Archive for the ‘expression of love’ Category
Prem ki ho jai jai
Posted on: July 24, 2011
“Chandidas”(1934) was one of the earliest movies in which K L Saigal appeared. In this movie, he sang four songs. Three of them, which are relatively better known and are available on youtube have already been discussed in this blog.
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Ke aajaa teri yaad aayi
Posted on: July 23, 2011
When a normal human being misses his/her beloved, you expect them to bear it privately. But a Hindi movie hero/heroine missing his/her beloved decides to make a public spectacle of themselves. They quickly burst into a missing you song whose lyrics could be something like “Main yahaan hoon tu hai kahaan” or “Ab to aa jaa” etc. They go all over the town singing the song. One can expect them to be doing that in India, but imagine doing them in the streets of Venice, Italy and the local population not even batting their eyelids !
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Every “new” K L Saigal songs that are being discussed these days are like going into unchartered waters, because we are now discussing those K L saigal songs which are not all that commonly known. These are songs that were not played much during Radio Ceylon’s “Puraani filmon ke geet” programme, and these songs are not yet available on youtube.
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Kehti hai jhuki jhuki nazar
Posted on: July 22, 2011
I have listened to this song in the past, but I was not aware of any details of this song and that included the details about the singer too.
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Kyaa hamne bigaadaa hai
Posted on: July 21, 2011
We have come a long way in discussing K L Saigal songs. We have already discussed 85 out of 130 odd K L Saigal songs available. In addition,K L Saigal also sang in a few other languages, but that is beyond the scope of this blog.
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Tera husn rahe mera ishq rahe
Posted on: July 20, 2011
“Do Dil” (1965) is a movie starring Vishwajeet and Rajshree. Just as Shammi Kapoor movies had wonderful music composed by Shankar Jaikishan, Vishwajeet movies tended to have great music by Hemant Kumar. Of course the singing voices remained the same.
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Main kyun na naachoon aaj kaho jee
Posted on: July 18, 2011
“Paighaam” (1959)which was a Gemini Pictures productions, is a movie that had Dilip Kumar and Raj Kumar together for the first time. This big budget movie was directed by S S Vasan.
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I have discussed a song from “Kaajal” (1948) in the past, where I had mentioned that Wasti, Suraiyya and Jayant were the actors in this movie.
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Dil na jalaao door door se
Posted on: July 17, 2011
“Sim Sim Marjeena” (1958), as the name suggests, is a B grade movie based on the famous Arabian tale story of Alibaba and forty thieves. This movie had Mahipal,Shakeela,Hele, Heeralal,Maruti, Tiwari etc in it.
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Though the concept of playback singing was introduced in 1930s itself, but actors continued to sing their own songs till late 1940s. It was only in 1950s that the concept of singing actors finally gave way and playback singing finally became the norm.
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