Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
“Zeenat” (1945) is a movie that is directed by Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. This movie had Noorjahaan, Zohrabai Ambalewaali, Cuckoo, Shashikala (then a child), Baby Khursheed (later known as Shyama) etc. In fact, this movie seems to be a movie with mainly female actors . : D All the eight songs of this movie have been sung only by female singers, and that includes an all female qawwaali (Aahen na bharin shiqwe na kiye ).
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“Zameendaar” (1942) is a movie that had Shanta Apte, Manorama, Ghulam Mohammad,S D Narang,M Esmail etc in it. This movie, though forgotten along with its music has some wonderful songs in it.
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While discussing songs, I often like to discuss songs that are rare/ unusual/unexpected in some ways. For example, songs sung by people normally not known for their singing, songs composed by people who are normally known for some other activity, lyricist/music director/singer figuring in the picturisation of the song etc.
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“Moti Mahal” (1952) is one of those B grade movies that have been forgotten with time. this movie had Ajit, Suraiyya, Jeewan, Ratan Kumar, Satish, Veera, Roopmala etc in it.
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“Tansen” (1943) is a movie in which K L Saigal had played the title role and he had sung some outstanding songs. all those songs have already been discussed in this blog.
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Kaaghaz ki thhi wo naao
Posted on: September 2, 2011
I just came across this rare song from an obscure movie. The movie is called “Zabaan” (1943) and it had actors like Dixit, Mubarak, Ishwarlal, Kaushalya etc in it. None of these names rings any bell as far as I am concerned.
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Asha sukh ke khel khilaaye
Posted on: August 31, 2011
“Meri Aankhen” (1939) is such an old and obscure movie that there may not be too much information available about this movie on internet. I have not been able to gather any information about this movie. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw light on this movie.
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These days, I love to listen to the songs sung by female singers of 1930s and 1940s. And one singer that I have discovered only just recently is Nirmala Devi. today, she is known to people more as the mother of actor Govinda, but to me she is a star in her own right.
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Present day movie watchers may associate the title “Khiladi” with Akshay Kumar, but a title like this has been used in Hindi movies for a long time. For example, there was a movie called ‘Khiladi” as far back as 1950. This movie had Ashok Kumar, Suraiyya, Sundar, Indu, Kukku etc in it.
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Beech bhanwar mori naao
Posted on: August 28, 2011
“Shaarda” (1942) is a movie that was produced by A R Kardar. This movie had actors like Arun Kumar Ahuja, Shyam Kumar, Badriprasad, Baburao Sansare, Nirmala Devi, Amir Bano, Mehtab etc.
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