Archive for 2010
“Ek Sholaa”(1958) is a forgotten movie by now. It had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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Koi laakh kare chaturaayi
Posted on: August 18, 2010
If you want to calm your nerves by listening to music then it is often a good idea to listen to a song sung by Kavi Pradeep. He was mainly a poet, but he also sang a few songs and most of these songs went on to become immortal songs.
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Sahaara koi mil jaataa
Posted on: August 18, 2010
I am not much familiar with the name of this movie called “Raftaar”(1955). Thanks to the farmaish of songs from this movie, I now know that this movie had Talat Mehmood and Nadira in lead roles. Talat Mehmood, like Mukesh was toying with the idea of establishing himself as an actor-singer. Singing career of both of them suffered and both of them soon gave up acting.
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“Mastaanaa” (1954) was a movie starring Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Chandrashekhar,Kuldip Kaur, Sundar,Gope etc.
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“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) is a movie that has so many fantastic songs in it that I wonder why this movie is not all that well known. Considering how songs played major parts in the success of movies, this movie should have gone on to become a major hit on the basis of its music alone.
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I have posted all but one song from “Madhumati” (1958) so far. This movie is arguably one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all time in Hindi movie history. Here is the last song from this movie that was yet to be posted.
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Chhotaa saa baalmaa
Posted on: August 17, 2010
The name of O P Nayyar is normally associated with racy songs. He was not a classical music trained music director, unlike many of his peers. But even then, O P Nayyar could still come up with lovely semi classical songs if the situation so demanded.
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I just realised that I had not posted this well known song from “Shree 420” (1955) so far. Here is this lovely and cute song.
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I have posted several songs from “Aan” (1952) and I thought I had posted this one too, but when I was looking at the list of old farmaishes, I found that I had yet to post this song.
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Dole hriday ki naiyya
Posted on: August 17, 2010
Here is a song from the very early days of Hindi talkies, viz 1937, only 6 years after Indian movies had started talking. The movie is “Vidyapati” (1937)
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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