Archive for the ‘stage dance’ Category
Main to Dilli se dulhan laayaa re
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There are a few milestones in this blog that I eagerly look forward to. One of them is the obvious milestone of century songs. Every song that marks the completion of a century is a special song for this blog and we celebrate it by discussing a special song on that occasion. There have been 44 such occasions for this blog.
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Chalo paniyaa bharan ko chalen
Posted on: August 27, 2011
There have been at least two movies called “Khaandaan”. One of them was released in 1965 and it had Sunil Dutt and Nutan in lead roles. But there was another movie of the same name that was released as far back as 1942.
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Sheeshe ka ho ke patthhar ka dil
Posted on: August 26, 2011
“Baat Ek Raat Ki” (1962) is a movie starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. When one looks at the songs of this movie, one notices that this movie had lots of singers singing lots of solos and duets. This movie had singers like Rafi,Lata, Manna Dey,Hemant Kumar,Asha Bhonsle and Suman Kalyanpuri. And this movie has duets sung by Rafi and Lata, Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, as well as Hemant Kumar and Suman Kalyanpur. In fact, Asha Bhonsle and Rafi sing as many as four duets in this movie.
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Halki halki sard hawaa
Posted on: August 19, 2011
“Bambai Ka Chor” (1962) is a movie starring Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Jagdish Raj, Brahm Bhardwaj etc. This movie is apparently a suspense thriller.
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Le lo le lo do phool daani le lo
Posted on: July 24, 2011
I have mentioned this fact about Hindi movie songs that most of them are about human feelings viz love, sadness, happiness and not about commerce/business. In fact there are very few songs that are about selling some products. I have discussed a few songs where chanajor or similar stuff is being sold. In one such write up, readers came up with the list of a few other songs where some item was being sold.
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Main kyun na naachoon aaj kaho jee
Posted on: July 18, 2011
“Paighaam” (1959)which was a Gemini Pictures productions, is a movie that had Dilip Kumar and Raj Kumar together for the first time. This big budget movie was directed by S S Vasan.
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“Dushman” appears to be quite a popular title of Hindi movies. About half a dozen movies of this name have been produced so far. In this blog, I have discussed songs from three such movies, viz “Dushman” (1938),”Dushman”(1957) and “Dushman” (1971).
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Jiyaa ka diyaa piyaa timtim howe
Posted on: June 20, 2011
Here is a song from “Sunahre Din” (1949). It is a stage dance song. I am unable to identify the ladies who perform in this dance. I request my knowledgeable readers to help identify them.
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Here is a sstage song from the movie “Chaand” (1944). This song is picturised as a stage song on Sitara Devi. I am not sure who is the singer of this song. It could well be Sitara devi herself. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this fact.
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Suno suno jee more rasiyaa
Posted on: June 8, 2011
V Shantaram movies tended to have himself and his wife (Sandhya/Jayshree- as the case may be) in his movies. And he tended to have Vasant Desai as the music director of his movies.
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