Archive for September 2012
Aa dil se dil milaa le
Posted on: September 8, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
Asha Bhonsle, the versatile singer, has been with the Indian film and music industries for over six decades. She is also a multi-talented personality. She acted in one or two films as child artist;she composed music for a couple of non-filmy albums of her songs; she is in TV reality shows. I have also read that she does mimicry in her overseas concerts and is an excellent cook.
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Hain mauj mein apne begaane
Posted on: September 8, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings, Asha ji, on your 79th birth anniversary.
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It is my observation that the careers of many actors in Hindi movies were made and sustained thanks to the great music that their movies had. It is difficult to imagine these movies becoming hits without their hit music. And as we all know, Hindi moviegoers are initially attracted towards movie halls because of the music and these songs are often one of the biggest selling points of these movies. Movies without songs have a hard time finding distributors.
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- In: Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lyrics by Nitin Shah | Lyrics contributed by readers | Mukesh songs | Mukesh-Asha Bhonsle duet | Shammi Kapoor songs | Shammi Kapoor songs by Mukesh | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1955 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Daaku” (1955) was a Basant Pictures Production. It was directed by Aspi Irani. This B grade movie had Shammi Kapoor, Shashikala, Kuldip Kaur,W. M. Khan, Anwar, Babu Raje, Sheikh etc.
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- In: "Aankh" song | Asha Bhonsle songs | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Rafi songs | Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet | Raj Kapoor songs | Raj Kapoor songs by Rafi | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1959 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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Today (8 september) is an important date for music lovers of Hindi movie songs. It was on this date in 1933 that Asha Bhonsle was born. Today she turns 79. And she has been giving playback in HIndi movies since 1948. So she has been a playback singer for the last sixtyfour years ! Simply unbelievable.
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Today (7 september) is the death anniversary of Vasundhara Devi. She was a leading actress of Tamil movies in 1940s and 1950s. She also acted in one Hindi movie namely “Paighaam”(1959) where she played the role of Vyjyanti Mala.
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Aao baithho baat suno
Posted on: September 7, 2012
Today (7 september) is G M Durrani’s death anniversary. G M Durrani, who began his playback career in 1930s, was active till 1950s. He had become so popular by early 1940s that the then up and coming Rafi regarded G M Durrani as his idol.
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Today (7 september) is the death anniversary of P L Santoshi (7 august 1916- 7 september 1978). His actual name was Pyarelal Srivastava and he was born in Jabalpur, the same place that Premnath came from.
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- In: Ameerbai Karnataki songs | Artist century song in blog | Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Lyrics by Atif M | Lyrics contributed by readers | Lyrics contributor century song | Pathos | Rare song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1949 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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When the musical bandwagon of this blog rolls on at its cruising speed then we move on at the rate of 100 songs per fortnight. The previous century was one fortnight ago. In other words, we complete yet another century of songs with this song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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