Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
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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“Kanchan” (1941) is a movie about which not much is known today, except that this movie had Leela Chitnis in it.
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“Sindoor” (1947) was produced by Filmistan studio. Kishore Sahu was its director. He himself was the hero of this movie. This movie had Kishore Sahu, Paro, Shamim, Gulab, Rajendra, Mehmood, Pratima Devi, Sushil Sahu etc in it.
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Phir hamen koi yaad aaye hain
Posted on: August 27, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Do Dil” which was released in 1965. Now I find that there was another movie of the same name which was released in 1947.
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As long back as 1939, there was a fun movie called “Brandy Ki Bottle” . In this movie, a man (Master Vinayak) is asked by his boss to bring a bottle of Brandy to cure the illness of his boss’ kid. This man is not aware what is Brandy, and that leads to hilarious scenes throughout the movie.
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We have been discussing one K L Saigal song as the first song of this blog for the last three months, and now we have reached a stage when we have almost exhausted all K L Saigal movie songs to be discussed. Now only the non movie songs (about 20 odd) are yet to be discussed. Within one month, we can expect to have all the available K L Saigal songs to be covered in this blog. And this is something we can really be proud of.
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As I discover more songs of ‘Bandhan” (1940), I cannot but help feel that this movie must have stolen the heart of the movie goers during its time and Leela Chitnis would have become a heart throb of public, in case she was not one already. What a lovely performance from her in this movie. In this movie, she plays a playful and cheerful girl who is forever prepared to play a prank or too.
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Tu aa gayi tu aa gayi
Posted on: August 23, 2011
“Kurukshetra” (1945) is one of the lesser known K L Saigal movies, as far as I am concerned. This movie had actors like K L Saigal. Nawab Kashmiri, Shaamlee, Udwwadia, Biman Bannerji, Radha Rani,Ajit,Tara,Agha Mehmood Kashmiri etc. This movie was directed by Rameshwar Sharma.
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Apne bhaiyya ko naach nachaaoongi
Posted on: August 21, 2011
“Bandhan” (19408), though over seven decades old has songs that sound fresh and contemporary to me even to this date. And for that one has to admire the creators of these songs who created such timeless classic.
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