Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
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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“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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