Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
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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Chain nahin aaye kahaan dil jaaye
Posted on: March 3, 2011
Lyrics of this song have been provided by Atif M, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a new visitor of this blog.
“Samundar” (1957) is movie that I knew nothing about till two years ago. Now I know this movie for its songs. I have already discussed two songs from this movie.
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Saajan ki galiyaan chhod chaley
Posted on: March 3, 2011
I am aware of two movies called “Baazaar”. One was released in 1949 and another in 1982.
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Lut gayi ummeedon ki duniyaa
Posted on: March 1, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is a forgotten movie which starred Rehman, Geeta Bali and a dog. Like the movie, its songs too are forgotten.
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Hans le gaa le o chaand mere
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Jeet” (1948) in this blog. Most of these songs were sung by Suraiyya, the then reigning acting-singing superstar. But this movie also had a new emerging voice that was tipped to go far. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar was also given an opportunity of playback singing in this movie.
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This post is written by Lalitha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular visitor of this blog
This is my first attempt at writing anything more than a couple of sentences on the Internet, and the thought fills me with trepidation. In a rash moment, I practically offered to do one for this blog, and so here I am, penning a few thoughts down, and hoping that I don’t sound like a rambling old idiot!
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Lyrics of this song have been provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
“Adaa” (1951) is a by now forgotten movie that had Shekhar, Rehana, Gope, Madan Puri etc in it. I had discussed two songs from this movie in the past. Sudhir recently came across another song from this movie and he pointed this song out to me.
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