Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Jaao sidhaaro fateh paao
Posted on: September 30, 2012
Today (30 september) is the birth anniversary of Pt Feroz Dastoor (30 september 1919 – 9 may 2008). Very little information is available about him today but I came across a very informative article on him here.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Happy 83rd – the year of life.
And Happy 70th – the year of active career.
Lata Mangeshkar, born this day in 1929, started her singing career in 1942, the year she turned 13.
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Na apna thha jo kal guzra
Posted on: September 28, 2012
“Jeevan Rekha” (1974), though a recent movie by the standards of this blog, is one of the more obscure movies. Not much is known about this movie. It was produced by Parshuram J Devnani and directed by N Bhatt. The movie had Chandrashekhar, Ajit, Farida Jalal, K. N. Singh, Pran, Farida Jalal, Tabrez, Jalal Agha, Keshto Mukherjee, Asit Sen, Manmohan etc in it.
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Today (28 september) is the birthday anniversary of Lata (28 september 1929). There is little that has not been said and written about her over the past last seven decades that she has been active as a playback singer. She had dominated Hindi movie playback scene and she is the most figured singer in this blog as well.
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Kahin ho na mohalle mein halla
Posted on: September 27, 2012
Today (27 september) is the 8th death anniversary of Shobha Gurtu (8 february 1925- 27 september 2004). Born as Bhanumati Shirodkar, Shobha Gurtu earned her fame as a leading Thumri singer of her time. She became Shobha Gurtu after marrying Vishwanath Gurtu.
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“Deedaar” (1970) was produced and directed by Jugal Kishore. This B grade movie had Anjana Mumtaz, Dheeraj Kumar, Premendra, Badri Prasad, Kumud Tripathi, Leela Mishra, Wasti, Leela Misra, Habib, K.N.Singh, Jayashree T, Meenaxi, Mirza Musharraf, Brahmachari etc in it.
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Different people like different kinds of songs. When I was young, I loved to listen to light hearted and playful songs especially those sung by Kishore Kumar. Now I find that my taste has become more diversified. 🙂 I now like songs of lots of genre.
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Naghma e dil suna suna tu
Posted on: September 24, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This blog has crossed the figure of 6700 songs which have been discussed during the last 4 years 2 months. This prompted me to turn to statistics page of the blog. I counted that this blog has so far covered 298 music directors (MDs), 234 lyricists and 393 singers. These are significant figures compared with the total songs covered in the blog.
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Ye duniya bewafaai ki
Posted on: September 23, 2012
Today (23 september) is the death anniversary of Rajinder Krishan, an underestimated lyricist but who in reality dominated lyrics writing during the golden era of Hindi movie music. Among all the lyricists figuring in this blog, Rajinder Krishan has the second highest number of songs (554), behind Majrooh Sultanpuri (582).
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Ye chaand to mridang hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Music lovers who search in YT often tend to come across some unheard of songs sometimes which sound like gems. The song is one such unsung unheard gem.
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