Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
I associate “Parwaana” (1947) with songs of K L Saigal, though in my younger days, “Parwaana” for me meant a movie of 1971 where Naveen Nischol was the hero and Amitabh Bachchan the villain.
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I had never heard this song before. I heard this song for the first time only just now.
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Ek roz hamaari bhi daal galegi
Posted on: August 25, 2009
When I look at the star cast of “Bandi” (1957), I notice that it had all the Ganguly brothers viz Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar in it and the three leading ladies in this movies were Bina Rai, Shyama and Nanda. That way this movie must have been like “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi”. I wonder what happened to “Bandi” at the box office. With this kind of star cast, the movie certainly promised so much.
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Ye bhi hakka
Posted on: August 24, 2009
Kishore Kumar as hero and Pran as villain was a recipe for great fun throughout the movie. And “Jaalsaaz” (1959) was one such movie.
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I have been posting songs from “Vidya” (1948) over the past few days. It was interesting to note that this movie was full of lovely emorable songs that are nice to listen to even today.
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“Vidya” (1948) had Dev Anand and Suraiyya in lead roles. Suraiyya was the leading singing star of that time and she sang her own songs.
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Hello Hello ji
Posted on: August 16, 2009
Telephones may be ubiquitous and affordable these days, but they were regarded as a luxury item in India till just two decades back. Getting a telephone connection took as long as getting a ration card or a gas connection in India of yesteryears.
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“Bambai Ka Chor” (1962) is known for one immortal song sung by Kishore Kumar, viz “Hasrat hi rahi hamse bhi kabhi koi pyaar kartaa”.
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We are so used to Mukesh being the voice of Raj Kapoor that we do not pause to think how it would be if Raj Kapoor sang for himself.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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