Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
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.
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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Aison se jee na lagaaye koi
Posted on: September 16, 2011
Suraiyya, who was the leading lady of “Daak Bangla” (1947) had sung quite a few songs in this movie.
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Ambuwaa pe koyal boley
Posted on: September 16, 2011
“Moorti” (1945) was a movie produced by Ranjit Movietone. It was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. The movie had Motilal, Khursheed, Padma Banerjee, Yashwant Dube, Kamal Jamindar, Kaneez, Tara Bai etc. in it. Only the first two names in the cast are somewhat familiar. I have little idea about the other actors in the list.
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Ho ho ho chaandni raat hai
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a National Pictures production. It was directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Wasti, Suraiyya, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, M Ismail etc in it.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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“Teasing” songs where the hero teases the heroine while singing a roadside Romeo genre of song is not quite my cup of tea, especially when the hero is someone like Rajendra Kumar. But I am prepared to condone such teasing when the hero is someone like Shammi Kapoor or Kishore Kumar. Who said that I am impartial in my likings of actors. 😀 Yes,I am objective and impartial in my likings only when it comes to singers, not actors. 🙂
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