Archive for the ‘Shamshad Begam solo’ Category
“Magroor” (1950) is quite a nice and wonderful movie. I became aware of this movie thanks to its review in Memsaab’s blog. I loved this movie.
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I have already discussed as amany as eight songs from “Afsaanaa” (1951) but it turns out that I am not yet done with the songs of this movie.
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Mere ghoonghar waale baal ho raja
Posted on: June 8, 2011
From late 1950s onwards, we had Helen as the dancing sensation. Before her, we had Cuckoo. In a way, Cuckoo was the fore runner of Helen.
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Aa gayi bahaar haay aa gayi bahaar
Posted on: May 24, 2011
I was a kid of that generation when kids loved to read story books. Reading stories of fairy tales, Arabian nights etc was my idea of achieving Nirvaan.
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Ae dil na sataa mujhko
Posted on: May 15, 2011
“Dil e Naadaan” (1953) is a movie starring Talat Mehmood, Shyama, Peace Kanwal etc. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past.
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“Pugree” (1948) is a movie that had Amar, Wasti, Kamini Kaushal, Shashikala, Gope, Pratima Devi, Ram Avtaar etc in it. This movie has some delightful songs in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past.
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Jiyaa bechain mera din rain
Posted on: May 6, 2011
“Sheeshaa” (1952) is an obscure movie that had Sajjan, Nargis, Kumkum, Amar, Achla Sachdev, Vimla, Cuckoo etc in it.I have no idea about the fate of this movie at the box office, but I guess that this movie failed to set the box office on fire.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheesh Mahal is a movie by Sohrab Modi from 1950. Sohrab Modi has presented a series of very powerful and very well made movies, which include both historical epics (Sikander, Pukar, Jhansi Ki Rani, Prithvi Vallabh, Mirza Ghalib, Nauserwan-e-Adil, Raaj Hatth etc.) and contemporary social dramas (Kundan, Meetthaa Zeher, Talaaq, Jailor etc.) Sheesh Mahal belongs to the latter category of his productions.
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Mera dil tadpaa kar kahaan chalaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
“Shabnam” (1949) is a movie that starred Kamini Kaushal and Dilip Kumar. This movie apparently was a box office success. And the music of this movie must have played a big role in the success of the movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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