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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When the system of playback singing started in Hindi films in early 30s it paved the way for playback singers like Rajkumari, Amirbai Karnataki, Zohrabai Ambalewaali and Shamshad Begum in becoming the top playback singers by 40s. With the emergence of new playback singers in the late 40s like Geeta Dutt and Lata Mangeshkar, demand for playback singers with heavy and high throated voices were on the decline, relegating them to the background. The only exception to this trend was Shamshad Begum who weathered the ‘onslaught’ of Mangeshkars in the 50s and remained fairly active up to early 60s.
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Aayi baisaakhi bagiyaa mehki
Posted on: April 13, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Greetings and best wishes to all, for the festival of Baisakhi today.
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Tujh ko yoon dekha hai
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Chand Grahan” was a movie that was made sometime in 1970s but it never got released. It was only in 1997 that the audio of this movie were finally released. By that time the singer (Mukesh) as well as the music director (Jaidev) were no longer around.
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Ham kyun rote hain raaton ko
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Darbaar” (1955) was a Golden Movie production. It was directed by V Vakil. The movie had Mahipal, Chitra, Sunder, Tiwari, Kammo, Kamal, Niranjan Sharma etc in it, which suggests that it was a B grade movie.
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Hotel ka kinaara ho
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Gunsundari” (1948) is an obscure movie by now. But as far as we are concerned, we know a great deal about this movie, thanks to the details provided by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our beloved inhouse encyclopaedia. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Ab na been bajaa
Posted on: April 13, 2013
“Sharbati Aankhen” (1945) is a very obscure movie by now and little information is avaialble on this movie. The most comprehensive information on this movie is available in this blog, thanks to our own beloved inhouse encyclopaedia, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh. Here is what he has to say about this movie:
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Ho nahin sakta
Posted on: April 12, 2013
This article is written by Peevesie, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Memory is a strange thing. On one hand one can remember hundreds of movies, their plotlines, who starred in what, and so many obscure details about them. We can remember so many songs, their complete lyrics, who sang it, what is the picturization, everything. But right when we need our memory to actually work – exams and birthdays – it goes on strike.
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Dekh hamen muskaaye kyun
Posted on: April 12, 2013
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributo to this blog.
Kedar Sharma, a career that started with a paint brush, and then went on to scale exceptional heights of creative cinema, and in the process helped to start many a famous careers in the industry. The eminent showman, Raj Kapoor, revered him as his guru. Many a famous artists made their debut in his films – Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Mala Sinha, Bharat Bhushan, Tanuja etc. He was the inspiration and the encouragement for a whole generation of performers and directors in the early decades of the industry.
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