Archive for the ‘Stage song’ Category
Aate hi jawaani ka mausam
Posted on: May 6, 2010
Ravi as a music director was a favourite of movie makers making movies on “muslim social” theme. There are several well known and not so well known movies of this genre in which Ravi gave music.
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Naa maaro nazariyaa ke baan
Posted on: April 24, 2010
“Pehli Jhalak” (1954) was a remake of a South Indian language movie. Kishore Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala were the lead actors in this Hindi version remake of this movie.
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Mausam aayaa hai rangeen
Posted on: April 19, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Dholak” (1951) in the past. Here is another lovely song from this movie.
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Chanda mama mere dwaar aanaa
Posted on: March 31, 2010
It was one year ago that I had discovered “Lajwanti” (1958) and I discussed most songs of this movie in this blog. But there is one song that remained unposted because I could not find a video link of that song at that time.
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I have not posted songs from the music director Ganesh for quite some time. Songs composed by him are very difficult to come across. But the effort in finding these songs is well worth it. Almost all his songs are gems of the highest order.
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Shammi Kapoor made his Bollywood debut in 1953. One of his movies that were released that year was “Rail Ka Dibba” (1953). Here where Shammi Kapoor was paired opposite Madhubala.
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Aao aao kahaani suno
Posted on: February 17, 2010
Not much is known about the movie “Mr Sampat” (1952) except that this movie was produced in South India and it was directed by S S Vasan. Motilal and Pardmini played lead roles in this movie.
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Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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I have been posting the songs of “Sargam” (1950) here these days. It is while posting these songs that I am discovering these songs for the first time. What wonderful songs these are ! And I am also surprised at the number of such songs. There are at least a dozen such songs, and all of them just mind boggling. And it is just as mind boggling to realise that this movie has been forgotten today.
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Sooni sooni saans ke sitaar par
Posted on: January 11, 2010
It was pointed out recently to me that I had not posted any songs from “Laal Patthar” (1971). I too am surprised because I was under the impression that I had posted at least one song fom this movie.
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