Archive for the ‘Manna Dey songs’ Category
Kaanhaa boley naa
Posted on: February 7, 2011
Listening to well known popular songs is always a nice experience. Discovering songs unknown to us and listening to them is also a wonderful experience.
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Baahon ko zaraa lehraa de
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Here is a lesser known song from a lesser known movie. At least this movie and this song is lesser known to me, and that is the reason why no songs from this movie were posted in this blog till now.
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Ye hawaa ye nadi ka kinaaraa
Posted on: February 3, 2011
The lyrics of this song is provided by Atif M, a new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs
Prima facie, this duet song has similar initial words as the “Dilli Ka Thug” (1958) song (ye raaten ye mausam nadi ka kinaara ), but the two songs are entirely different songs even though they share the same lyricist, music director and the female singer.
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Hain pyaar ke do matwaale
Posted on: February 3, 2011
Though I have vaguely heard of this movie called “Apradhi Kaun”, I was not much aware of what this movie was all about. I just stumbled upon its songs and that got me interested in this movie.
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Jaane waale sipaahi se poochho
Posted on: January 31, 2011
“Usne Kahaa Thhaa” (1960) is a critically acclaimed movie starring Sunil Dutt and Nanda. And importantly for this blog, the movie has some nice songs in it as well. I have discussed as many as three songs from this movie already. here is the fourth song from this movie.
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Re moorakh tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: January 29, 2011
I am not much aware of this movie called “Amaanat”(1955) which is one of four movies of this name, others being “Amaanat” (1943), “Amaanat” (1977) and “Amaanat” (1994).
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Jaago aur jagaao
Posted on: January 17, 2011
Qawwalis are normally the longest songs in Hindi movies. But sometimes stage songs also give qawwalis a run for their money as far as their duration is concerned.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Nishan” (1965) is a B grade film, produced under the banner of Wadia Brothers Productions, Bombay, and directed by Aspi Irani. The star line up include Sheikh Mukhtaar,Sanjeev Kumar, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Helen, Mukri, Sulochana, Heeralal, Shammi, Ratnamala, Uma Dutt, Mitthoo Miyan etc. The film boasts of some very hummable and memorable songs. Lyrics for the songs are created by Jawed Anwar and the music composition is by Usha Khanna. It is interesting to note that Jawed Anwar is the pen name of Manohar Lal Khanna, the real life father of Usha Khanna.
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Everyone is aware that 1957 saw the movie “Mother India” in which Nargis played the central character. Few people know that the same year also saw the release of another movie called “Miss India”. And guess who played the central character in this movie ? It was none other than Nargis herself !
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Nirbal se ladaayi balwaan ki
Posted on: December 3, 2010
The movie “Toofaan Aur Diyaa” (1956) opens with this song as the credits roll on the screen. This song, in addition to being the movie opening song and the theme song, has to be one of the most inspirational songs of all time.
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