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Todo todo todo dil ke taar
Posted on: December 29, 2011
“Amar Raj” (1946) is an obscure movie by now and little is known about this movie.
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“Nawaab Sahib” (1978) is an obscure movie, despite being a movie of recent vintage by the standards of this movie. This movie was clearly a B grade movie and it had small time non selling actors in it.
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“Amaanush” (1975) is a movie which was produced in Bangla as well as Hindi. The star cast as well as the music of the two versions were common. The star cast consisted of some big names of Bangla movies, viz Uttam Kumar, Anil Chatterjee, Manik Dutt,Utpal Dutt etc. Even Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of this movie was from Bangla background.
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Dil leke dil diya hai
Posted on: December 28, 2011
Love is the most common theme in Hindi movie songs. There are many variations of this theme and one of them is light teasing between lovers.
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Main jab gaaun geet suhaanaa
Posted on: December 28, 2011
Originally written by me, this writeup has subsequently been thoroughly revamped and rewritten by Sudhir, following his detailed and thorough investigation into this song
“Amar Raj” (1946) is a movie which was directed by Homi Wadia. The movie had Trilok Kapoor and Nirupa Roy from what little I can gather on internet.
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So jaa baaba mere so jaa
Posted on: December 27, 2011
Lullabies are a much loved category of songs in Hindi movies. Most lullabies are sung by female singers as one would expect. But there are exceptions where male singers too have sung lullabies.
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Meri jholi ko bhar de
Posted on: December 27, 2011
“Maan Ke Aansoo” (1959) is a movie which had actors like Ajit, Nalini Jaiwant, Lalita Pawar, Kammo, Agha, Jankidas, Tuntun etc in it. It was a Sharad Productions movie and it was directed by Dhirubhai Desai.
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When you seek to look for obscue songs from yesteryears, you often come across unheard of gems. Many a times, these songs are sung/ created by the usual suspects, but sometimes they are created by people we normally would not suspect of being able to sing songs, leave alone singing songs that can be regarded as outstanding.
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Naushad was born on 25th december. To mark this occasion, here is a song from “Sohni Mahiwal” (1958). This song is sung by Rafi, who collaboration with Naushad yielded several memorable songs.
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Ta ra ri aa ra ri
Posted on: December 25, 2011
If 24th december was the birthday of Rafi then his close musical associate Naushad was not too far behind. Naushad was born on 25th december !
So today (25th december) is the day when we in this blog will pay our musical tributes to Naushad, the great pioneer in the field of Hindi movie music.
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