Archive for the ‘"Panchchi" song’ Category
I have remarked in the past that “Bhakt Surdas” (1942) is a treasure of great K L Saigal songs. Correction- It has great songs, not just by the great man, but also by the female lead of the movie. Yes, Khurshid, the female lead of this movie also shines with her singing in this movie.
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Binaa pankhh panchhi hoon main
Posted on: May 31, 2011
“Tansen”(1943) is a movie starring K L Saigal, Kamla Chatterji, Khurshid, Mubarak ,Nagendra, Bhagwan, Raman etc. This movie was produced by Ranjit Movietone and it was directed by Jayant Desai.
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Udte huye panchhi
Posted on: February 21, 2011
Suraiyya sang her first playback song for another actress at the age of 13. That was for Mehtab who was then 17 years of age. Mehtab (who incidentally was K Asif’s wife), on finding that her playback was being given by a 13 year old kid, got mad at her producers.
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Most of the songs that Suraiyya sang in her career were picturised on herself. But there was a stage, in the beginning of her career,where she sang for other actresses too. It was during early 1940s.
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O panchhi pyaare saanjh sakhaare
Posted on: August 13, 2010
When it comes to songs of the golden era, I have certain observations. One of these observations is that every movie had several nice songs. Some of the songs went on to become popular but even those songs which failed to become popular are worth listening to. In many cases, they may even be as good as, if not better, than the more popular songs of that movie.
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In Bollywood movies, movie makers tend to think that teasing is same as romancing, though in real life, the two are regarded as poles apart.
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Bappi Lahiri is today remembered as the person who triggered degradation of Bollywood music with his “disco” music. But that is not how he began his career. Bappi Lahiri began his career by composing some outstanding music in his initial movies, viz “Zakhmee” (1975), “Chalte Chalte” (1976) etc.
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I post many songs in this blog that I describe as timeless classics. I am sure such songs have some special qualities that ensures this, otherwise we also have songswhich are forgotten almost as soon as they are released.
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TV serial makers these days tend to take the title of some old movie and use it as the title of their serials. “Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi”, for instance, was a movie of the same name in 1970. Similarly, “Hare kaanch ki choodiyaan” was a movie of 1967.
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Jaa re jaa re ud jaa re panchchi
Posted on: March 25, 2009
When I read the title of the song, I thought it must be a clone of the “chal ud ja re panchi” song. And I was not expecting much.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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