Archive for the ‘Semi Classical song’ Category
Raina beeti jaaye Shyaam na aaye
Posted on: April 17, 2009
“Amar Prem” was full of memorable songs that are remembered to this date.
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Jab deep jale aana
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Chitchor” was a Rajshree productions movie that introduced Amol Palekar, Zareena Wahab and Vijayendra Ghatge to Bollywood. Yesudas, who had sung a few songs for Salil Chowdhary made his mark as a playback singer in Bollywood with this movie.
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Kabhi aaj kabhi kal kabhi parson
Posted on: April 6, 2009
We have read a lot about how Suman Kalyanpur had a voice very similar to Lata and that affected her career big time.
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Sakhi ri mera man uljhe tan dole
Posted on: April 3, 2009
“Chitralekha” (1964) was a labour of love for Roshan and he had composed some superb songs in this movie. So it was a heart break for him when the movie did not do well at the box office, almost like what happened with Madan Mohan with “Jahan Ara” in the same year.
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Kyun chameli khilkhilaati hai bataa
Posted on: April 1, 2009
This movie called “Bahut Din Huye” (1954) had as many as 16 songs.14 were composed by B S Kalla and 2 by E Shastry. With so many songs in this movie, I wonder if there was any time left for normal dialogues in this movie. 😉
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Sakhi ri sun
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Miss Mary” (1957) in the past. I described one of those songs (” O raat ke musaafir” ) as a Chaayageet song.
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Baalamwa bolo na bolo na
Posted on: March 28, 2009
Here is a song from a movie called “Picnic” (1966). This song is sung by Lata and picturised on Shubha Khote.
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Jaa re beimaan tujhe jaan liyaa
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is an unknown song (at least for me) from an unknown movie called “Private secretary” (1962) composed by an unknown music director called Dilip Dholakiya.
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Man Mohana bade jhoothe
Posted on: March 23, 2009
“Seema” (1955) is a movie that launched Nutan’s career as a tragedy queen. I am sure Nutan may not have bargained for a career as a tragedy queen when she began her Bollywood career in early 1950s after becoming the first ever filmfare Miss India. Yes, Nutan won the Miss India award in 1952 in its inaugural edition.
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Phool gendwa na maaro
Posted on: March 18, 2009
Manna Dey yet again gets to sing a song for a bit actor (Agha this time). And as usual, Manna Dey gives his best in the song. The song may not have won too many popularity contests those days, but for music aficionadoes, this song remains a Manna Dey classic.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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