Archive for the ‘C Ramchandra songs as a singer’ Category
“Khidki”(1948) is a movie starring Rehana and Jawahar Kaul. The songs of this movie are of great historical importance because all the singers who would soon become all time legends sang in this movie.
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I have been posting the songs of “Sargam” (1950) here these days. It is while posting these songs that I am discovering these songs for the first time. What wonderful songs these are ! And I am also surprised at the number of such songs. There are at least a dozen such songs, and all of them just mind boggling. And it is just as mind boggling to realise that this movie has been forgotten today.
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Many people, including me, may only be aware of “Sargam” (1979), which had some nice songs in them. But there was another movie of this name, viz “Sargam” (1950). This older movie was one of the biggest hit movies of its time and its songs were just amazing.
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I have posted two songs from “Sargam” (1950) and I am realising that this movie was an amazing music blockbuster. What awesome songs this movie had ! And this movie was a big hit too.
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Main hoon ek khalaasi
Posted on: January 22, 2010
Among the major contributors in the development of Bollywood mov ie music, C Ramchandra’s name will always figure very prominently. The kind of music that he came up with is simply mind boggling. On the one hand he composed songs based on classical music as well as Indian folk music, and on the other hand he also composed songs based on western music.
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Ho Dil kaahu ko deo naa
Posted on: July 30, 2009
When one talks of “Nadiya Ke Paar”, one is mostly reminded of the Rajshri Productions movie of 1980s. But there was another movie of this name in 1948.
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How the songs of “Azaad” (1955) were composed in an interesting tale in itself.
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Jawaani ki rail chali jaaye re
Posted on: June 19, 2009
Stumbling upon songs that I never heard before is nothing new for me. But it looks like this stumbling is something different. I have really stumbled upon a rich vein of old classics this time.
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Soorat ho to aisi ho
Posted on: May 10, 2009
I have posted many songs in this blog which I call “teasing” songs, viz songs where the girl gets teased by the boy.
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It is widely believed by people that western music was introduced in bollywood in 1960s by R D Burman and that Hinglish lyrics began to be used in 1980s. One is way off the mark if one believes so.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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