Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
I became aware of this movie called “Magroor” (1950) thanks to its review by Memsaab. This is a delightful movie, and it is worth watching even for someone like me who cannot normally sit through the length of an entire Hindi movie.
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“Aankhen” (1950) is the debut movie of Madan Mohan as a music director. I have written about three songs from this movie in the past. In the cases of these three songs, nly the audio was available.
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Haay re insaan ki majbooriyaan
Posted on: September 13, 2010
“Ghoonghat” (1960) was a movie made by a South Indian production house, viz Gemini. It had Pradeep Kumar and Bina Rai in lead roles.
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Sochaa thhaa kyaa kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: September 9, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946) these days. So far, all the songs posted by me (all 8 of them) have been centred around Noorjahaan and Surendra, but this movie als had Suraiyya in it. And naturally, she too sang songs in this movie.
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These days I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi” (1946). In this series, here is the seventh song from this movie.
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Kaise kahen ham
Posted on: September 6, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
My memories of Sharmilee (1971) are associated with my seeing this movie on my first-ever visit to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1972. I have described some of my experiences of that visit on the post relating to the song “khilte hain gul yahaan”.
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Ab kaun hai meraa
Posted on: September 4, 2010
“Anmol Ghadi” (1946) was the biggest hit of the year 1946 and this movie in fact must be regarded as a landmark movie in the Hindi movie industry. The movie had Noorjehaan, Surendra and Suraiyya in lead roles. These three in fact sang their own songs. There was no dearth of songs in this movie. There were as many as 12 songs in it and they all became very popular.
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Taqdeer ka shiqwaa kaun kare
Posted on: September 2, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952). Now I have found that it was a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kausal, Asha Mathur etc.
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Koi nahin mera iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: September 1, 2010
When one looks at songs that end up as timeless songs, sad songs will form a good proportion of these songs. Lyrics of these songs contribute the most in making these songs memorable.
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Sad songs form an important genre of songs in Hindi movies. And it is noticed that many of such songs go on to become timeless classics.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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