Archive for the ‘Mukesh songs’ Category
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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Rut albeli mast samaan
Posted on: September 16, 2009
When one watches old Bollywood songs, one can often see things that then existed at that time. For instance, watching the Bombay of old Bollywood movies give us a glimpse of that city as it then was.
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Bahe naa kabhi nain se neer
Posted on: September 12, 2009
“Vidya” (1948) must be one of the first movies in which Suraiyya and Dev Anand were paired together. And this movie was a musical blockbuster too.
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This movie “Meri Bhaabhi” (1969) is an obscure movie despite boasting of names like Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rehman. This tear jerker movie was obviously a failure at the box office when it was released.
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This song as well as its movie is as obscure as a movie and a movie can get. “Flat no. 9” (1961) is the name of the movie.This movie is obviously a C grade movie which had Ashok Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Jagdish Sethi (?),Dinesh Kumar Tiwari (?),Helen etc in its cast.
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In Bollywood movies, poor hero ( during his childhood) typically would earn his livelihood by acting as a shoeshine boy, whereas his mother would sit on a singer machine and sew clothes to earn her livelihood.
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Do ankhiyaan jhuki jhuki si
Posted on: September 7, 2009
I have discovered that “Prempatra” (1962) is a movie that had some sweet melodious songs in it that were composed with loving care by Salil Chaudhary.
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In Bollywood movies, rolypoly characters are mostly used for comic relief.
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I just realised that I had not posted a Mukesh song in this blog for some time. So here is a Mukesh song. And what a song !
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I read in a newspaper recently that Gulshan Baawra died in Mumbai at the age of 72.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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