Archive for the ‘Artist century song in blog’ Category
Seeing that this blog has by now notched up over 6800 songs, it is natural that we tend to touch a few blog related milestones quite frequently.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Happy 83rd – the year of life.
And Happy 70th – the year of active career.
Lata Mangeshkar, born this day in 1929, started her singing career in 1942, the year she turned 13.
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Haan aawaaraa hoon
Posted on: September 20, 2012
We in this blog typically have two main causes of celebrations- one is blog century post and other is artist century post. We have so far seen 66 blog centuries. As many as 51 artists have completed their centuries (one of them in two different categories, viz as a singer and as a music director).
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Dilruba aa meri baahon mein aa
Posted on: September 19, 2012
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Today (19 september) is the birthday of Lucky Ali (19 september 1958), son of Mehmood, who acted in a few Hindi movies before becoming a noted singer and composer.
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“Chaandni” (1989) was a Yashraj Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Yash Chopra. The movie had Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Sridevi, Bharat Bhushan, Juhi Chawla, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher, Beena, Renu Arya, Mita Vashist, Manju Maini, Asha Sharma, Anant Mahadevan, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Shyam Arora, Manohar Singh, Achala Sachdev, Lalit Tiwari, Suhas Joshi, Ram Maini, Idris Malik, etc in it.
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Tum chaand ke saath chale aao
Posted on: September 10, 2012
“Aashiaana”(1952) was a Sabharwal’s production. It was directed by B Trilochan. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Iftekhar, Mohana, Randhir etc in it.
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When the musical bandwagon of this blog rolls on at its cruising speed then we move on at the rate of 100 songs per fortnight. The previous century was one fortnight ago. In other words, we complete yet another century of songs with this song.
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Teri nazron ka ishaara mil gaya
Posted on: August 29, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Perhaps there is something about me which makes me always root for the underdog in any situation. In the very first men’s singles Wimbledon tennis final I followed, I rooted for the 40-year old Ken Rosewall as he was brutally brushed aside by the 22-year old all-conquering Jimmy Connors.
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We in this blog like to celebrate milestones. The most frequent form of milestone that we achieve in the blog are century of songs. So far we have achieved as many as 65 such centuries.
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Paa laagoon kar joree re
Posted on: August 22, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Mahipal, a name that is so familiar as the actor behind the ‘Raaj Kavi Diwaakar’ in V Shantaram’s ‘Navrang’ (1959), as the healer Zabak in Basant Picture film ‘Zabak’ (1961), or the swashbuckling swordsman Paras in Movieland’s film ‘Parasmani’ (1963), and many more characters played by him in films with historical, mythological and religious themes. But not many people know that Mahipal Chandra Bhandari, a young lad of 23 from Jodhpur, made his debut in films both as an actor and a poet. His first film as an actor, ‘Nazraana’ (1942), a twin production in Hindi and Maarwari, turned out to be a flop, and it would not be for another 8 years, till 1950, that he would catch the attention of the industry and the audience alike, as a performer on the screen. But in the interim, his talent and his childhood interest is writing poetry, kept him busy writing lyrics for films like ‘Maali’ (1944) and ‘Aap Ki Sewa Mein’ (1947).
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