Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
Loot liyo mandheer
Posted on: February 23, 2011
A few hours ago, I came across a lovely song from a very old movie. Here is this song, which is sung by Kanan Devi, and I guess that this song is picturised on her as well. Aarzoo Lucknowi is the lyricist and music is composed by R C Boral.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog
In many of my posts I have talked about Rafi saab. And that is because I just love his voice. It goes straight to my heart. Apparently, from all accounts, he was also a simple, generous human being – and this only adds to the reason why I have extremely high regard for him.
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Aaj koi hai aanewaalaa
Posted on: February 21, 2011
“Shair” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. The movie did well at the box office. This movie was a musical blockbuster. I have discussed as many as six songs from this movie in these pages in the past.
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Suraiyya, who made her debut in Hindi movies as a child artist in 1942, began to get the roles of heroines from 1946 onwards. In “Parwaanaa” (1947), she got to act opposite K L Saigal, then the reigning superstar of the time.
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Saajan ghar aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2011
“Station Master” (1942) is a movie that had Prem Adeeb and Ratnamala in lead roles. It was in this movie that Suraiyya, then 13 years of age, made her Hindi movie debut under the name of Baby Suraiyya. It was in this movie that she got to sung her first song, which was picturised on herself.
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“Anuraag” (1956) was a movie produced by Mukesh, who those days was toying with the idea of becoming an Actor-Singer and was producing movies as well.
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“Maashooqaa” (1953) is a movie that starred Mukesh, Suraiyya, Agha, Durga Khote, Kuldeep Kaur etc. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Chaaron oar andheraa
Posted on: February 7, 2011
In Indian mythology, viz Mahabharata, Subhadra was the sister of Lord Krishna and she got married to Krishna’s dear friend Arjun. There have been many Hindi movies about Krishna and about Arjun, but to the best of my knowledge, there has been only one movie on Subhadra.
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Parwaanon se preet seekh len
Posted on: February 1, 2011
The lyrics of this song has been provided by Sudhir , a new reader of this blog and a fellow entusiast of Hindi movies and their songs
It is interesting to know how the information that is common knowledge four decades back becomes rare information with passage of time. Today few people know about the existence of this movie and its songs. When I was growing up as a pre teen kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, information about this movie was readily available but I never bothered to look that up. after all I was a pre teen kid, who was only interested in the new songs and new movies, not old ones like this.
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Aankhon mein tum dil mein tum ho
Posted on: January 30, 2011
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“Half Ticket” (1962) is a much loved comedy movie starring Kishore Kumar, Madhubala and Pran.
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