Archive for the ‘Actor-Singer song’ Category
It is a song that I call as a “Tonga” song, and for good reasons. The music of O P Nayyar very much reminds one of a horse hoofing along merrily drawing the tonga along. And the picturisation actually shows a tonga with Kishore Kumar and Chand Usmani as its passengers.
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Here is an awesome comedy cum romantic song from exactly 50 years ago. It is one song that richly deserves to be brought to the notice of Bollywood music fans.
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Hum matwaale naujawan
Posted on: November 30, 2008
I have read a lot about this song called “Hum matwaale naujawaan”. I was not much aware of this song. In fact, there is another song with similar lyrics sung by Rafi and Mukesh from a 1961 movie which itself is called “Hum matwaale naujawan”. But this song “hum matwaale naujawaan” is from an earlier movie called “Shararat” and is sung by Kishore Kumar.
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CAT cat, cat maane billi
Posted on: November 28, 2008
Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful comedy songs in his career. One of the first such songs, that won widespread public approval was in “Dilli ka thug”. In this movie, Kishore Kumar sang songs of different moods.
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Kishore Kumar is known for singing happy songs bubbling with joie de vivre. But that is not all. He could sing sad songs just as well. In fact, he has sung some wonderful sad songs reflecting different shades of sadness.
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In 1950s, there were a few movies, (now forgotten) that had Delhi (Dilli) in the title of the movie. These movies tended to have Kishore Kumar in the lead role. For example, Kishore Kumar acted in “Nai Dilli” (1957) as well as “Dilli ka thug” (1959).
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Chhoti si ye duniya
Posted on: November 19, 2008
Considering that it is Shailendra who wrote the lyrics and Shankar Jaikishan who composed the music, it could as well be Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, but here it is Kishore Kumar singing for himself in “Rangoli”.
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Gaana na aayaa bajaana naa aaya
Posted on: November 17, 2008
The movie ” Miss Mary” is a valuable gem that has been forgotten with the passage of time. I cannot believe that this movie is now 51 years old ! It means that almost everyone associated with this movie is no longer with us.
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Eena meena deeka
Posted on: November 13, 2008
In 1940s and 1950s, Bollywood music was undergoing a period of transition. New kinds of music were being introduced. One was the introduction of folk music from different parts of India. Another was a mixture of such folk music with classical music.
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Legend has it that Salil Chaudhari, the leading music director of 1950s refused to take Kishore Kumar seriously on finding out that Kishore Kumar was untrained in classical music. But when he listened to Kishore Kumar’s voice, Salil Chaudhari changed his opinion and agreed to use Kishore Kumar’s voice in his forthcoming movie called “Naukri”, where Kishore Kumar incidentally was acting too.
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