Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
“Niraalaa” (1950) is a movie starring very young Madubala and Dev Anand. And this movie also has some superb songs sung by a very young Lata under the music director of her mentor C Ramchandra.
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Ye haseen shaam gardish mein jaam
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Teerandaaz” (1955) is a movie starring Ajit, Madhubala, Jairaj, Kuldeep, Helen etc. This movie, which apparently was a B grade movie has passed into oblivion and its prints no longer seem to be in existence.
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Abhi shaam aayegi niklenge taare
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Samaadhi”(1950) was a movie starring Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaiwant. Few people today may be bothered about its story, but what songs this movie had ! Absolutely timess songs and a few of them in fact continue to influence Hindi movie songs even today. For instance, the song Gore gore o baanke chhore(Samadhi) is still popular among musical plagiarists for their remixing. When it comes to a patriotic song,Kadam kadam badhaaye jaa (Samadhi) is as iconic as they come.
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Aaja re pyaar pukaare
Posted on: March 9, 2011
“Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiyaa” (1966) had a story line that could send movie watchers a headache with its storyline. This movie, despite a good cast- Nutan, Dharmedra, Rehman etc, had a storyline that few people could digest, and few people did.
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Aurat ne janam diyaa mardon ko
Posted on: March 8, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
Ninety years ago, this day, the 8th of March, saw the birth of a certain Abdul Hayee in Ludhiana, Punjab.
It may seem like a routine event. After all, aren’t people born every day?
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Apne khayaalon ko samjhaa deejiye
Posted on: March 8, 2011
“Marine Drive” (1955) is a B grade movie starring Ajit and Bina Rai. And like all such movies, this movie too had A grade music. The movie and its music may not be very well known today, but the music is wonderful to listen to, if one digs up the songs of this movie.
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Mere pyaar mein tujhe kyaa milaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
I have little idea about this movie called “Maan” (1954). Apparently this movie have actors like Ajit, Kamlesh Kumari, Chitra, Jagirdaar in it.
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In olden days, tear jerker movies had a good market in India. These movies often had long suffering women shown to make sacrifices for no apparent reason and also singing nice songs in the bargain.
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Kyaa kyaa na log chal base
Posted on: March 4, 2011
“Hyderabad ki Naazneen” (1952) is an obscure movie that few people remember or know much about today.
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Basanti phool khiley
Posted on: March 4, 2011
“Uddhaar” (1949) is an obscure movie that few people know anything about. This movie had some big names of those days in it. It had Munawwar Sultana, Dev Anand, Nirupa Roy, Bharat Bhushan etc in it.
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