Archive for September 2012
Naghma e dil suna suna tu
Posted on: September 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This blog has crossed the figure of 6700 songs which have been discussed during the last 4 years 2 months. This prompted me to turn to statistics page of the blog. I counted that this blog has so far covered 298 music directors (MDs), 234 lyricists and 393 singers. These are significant figures compared with the total songs covered in the blog.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Kedar Nath Bahttacharya, who is known to music lovers as Kumar Sanu. Kumar Sanu made his debut as a playback singer in Hindi movies in 1987 with “Aandhiyaan” (1987). He shot to fame with the songs of “Aashiqui” (1990) which became a rage with music lovers.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Tanuja. She had a lot innings in Hindi movies beginning from 1960 and she has not really retired from movies even today.
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O babuaa ye mahuaa
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the 16th death anniversary of Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati (2 December 1960 – 23 September 1996), known popularly as Silk Smita.
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Today (23 september) is the birthday of Prem Chopra. Seeing that he played villain in most movies, there are not too many songs that were picturised on him. But there are such songs in Hindi movies.
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“Pyaar Ka Sapna” (1969) was a Modern Pictures presentation. It was directed by Hrishikesh Mukherji. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Helen, Kundan, Mridula, Johnny Walker, Durga Khote, Naina, Rajen Haksar etc in it.
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Khush rahe teri nagri beta
Posted on: September 23, 2012
“Ghar Basa Ke Dekho”(1963) was a Ratnadeep Productions movie. It was directed by Kishore Sahu. The movie had Manoj KUmar, Rajshree, Lalita Pawar, Savitri, Shyama, Leela Mishra, Randhir, Johnny Walker, Mehmood, Sudesh Kumar etc in it.
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Ye duniya bewafaai ki
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the death anniversary of Rajinder Krishan, an underestimated lyricist but who in reality dominated lyrics writing during the golden era of Hindi movie music. Among all the lyricists figuring in this blog, Rajinder Krishan has the second highest number of songs (554), behind Majrooh Sultanpuri (582).
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Ever since the anniversary page was added to the blog, we find ourselves dealing with several anniversaries almost on a daily basis. Today (23 september) is no exception. There are at least four different anniversaries today that I can think of off hand.
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Ye chaand to mridang hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Music lovers who search in YT often tend to come across some unheard of songs sometimes which sound like gems. The song is one such unsung unheard gem.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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