Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
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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“Shikaari” (1946) was one of the earliest movies of S D Burman as a music director. The songs of this movie became quite popular and helped S D Burman in getting a foothold in the Hindi movie music industry.
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Ek chatur naar karkar singaar
Posted on: December 20, 2010
“Jhoola” (1941) is a Bombay Talkies movies which had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles. This movie has a few songs that are remembered to this day.
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Mere chaand mere laal re
Posted on: December 19, 2010
Suraiyya was already a star (in singing as well as acting) when Lata was struggling to find a foothold in Hindi movie playback singing. When she established herself in late 1940s, she soon became the number one and never looked back since.
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Music was introduced in Hindi movies as soon as these movies began to talk (viz 1931). The first decade of talking movies saw actors singing their own songs, though playback singing too had started by 1935.
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Dil ki duniyaa ujad gayi
Posted on: December 15, 2010
“Shair” (1949) was a movie starring Suraiyya,Dev Anand, Kamini Kaushal, Agha,Sulochana etc. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have already discussed four of them.
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I have mentioned in the past that “Singaar” (1949) has many songs in it. I have not really counted them, but I am sure that there are more than a dozen great songs in it.
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“Dillagi” (1949) is a movie starring Shyam, Suraiyya, Shyam Kumar,Amar, Sharada,Amir Bano etc and out of these names, I am only familiar with Suraiyya and to some extent Shyam.
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O dupatta rang de mera rangrez
Posted on: December 12, 2010
“Gajre” (1948) is a long forgotten movie by now. This movie had Motilal,Suraiyya,Geeta Nizami etc in it.
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“Singaar”(1949) is a musical extravaganza. It has so many songs in it that I have been unable to satisfactorily count them.
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