, he composed songs, many of which became so popular that they ended up becoming iconic songs. I in fact describe Ravi as a composer of iconic songs.
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When Dilip Kumar began his career as a lead actor in Hindi movies, Talat Mehmood gave playback for him. It was from mid 1950s onwards that Rafi became his (and for that matter every one’s) voice.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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