Archive for the ‘Lata solo’ Category
Tere sab gham mile mujhko
Posted on: September 21, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Hamdard” (1953). Now I have some information about this movie. “Hamdard” (1953) starred Nimmi, Shekhar and Smriti Biswas, and from the songs, the story appears a love triangle involving the abovementioned three actors.
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I have posted a song from “Teen Batti Chaar Raastaa” (1953) in the past. This movie was the story of a house maid, who is as plain looking as many house maids, but with a golden voice, and many people who listen to her voice on Radio think that she must be an attractive looking lady.
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I have posted several “lullabies” (lori) in this blog. This song too is a lori, but with a major difference from the normal lallabies.
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In late 1940s and early 1950s, actors were shown seated at the piano and singing a song. Now singing a song and playing a piano simultaneously is a superhuman job, but Bollywood actors would be shown doing that routinely.
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Aa jaao tadapte hain armaan
Posted on: September 19, 2009
The more songs I post, the more I realise how small is the collection of songs in this blog vis a vis the sheer volume of quality songs that are not yet covered. I am approaching 2000 songs in this blog, but I feel that I have only scratched the surface so far.
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Prabhu tero naam
Posted on: September 18, 2009
These days, I have been posting songs of “Ham Dono” (1961) and waxing eloquent about these songs. I have so far posted 5 songs from this movie, and every one of these songs is outstanding.
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There are many people who may think that this is a non filmy prayer. That is how well known this song is.
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Rote rote guzar gayi raat re
Posted on: September 14, 2009
“Buzdil” (1951) was a movie starring Premnath and Nimmi and Kishore Sahu. Yes, those were the days when Premnath used to act as hero in Bollywood movies.
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Mast pawan hai chanchal dhaara
Posted on: September 14, 2009
“Jeet” (1949) was a movie starring Suraiyya and Dev Anand. Second lead was played by Madan Puri and Suraiyya Chaudhari, apparently.
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“Kavi Kalidas” (1959) was a movie that was not a mainstream movie, rather the so called B grade movie. These were low budget movies whose subjects were often mythology . This particular movie, as its name suggests was the tale of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
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