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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
“Adaa” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie that had Shekhar, Rehana, Gope, Madan Puri etc in it. I had discussed two songs from this movie in the past. Sudhir recently came across another song from this movie and he pointed this song out to me.
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Loot liyo mandheer
Posted on: February 23, 2011
A few hours ago, I came across a lovely song from a very old movie. Here is this song, which is sung by Kanan Devi, and I guess that this song is picturised on her as well. Aarzoo Lucknowi is the lyricist and music is composed by R C Boral.
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Though Suraiyya sang majority of her songs for herself, she famously did playback singing for Mehtab during early 1940s, when Mehtab was 17-18 years of age and Suraiyya herself was barely 13-14.
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Udte huye panchhi
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Suraiyya sang her first playback song for another actress at the age of 13. That was for Mehtab who was then 17 years of age. Mehtab (who incidentally was K Asif’s wife), on finding that her playback was being given by a 13 year old kid, got mad at her producers.
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Saajan ghar aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2011
“Station Master” (1942) is a movie that had Prem Adeeb and Ratnamala in lead roles. It was in this movie that Suraiyya, then 13 years of age, made her Hindi movie debut under the name of Baby Suraiyya. It was in this movie that she got to sung her first song, which was picturised on herself.
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“Anuraag” (1956) was a movie produced by Mukesh, who those days was toying with the idea of becoming an Actor-Singer and was producing movies as well.
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This post is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The golden age of Bollywood film music is studded with many a stars who have been instrumental in creating wondrous melodies in all moods and rhythms. This includes stellar performers in all aspects of music, i.e. lyrics, composition and singing. As one looks back at the decades of 1930s to 1970s, there are many well known names that are considered shining stars of Hindi film music.
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Babu bol kaisaa rokaa
Posted on: February 18, 2011
“Pyaase Panchhi” (1960) is a rather B grade movie where Mehmood was the hero opposite Ameeta. Going by the fact that Mehmood subsequently made his mark not as a hero but as a comedian, it appears to me that this movie may not have done well at the box office.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
For a Bollywood old-song buff like me, one of the biggest pleasures of checking out youtube is to discover new “old” songs. Over the years I have not just listened to hundreds of songs that I already knew but have discovered several new “old” songs that have absolutely delighted me. The “suggestions” feature on youtube ensures that I spend several unintended hours listening to songs.
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Meri jaan tum pe sadke
Posted on: February 14, 2011
“Saawan Ki Ghataa” (1966) is one of the lesser known movies as far as I am concerned. This movie had Manoj Kumar and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles.
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