Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
Lelo sone ka laddoo
Posted on: January 30, 2011
He is a song that I heard for the first time only recently. This song is from a movie called “Paisa Hi Paisa” (1956) and this movie too is unfamiliar to me.
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I had heard of the movie called “Bilwamangal” (1954) even in my younger days, because I had read about this movie in magazines. That is all I knew about this movie till now.
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Fasle bahaar gaaye jaa
Posted on: January 28, 2011
Here is a very old song from an old and forgotten movie called “Nazma” (1943). This song is sung by two female singers. This song could be called a song of contrasting moods or a happy-sad song, where Sitara Devi exudes happiness and joy whereas Parul Ghosh sings with sadness and pathos.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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Tum meet mere tum praan mere
Posted on: January 25, 2011
“Jeet” (1949) is a movie that paired Suraiyya (a popular star of the time) with Dev Anand, then a new comer.
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Aaj ronaa padaa to samjhe
Posted on: January 24, 2011
“Girl friend” (1960), not to be confused with “Boyfriend” (1961) was a movie starring Kishore Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Daisy Irani, Nazir Hussain, Bipin Gupta, Leela Mishra etc.
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Aise mein agar tum aa jaate
Posted on: January 9, 2011
“Balam”(1949) is a movie that had Suraiyya in it alongwith Wasti,Nigar Sultana, Agha etc. This movie is also significant for the fact that Suraiyya and Lata sang together for the first time (out of a total of just five such occasions). I have in fact already discussed the first such Lata-Suraiyya duet which is O o pardesi musaafir kise kartaa hai ishaare .
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Ye chaand sitaare kyaa jaanen
Posted on: January 2, 2011
“Khoobsoorat” (1952) is one of the obscure movies with Madan Mohan’s music in it. I have little idea about the cast of this movie, but I find that this movie has a song sung by Suraiyya. This tells me that Suraiyya was clearly there in this movie as the leading lady. And this also tells me that Madan Mohan in that case had a few of his songs sung by Suraiyya too.
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Very little is known Hindi movie songs from the earlier days, viz 1930s and 1940s. Those were the days when actors themselves sang for themselves. Sound reecording technology was in its infancy and producing decent quality records was a technological challenge. The fact that films and records quickly degraded meant that preservation of these items was a Herculean task as well.
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Geet suno wo geet sainyya
Posted on: December 22, 2010
“Pukaar” (1939) made by Sohrab Modi is regarded as a landmark movie in the history of Hindi movies. I as a pre teen kid was never impreessed by such talk of old movies being landmak movies. I never watched this movie nor bothered to listen to its songs. And now, this movie as well as its songs have become too rare to find.
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