Archive for the ‘Lata song’ 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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Kahaan ho tum zaraa aawaaz do
Posted on: September 20, 2009
“Malhaar” (1951) had some wonderful songs in it. I have posted a couple of songs in this blog and I need to post more songs from this movie.
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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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I had commented in the past that S D Burman had used many singers to sing for Dev Anand. In addition to Kishore Kumar and Rafi, S D Burman used the voice of Hemant Kumar and Manna Dey as play back singers for Dev saab. If one looks at movies of 1940s, one finds that some more singers sang for Dev Anand.
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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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I have mentioned in the past that “Baija Baawraa” (1952) was a musical blockbuster. Others have remarked that this movie in fact set the musical standards for Bollywood movies.
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