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Man letaa hai angdaayi
Posted on: September 13, 2010
I have so far posted 11 songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) and I wondered if there was any worthwhile song left from this movie that needed to be posted. Of course there was ! Here is this delightful song sung by Suraiyya which I had never heard before till now !
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Nain mile chain kahaan
Posted on: September 12, 2010
I have posted five songs from “Basant Bahaar”(1956) in this blog in the past. It has been pointed out to me that a memorable song from this movie is not yet posted.
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“Daal Mein Kaala” (1964) is a movie that had Kishore Kumar and Nimmi in lead roles. This movie as well as its songs are by now obscure.
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Ye jawaani hai deewaani
Posted on: September 10, 2010
In the golden era of Hindi movie music, songs played a very important role in the success of the movies. In fact, many of the actors, especially male actors owe their success to the singing of the leading male singer of the time.
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I am not much clued in on the movie “House No. 44” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik in lead roles.
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Hamko tumhaaraa hi aasraa
Posted on: September 10, 2010
Rafi is today a legend of Hindi movie music but he too was a struggler for much of 1940s. It was only from 1946 onwards that he began to get songs to sing.
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Main dil mein dard basaa laayi
Posted on: September 10, 2010
I have so far posted nine songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) in this blog. And there are still quite a few songs from this movie that are yet to be posted ! Seriously !
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“Free Love” (1974) was not a sleazy movie, despite its title. It was a C grade movie though and it had Kiran Kumar and Yogita Bali in lead roles. The movie sank without trace. I for one never knew in 1974 that a movie of this name was doing the rounds in movie halls. In my town this movie was never released.
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Tumse izhaar e haal kar baithe
Posted on: September 9, 2010
There is one genre of movies that is popularly known as Muslim socials. These are love stories among Muslim characters. These movies tend to have spectacular music in it typically composed by Ravi, Naushad,Roshan, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc. The lyrics of these songs are quite poetic with reference to words like “hizaab”, “Bahaar”, “Shokhi”,”mehboob” etc.
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Shammi Kapoor made his debut in early 1950s and for the first few years of his career he was largely a nobody. In his movies, he would try to ape the mannerisms of his elder brother Raj Kapoor.
It was with “Tumsa Nahin Dekha” (1957) that Shammi Kapoor discovered his true self. It was in this movie that we first saw Shammi Kapoor look and act like the Shammi Kapoor that we so love and adore to this day.
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