Archive for the ‘sad song’ Category
In my series of songs from “Badi Bahan”, here is the fifth song. This is a sad song, and this song really made me feel sad, that is how emphatic I found this song.
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Ae Kaatib e Taqdeer
Posted on: February 24, 2009
I have listened to this song quite a few times on Radio Ceylon’s a few minutes before 8 AM, but I must admit that I never paid any attention to the lyrics of this ( or any other ) K L Saigal song.
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Gham diye mustaqil
Posted on: February 19, 2009
Much like how Radio Ceylon would play a K L Saigal song at the stroke of 8 AM every morning, I too am posting a K L Saigal song as the first song every day. 😉
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Jab dil hi toot gaya
Posted on: February 17, 2009
Till 1970s, Radio Ceylon Hindi service had “Puraani filmon ke geet” programme from 7-30 to 8 AM every day. The last song of the programme was invariably a K L Saigal song.
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Dil gham se jal raha hai
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Here is an old song from 1961 which I had never heard before till yesterday. This song is sung by Lata Suman Kaltanpur for Nimmi and the movie is “Shama”.
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It is a legendary song sung by Noorjahan and it was picturised on Noorjahan herself. The movie is “Anmol Ghadi”(1946).
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There were quite a few songs containing “Zindagi” in their lyrics those days, and almost all of them were very popular songs. In fact, it was like each one of these songs gave a different interpretation of “Zindagi”. Some song would call “Zindagi” “ek paheli”, some would call it a “naatak”, some would call it a “khel” etc.
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Daaman mein daagh lagaa baithe
Posted on: February 6, 2009
“Dhool ka Phool” (1959) was a moving tale about an unwed mother and her child. Mala Sinha falls in love with Rajendra Kumar and they have a pre marital fling,assured in the knowledge that they would get married to each other. But then Rajendra Kumar ditches her and gets married to a girl of his parents’ choice. And Mala Sinha, as can be expected, is pregnant.
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Madan Mohan always felt shortchanged by public and media since he never got the credit for his music that he richly deserved.
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Kishore Kumar is mainly known for singing happy, bubbly kinds of songs but he was an allrounder.
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