Archive for the ‘Hemant Kumar songs’ Category
This song from “Baat ek raat ki” (1962) is regarded as a Hemant Kumar classic. This song is picturised on Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman. Technically this song should be called a duet because Suman Kalyanpur’s voice is also there,singing for Waheeda Rahman, but she sings hardly one line or two.
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If one wants to watch a more genteel version of teasing songs than Shammi Kapoor vintage, then one need not go to songs that were sung twenty years earlier. One can go and listen to songs from a contemporary movie called “twenty years later” viz “bees saal baad”.
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There are many songs in which hero teases the lady in Bollywood movies. The degree of teasing depends on the hero as well as on the singer. With heroes like Dharmendra, Shammi Kapoor singing in the voices of Kishore Kumar or Rafi, you can expect teasing of a vigorous nature, where the hero would shake up everything up in sight.
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Ya dil ki suno duniyawaalon
Posted on: December 22, 2008
Hemant Kumar was a versatile playback singer as well as music director. He was perhaps the only specialist music director who used to sing as playback singer for other music directors too.
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This superb movie called “Khamoshi” not only had a good story line and good actors, it had good music as well. Hemant Kumar’s music and Gulzar’s lyrics were just out of this world.
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Jaag dard-e-ishq jaag
Posted on: December 18, 2008
“Anarkali” was a movie that was full of memorable songs that continue to enthrall its listeners even today. Several songs from this movie have attained iconic status by now.
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Yaad kiya dil ne kahaan ho tum
Posted on: December 18, 2008
It is a very old song, but very much a gold standard song. I have listened to this song for a long time and liked it very much. Sung by Hemant Kumar and Lata, this is such a lovely “chayageet” kind of song, ideal listening at sleep times, though one can enjoy it anytime, as befits any timeless song, which it certainly is.
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Hai apna dil to aawara
Posted on: December 1, 2008
Mumbai locals are the lifeline of the residents of that bustling metropolis. People have been travelling in Mumbai locals for last 60-70 years, ever since these locals were introduced.
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Legend has it that Salil Chaudhari, the leading music director of 1950s refused to take Kishore Kumar seriously on finding out that Kishore Kumar was untrained in classical music. But when he listened to Kishore Kumar’s voice, Salil Chaudhari changed his opinion and agreed to use Kishore Kumar’s voice in his forthcoming movie called “Naukri”, where Kishore Kumar incidentally was acting too.
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Nain so nain nahin milaao
Posted on: September 12, 2008
“Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje” was a musical blockbuster of its time. This movie had many songs that broke new ground in the history of Bollywood filmy music.
One of the memorable songs from this movie was this duet sung by Lata and Hemant Kumar. And just notice the lyrics. Hasrat Jaipuri, considered a shayar, has written this song where you cannot find any trace of urdu shayari. The words are written in simple semi rural dialect of Hindi spoken in UP.
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