Archive for 2010
(This article is written by Raja, a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood songs)
This song is the 2600th on this blog. That’s quite a milestone, considering every song is a construction on its own.
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“Banarasi Thug” (1962) was a B grade movie with Manoj Kumar and Vijaya Chaudhary in lead roles. The movie was B grade, but there were so many underemployed talented music directors those days that movie makers had no trouble getting A grade music composed even in B and C grade movies.
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Sun jaa pukaar
Posted on: July 11, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Phagun” (1958). Here is another song from this movie.
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I was under the impression that I had posted nearly all the songs of “Aawaara” (1951) in this blog. But I was wrong, There are still songs from this movie that need to be posted.
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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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