Archive for the ‘Mukesh solo’ Category
Singer Mukesh, who had become a playback singer by early 1950s was trying to make it big as an actor-singer a la K L Saigal in 1950s. So much so that he began to produce his own movies in which he acted as hero and sang his own songs. But his ventures into movie making ended up in disaster as he not only lost money and ended up on the verge of bankruptcy, his career as a playback singer too almost came to an end because he stopped getting singing assignments from outside movies.
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“Anuraag” (1956) was a movie produced by Mukesh, who those days was toying with the idea of becoming an Actor-Singer and was producing movies as well.
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Mukesh was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) in late 1930s by Motilal (a distant relative) who had seen him singing a song at Motilal’s sister’s wedding. While at Bombay, Mukesh got the opportunity to act and sing in a movie called “Nirdosh” (1941). This movie also had Nalini Jaiwant.It is interesting to note that Mukesh first acted in movies in 1940s, whereas his grandson (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is acting in movies more than six decades later. Read the rest of this entry »
Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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Dil jo bhi kahegaa maanenge
Posted on: December 17, 2010
There are many movies that have one song that included the name of the title in its lyrics. I describe such songs as title songs.
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Gusse mein jo nikhraa hai
Posted on: December 16, 2010
I have been discussing the remaining songs of “Dil Hi To Hai” (1963) these days. In this series here is the ninth song from this movie.
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Taaraa toote duniyaa dekhe
Posted on: December 15, 2010
Here is a song from “Malhaar” (1951) that is regarded as a timeless classic.
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This is a very well known song- in fact an iconic song. This song is a bullock cart song sung by Mukesh. All these days I thought that this song was from a Raj Kapoor movie. So it came as a surprise to me when I realised that this song is actually from a Dilip Kumar movie.
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In 1950s, Hindi movies tended to have intoduction songs in them in which the hero introduced himself and described his philosophy in life.
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I regard Ravi as the creator of iconic songs. Whatever the occasion, one can have a few iconic songs from Ravi for the occasion. Ravi indeed has a few iconic Deewali songs under his belt, as can be expected.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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