Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Oodi oodi chhaayi ghataa
Posted on: August 10, 2011
Though I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Amar” (1954) already, I was not aware of this song till its lyrics were sent to me by Atif M.
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This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Hansraj Behl had a career in Hindi films that lasted from 1946 to 1979, and he was one of the more successful and popular music directors in the post independence years. Creator of many iconic songs in the 50s and 60s, Hansraj Bahl’s music has a semi classical touch, with roots in his earlier training in classical music. He has been a very active music director for Punjabi movies also, and there is a large number of very popular Punjabi films songs that are composed by him.
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Dil ki lagan sainyya jaane naa
Posted on: August 9, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The decades of 50s and 60s are known as the golden age of Hindi film music, and that for a good reason. The quality of music and songs was absolutely superb, no matter what the content of the films used to be. One just has to untwine one thread on this time line, and immediately there is a gem of a song to be heard. Maybe it is an obscure film, maybe the song itself is unheard, or not heard for ages. Maybe the sound of the song is such that the first reaction is, whose voice is this, whose composition is this. But just let the song play and simply listen to it, and before long you will start loving it, and now the reaction would be, where has been this gem hiding all these years. Atul ji has written over and over again about this phenomena, about finding unheard gems from obscure movies, with every plunge one takes into this ocean of music.
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“Bhai Bhai” (1956) is a movie that starred Ashok Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Nirupa Roy,Nimmi,Shyama, Beena, Daisy Irani, Master Chhotu etc. This movie , which was directed by Nitai Palit had some very nice songs in it. I have already discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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“Rajdhani” (1956) is a by now obscure movie. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Nimmi in lead roles.
I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie. This song is a rare song which is not available on youtube as far as I know.
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Thukra ke hamen yoon na jaa
Posted on: August 7, 2011
“Madhur Milan”(1955) is an obscure B grade movie and little is known about this movie. This movie apparently had Nigar Sultana and Mahipal in lead roles.
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Aankhon se door door
Posted on: August 6, 2011
“Mashaal” (1950) is known mainly for the song ( Upar gagan vishaal )that announced the arrival of Manna Dey as a playback singer of note. But these movie also had other nice songs in it, even though these songs, unlike the Manna Dey song, have been forgotten with time.
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De de mora kangnaa
Posted on: August 6, 2011
“Rajdhani”(1956) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had actors like Sunil Dutt,Nimmi, Johny Walker,Durga Khote,Purnima,Naaz,Tiwari etc in it. This N C Films movie was directed by Naresh Saigal.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The film Luteraa (1965) has seven wonderful songs, five of which are already discussed on this blog. This is the sixth song from this movie. This is a dance number by Helen, and the singing voice is that of Lata Mangeshkar. Luteraa is a grade B pirates adventure story, starring Prithviraj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Nishi, Helen, Hiralal, Jeevan, Maruti, Bela Bose and others. The storyline is convoluted with multiple parallel threads in progress. There are lost siblings, pirates, palace intrigues, battles at sea and what else not in the story plot.
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Saanwre saanwre
Posted on: August 3, 2011
This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and they do not have much appreciation of their rich legacy, so showing callous disregard to such great works of art will naturally follow.
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