Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
- In: Actor-Singer song | Devnagri script lyrics by Sudhir | Feelings of heart | Guest posts | Happy-Sad song | Lyrics contributed by readers | Noorjehaan songs | Post by nahm | Rajkumari song | Rare song | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1943 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
- 13 Comments
This article is written by nahm, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I am going down memory lane, to my school days. We would come back from school at 3:30 p.m. and at that time Vividh Bharati would be silent till 5:30 p.m. So we would put on the radio and searching for songs, invariably we found All India Radio (Urdu service) where they broadcast the programme “aap ki farmaish” which continued till 5 o’clock.
Read more on this topic…
Dekhne waalon thhaam ko dil ko
Posted on: January 19, 2013
“Krorepati” (1961) was a Saigal Bothers Production. It was produced by Om Prakash Saigal and directed by Mohan Saigal. The movie had Kisore Kumar, Shashikala, Kum Kum, K. N. Singh, Anoop Kumar, Mirza Musharaff, Radhakishan, Haroon, S. Bannerjee, Ramlal, Shamlal, Brahm Bharadwaj, Daya Devi, Pal Sharma, Prem, Dev Chand etc in it.
Read more on this topic…
O meri maina sun mera kehna
Posted on: January 18, 2013
“Krorepati” (1961) was a Saigal brothers production. It was produced by Om Prakash Saigal and directed by Mohan Saigal. The movie had Kisore Kumar, Shashikala, Kum Kum, K. N. Singh, Anoop Kumar, Mirza Musharaff, Radhakishan, Haroon, S. Bannerjee, Ramlal, Shamlal, Brahm Bharadwaj, Daya Devi, Pal Sharma, Prem, Dev Chand etc in it.
Read more on this topic…
Dil chheen ke jaata hai
Posted on: January 15, 2013
“Alibaba” (1940) was one of the oldest movie on the well on tale of Alibaba. Hardly any information is available about this movie. Here is what Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, has to say about this movie:
Read more on this topic…
Kyun dil mein mere basey ho
Posted on: January 11, 2013
- In: Actor-Singer song | Artist century song in blog | Biography of artists | Biography of lyricist | Century songs for the blog | Duet | G M Durrani song | G M Durrani Suraiyya duet | Guest posts | Post by Sudhir | Songs of 1940s (1941 to 1950) | Songs of 1948 | Suraiyya songs | Yearwise breakup of songs
- 1 Comment
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The best way to write about a poet is to write about his works, his poetry. But when we come to a poet of the stature of Rajinder Krishan, it becomes a very difficult task to write about his poetry. One simply does not know where to start. The body of work is enormous, and the number of pleasing heart stealers is so numerous, that just a sample list of favorites will go beyond a reasonable length for a write up. And no matter how representative one makes this sampler list, readers and friends will come up with wonderful gems of A grade quality that must be included.
Read more on this topic…
Main albeli titli
Posted on: January 8, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
In the decades of 30s and 40s, some of the female singers made it to Hindi films as actors thanks to their ability to sing well. It would appear that in those days, it was more of the singing ability than the acting skills which was the deciding factors for the film producers to pick up the female actors. Some of the prominent singing female actors of that period were Khursheed Bano, Noor Jehan, Kanan Bala, Shanta Apte, Suraiya, Amirbai Karnataki, Rajkumari etc.
Read more on this topic…
Dekho dekho sajan tum na aana
Posted on: December 31, 2012
“Meri Kahaani” (1948) was a Super Team Federal Productions movie. It was directed by Keki Mistry. The movie had Surendra, Munawwar Sultana, Pratima Devi, Ramesh Sinha, Murad, Bhudo Advani etc in it.
Read more on this topic…
Kaali ghataaon jaao
Posted on: December 17, 2012
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
——————————————–
Unknown composers Article 1- Ramprasad Sharma
———————————————
Film Industry is one industry which grew fery fast. Firstly, there was no competition (except from AIR) for entertainment and secondly, joining this industry needed no special qualifications.
Read more on this topic…
Chalo haseen geet ek banaayen
Posted on: December 10, 2012
Today (10 december) happens to be Ashok Kumar’s death anniversary as well as Rati Agnihotri’s birthday.The two of them were from entirely different generations, as there was an age difference of 49 years between the two ! Still, the two of them have not only worked together but they have even figured in a duet song !
Read more on this topic…
Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Recent comments