Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
Sochaa thhaa kyaa kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: September 9, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. So far, all the songs posted by me (all 8 of them) have been centred around Noorjahaan and Surendra, but this movie als had Suraiyya in it. And naturally, she too sang songs in this movie.
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I have posted three songs from “Mirza Ghalib” (1954) in the past. It seems that there are readers who are aware of more songs from this movie.
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I have been posting the songs of “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. It was pointed out to me that I had not posted arguably the most popular song of the movie, viz. “Aawaaz de tu kahaan hai”. Was it really so ? I checked up and found that I had posted two songs from this movie starting with “A” , but the song under discussion was not one of them. And I was actually under the impression that the song was already posted !
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Ye raat suhaani raat nahin
Posted on: September 7, 2010
I find that I have posted only one song from “Dil e Naadaan” (1953) so far. Here is another song from this movie.
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These days I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946). In this series, here is the seventh song from this movie.
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Mat bolo bahaar ki batiyaan re
Posted on: September 5, 2010
While looking up information about Naushad, I found out that he made his debut as a music director in 1940 in a movie called “Prem Nagar”. In this movie he composed as many as 13 songs. Those are the days when actors themselves used to sing their own songs.
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Ab kaun hai meraa
Posted on: September 4, 2010
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) was the biggest hit of the year 1946 and this movie in fact must be regarded as a landmark movie in the Hindi movie industry. The movie had Noorjehaan, Surendra and Suraiyya in lead roles. These three in fact sang their own songs. There was no dearth of songs in this movie. There were as many as 12 songs in it and they all became very popular.
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Sahaara koi mil jaataa
Posted on: August 18, 2010
I am not much familiar with the name of this movie called “Raftaar”(1955). Thanks to the farmaish of songs from this movie, I now know that this movie had Talat Mehmood and Nadira in lead roles. Talat Mehmood, like Mukesh was toying with the idea of establishing himself as an actor-singer. Singing career of both of them suffered and both of them soon gave up acting.
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Dole hriday ki naiyya
Posted on: August 17, 2010
Here is a song from the very early days of Hindi talkies, viz 1937, only 6 years after Indian movies had started talking. The movie is “Vidyapati” (1937)
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Koi lelo bhaiyya
Posted on: August 14, 2010
Here is a song from a very old movie called “Meenakshi” (1942). I became aware of this movie because of a farmaish by Sid for this song. This movie had Ahindra Chowdhury, Sadhana Bose and K C Dey in lead roles.
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