Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
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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Jeet jyot tez chamak raha hai
Posted on: September 22, 2012
Today (22 september) is the death anniversary of Durga Khote (14 january 1905 -22 september 1991). Many younger day movie watchers may associate her with mother and grandmother roles, but she was one of the earliest leading lady of Hindi movies and one of those who paved the entry of women from respectable background to Hindi movies.
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Isi sheher ki kisi galli mein
Posted on: September 21, 2012
This aricle is written by Pamir Harvey, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
Going through Atul’s index of movie-wise songs I was astonished to find that so many film titles begin with “Mr.”. One “Mr.” title though I didn’t find there and that was Mr. Romeo (1974) . Till 2003 I hadn’t even known that such a movie existed till I saw its score on Music India Online. R. D. Burman has given the film a good score. He usually did that to for-us-now obscure films. It seems to be the launching vehicle for the leading lady Rinku Jaiswal. I think this was her only movie.
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Chalo kahin aur chalte hain
Posted on: September 20, 2012
When one talks of a movie called “Naya Daur”, one thinks of the B R Chopra movie of 1957 which had Dilip Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles and which had lilting music by O P Nayyar.
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Allah khair baba khair
Posted on: September 20, 2012
Today (20 september) is the death anniversary of Anup Kumar, the brother of Ashok Kumar and Kishore Kumar.
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