Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
These days, I am posting a K L Saigal song as the first song of the day every day. In this series, here is a K L Saigal song from “Street Singer” (1938).
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Gham diye mustaqil
Posted on: February 19, 2009
Much like how Radio Ceylon would play a K L Saigal song at the stroke of 8 AM every morning, I too am posting a K L Saigal song as the first song every day. 😉
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Ek bangla bane nyaara
Posted on: February 18, 2009
Here is another K L Saigal classic from “President” (1937). Kidar Sharma was the lyricist ( can someone confirm it)and R C Boral was the music director.
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Jab dil hi toot gaya
Posted on: February 17, 2009
Till 1970s, Radio Ceylon Hindi service had “Puraani filmon ke geet” programme from 7-30 to 8 AM every day. The last song of the programme was invariably a K L Saigal song.
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Bombay to Goa
Posted on: February 16, 2009
“Bombay to Goa”(1972) which had a gawky looking Amitabh Bachchan playing hero was carried on the shoulders of Mahmood, and other comedians.
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Aake seedhi lagi
Posted on: February 8, 2009
“Half Ticket” was a laugh riot featuring Kishore Kumar and Pran. The movie had a heroine too, but I am not able to recall her name, that is how Kishore and Pran centric this movie was. Pran would for ever be after Kishore Kumar much like cartoon characters Tom and Jerry ( or replace their names by any other set of cartoon characters).
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It is a legendary song sung by Noorjahan and it was picturised on Noorjahan herself. The movie is “Anmol Ghadi”(1946).
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Kishore Kumar is mainly known for singing happy, bubbly kinds of songs but he was an allrounder.
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Don’t worry, be happy
Posted on: January 12, 2009
Here is a funny and feel good song from a Amitabh Bachchan movie called “Toofan” (1989). Few people remember this movie now, but I for one thought that the movie was fairly good by the standards of Amitabh Bachchan movies of those days. I in fact watched this movie more than once.
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