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Kal ke chaand aaj ke sapne
Posted on: September 20, 2011
While discussing lori (lullaby) songs, I have mentioned that most lullabies are sung by female singers and picturised on actresses playing mother to some tiny tot. But it does not mean that there have not been lories sung by male singers. There may be just a few such songs but they are there.
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“Bahu” (1955) is a movie which was produced by P R Films. It was directed by Shakti Samanta. The movie had Karan Dewan, Usha Kiran, Shashikala, Pran, Mumtaz Begum, Johnny Walker, Bipin Gupta, Mehmood, Kundan etc in it.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a movie produced by N C Films. It was directed by Naresh Saigal. This movie had Sunil Dutt, Purnima, Naaz, Johnny Walker, Nimmi, Durga Khote, Tiwari etc in it. This movie has been by and large forgotten by now and most of the songs of this song have suffered the same fate.
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Idhar to aao mere sarkaar
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Aadhi Raat” (1950) is a movie which was a Kuldip pictures production. It was directed by S K Ojha. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Nargis in lead roles. But if IMDB is to be believed then Cuckoo, Jeewan and Kuldip Kaur were the stars of this movie. 🙂
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Zindagi sehra bhi hai
Posted on: September 9, 2011
In this blog, we sometimes discuss songs that despite being great ones were excluded from the movie. And they we give vents to our feelings on the matter.
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Aajaa ree aa nindiyaa tu aa
Posted on: September 9, 2011
When I saw the lyrics of this song (sent by Prakashchandra), I felt that this song was discussed long back. But despite my thorough checking, I drew a blank. So here was another well known song that had somehow remained undiscussed all these days, while I was under the impression that I had already discussed it.
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The original “Devdas” was produced in 1935. The next Devdas came up exactly twenty years later, in 1955.
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Jo mujhe bhulaake chale gaye
Posted on: September 7, 2011
“Sangeeta” (1950) is a movie produced by Sudha Pictures and directed by Ramanlal Desai. This movie had Shyam, Suraiyya, Nigar Sultana, Mumtaz Ali, Pran, Ram Singh, Radakrishnan etc in it.
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“Bees Saal Baad” (1962) is a timeless classic, moviewise as well as music wise. Four well known songs from this movie have been discussed in this blog in the past.
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I tend to get confused a lot about the movies “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” (1967) and Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968). “Bahaaron Ke Sapne” is a Rajesh Khanna- Asha Parekh with R D Burman’s music whereas “Bahaaron Ki Manzil” (1968) have Dharmendra and Meena Kumari in lead roles and it has music by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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