Archive for the ‘“chaand” song’ Category
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
There are many ways in which I get to learn of songs that are new to me.
I discover them on youtube or I sometimes find them on a blog (Atul’s blog is a very rich source for this purpose 🙂 ).
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Hans le gaa le o chaand mere
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Jeet” (1948) in this blog. Most of these songs were sung by Suraiyya, the then reigning acting-singing superstar. But this movie also had a new emerging voice that was tipped to go far. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar was also given an opportunity of playback singing in this movie.
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Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
It may be unimaginable today for the present generation, but when India became independent over six decades ago, the country was industrially undeveloped and there was hardly any infrastructure to speak of. Indian leadership of that time decided that India needed to adopt the Soviet Union model of planned economy for nation building. Accordingly, there used to be five year plans those days and based on the decisions taken for these five year plans, various infrastructure projects were undertaken.
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I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bandi” (1957) in the past. Here is a song from this movie that begins immediately after the opening credits are over. So this song just misses out from becoming a movie opening song.
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“Heer” (1956) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Nutan in lead roles.
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Ye chaand sitaare kyaa jaanen
Posted on: January 2, 2011
“Khoobsoorat” (1952) is one of the obscure movies with Madan Mohan’s music in it. I have little idea about the cast of this movie, but I find that this movie has a song sung by Suraiyya. This tells me that Suraiyya was clearly there in this movie as the leading lady. And this also tells me that Madan Mohan in that case had a few of his songs sung by Suraiyya too.
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Mere chaand mere laal re
Posted on: December 19, 2010
Suraiyya was already a star (in singing as well as acting) when Lata was struggling to find a foothold in Hindi movie playback singing. When she established herself in late 1940s, she soon became the number one and never looked back since.
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O chaand jahaan wo jaayen
Posted on: December 15, 2010
What a delightful song it is ! In this song, two ladies are singing about their beloved. I hope they are not singing about the same person, though knowing Hindi movies, a situation like this is not uncommon in Hindi movies.
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Songs in the old days were often like works of art that were carefully crafted by master craftsmen. Their artistry resulted in masterpieces that needed to be admired.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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