Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
Man mein uthhe uchhaale mere
Posted on: September 29, 2011
I had discussed a song from the obscure movie called “Preet” (1945). According to the little information available about this movie, it was directed by Ram Daryani and it had Chandramohan, Nazir , Snehprabha , Swarnalata , Pahari Sanyal, Gope , Gulab etc in it.
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“Moorti” (1945) is a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it.
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Sharaabi soch na kar matwaale
Posted on: September 24, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Radio broadcast services were introduced in India in 1927. The first establishment to broadcast radio signals for public consumption was a private company named India Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). This company was the forerunner of All India Radio (AIR).
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Kab tak niraasha ki andhiyaari
Posted on: September 22, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Music has always been an enchanting appeal for me, since my childhood. Having grown up on a listening diet of radio programs on AIR and Radio Ceylon, the music of Hindi films has been the best charm for me. In the eighties, fresh out of college, and into my first job, the earnings meant that now I could buy music that I wanted to listen. Cassette tapes were the popular media in those days, and making copies of music from records was a rampant cottage industry.
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Madbhari rut jawaan hai
Posted on: September 21, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Pankaj Mullick, the name that shines in the Bengali music and culture as one of the brightest stars. Most of us are familiar with Pankaj Babu as being an accomplished composer and singer. But, much more than that, he was an innovator par excellence. Not many are familiar with the fact that this gifted musician, through his experimentation with providing music to films, originated the concept of background music in Indian cinema, to accentuate the emotions, the action and the pace of the scenes on screen.
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The realisation that there are no more K L Saigal songs to discuss now gives me an empty feeling, but with that also comes the satisfaction of a job well done. The satisfaction that the blog now has all the K L Saigal songs in Hindi/Urdu that are available- movie songs as well as non movie songs is immense.
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Baalam to pe sabar padey
Posted on: September 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘baalam to pe sabar padey, moraa maikaa chhudaaye deenhon raam’
“O dear sweetheart, you have made me relinquish my mother’s home, hope you are now pleased and satisfied”
More than ‘Gham diye mushtaqil kitna naazuk hai dil (Shahjahan). . .’, and ‘Jab dil hi toot gaya(Shahjahan). . .’, this unfinished song is a much more fitting signature song that suddenly defines the totality of Saigal Saab’s essence of spirit, and sums up his entire life in terms of the most relevant event of human existence – the final departure.
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Ghir ghir aaye baadal kaare
Posted on: September 17, 2011
“Daak Banglaa” (1947) is a movie where Suraiyya seemingly sang most of the songs. I have so far discussed four songs from this movie and her voice appears in all of them, either solo or as part of a duet.
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Jaag sajaniyaa jaag
Posted on: September 17, 2011
I just now realised that we are coming to an end of all K L Saigal songs that are there to be discussed. Yes, it is true that we in this blog have covered all the available movie and non movie songs in Hindi/Urdu that were sung by K L Saigal.
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