Archive for the ‘Hemant Kumar songs’ Category
“Mamtaa” (1966) is a movie that is full of great songs. I have posted four songs from this movie, and here is another song.
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Chal ri chali chal naiyya
Posted on: June 9, 2010
“Sardaar” (1955) is an obscure movie and very little details are available about this movie. Even its songs are extremely difficult to come by though the songs of this movie were popular during its days.
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Raah bani khud manzil
Posted on: April 28, 2010
I have posted three songs from “Kohraa” (1964). Each of these songs are immortal songs that one can listen to any number of times.
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For those who are into trivia, here is an interesting bit of information. Hemant Kumar sang just four songs under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan. All these songs were sung in 1953 and 1954. One of these songs was in “Shikast” (1953)- “Ham kathputle kaath ke” and another was in “Patita” (1953)-“Yaad kiyaa dil ne kahaan ho tum”. These songs are already posted in this blog.
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I have posted one song from “Mehandi” (1958) earlier. Here is another song from this movie.
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Log peete hain ladkhadaate hain
Posted on: December 18, 2009
This song is an archtypical Hemant Kumar song that I have heard several times. But apart from the knowledge of this being a song sung by Hemant Kumar, I was blank about any other details of this song.
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Aasmaan aasmaan tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: November 24, 2009
In Bollywood movies, when boy first sees a girl, he would sing a teasing song addressed to her. She would take exception, naturally, but later on, she would fall in love with him and then they would sing a duet, running round trees.
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I had never heard of this movie called “Pehli Jhalak”, but there was one movie by this name in 1954. And now that I have stumbled upon the songs of this movie, I have realised that this movie has some lovely songs in it.
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Chandaniya nadiya beech nahaaye
Posted on: October 21, 2009
When I had started this blog with the aim of posting old classic songs, I had assessed that if I posted about 2500 songs, I would have covered them all. How wrong I was ! I have already posted over 2000 songs, and I still continue to stumble upon “new” songs almost every day. And I still feel like I am only scratching the surface. I have yet to go deeper.
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“Sailaab” (1956) is an obscure movie and so is the case with its music.
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