Archive for the ‘Suman Kalyanpur songs’ Category
Chaand takta hai idhar
Posted on: March 17, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
As my age advances, I have started realising that I am recalling memories of my childhood and younger days much better than before. The flip side is that I tend to get forgetful or absent-minded in respect of my immediate past events. While the old days’ remembrance can be nostalgic and some time makes me emotional, the positive side is that I have started remembering some of the old Hindi films songs which I had completely forgotten for many years. But here is a catch which places me in a piquant situation. In some cases, I just remember the tune of a song and not the starting words or in an other way round, I remember the starting words but struggle to get to the tune of the song. Obviously, I have no inkling about the names of the films concerning these songs.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I am not a keen watcher of period movies but do buy VCDs/DVDs of such movies mainly for watching the fabulous songs. Recently, I watched NOOR JEHAN (1967) with a view to ascertaining whether the VCD contained the only Lata Mangeshkar song ‘ raat ki mehfil sooni sooni’ in it. In this process, I saw the entire movie. As I expected, the song was excluded from the VCD. In fact, it is said that this song was not included in the original print of the film. Despite some mindless cuts in the VCD version affecting the continuity of the screen play and the bad quality of video, I did not feel a total let down by the film. The story which I knew from the history books was interesting one from the point of view of cinematic presentation. The film was shot on lavish sets and outdoor locations in keeping with the period movie theme.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Another unheard film, that I got familiar with as I started to track a song that I came across after ages. Having heard it on the radio many years ago, I found it again few days ago on YouTube.
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Dil ka qaraar le gayaa
Posted on: February 9, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This find is simply exciting. A song that is foot tapping, and very hummable, full of delight. Another one, heard long, long back, and then lost. Just bumped into it today, and just could not wait to write a post. The birthday of Suman Kalyanpur has just passed on 28th Jan. I would rather send in a belated greetings than wait for another year. This song is just too good to wait for that long.
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Dil ek mandir hai
Posted on: January 28, 2012
Today (28th january) is the birth anniversary of Suman Kalyanpur. On this occasion, here is the title song of “Dil Ek Mandir” (1963). The song is a duet which is sung by Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur and it is picturised as the movie ending song as we see people mourning the death of Rajendra Kumar in the picturisation and the movie comes to an end. This song is the title song of the movie as well.
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Koi pukaare dheere se
Posted on: January 28, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the 75th birthday of Suman Kalyanpur (nee Hemadi). She was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka in undivided Bengal where she spent her early childhood. In some places, her maiden surname is spelt as Hemadey probably having something to do with her Bengal connection. Her family hailed from Hemadi village in Udipi district of Karnataka and belonged to Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community which has given actors/directors to Hindi cinema such as Guru Dutt, Girish Karnad, Shyam Benegal, Leena Chandavarkar, Deepika Padukone to name a few. Her family migrated from Dhaka to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1943. Talat Mehmood noticed Suman Kalyanpur during one of her concerts and was very much impressed with her singing. He agreed to sing a duet with her for the film Darwaaza (1954). The song was “ek dil do hain talabgaar” which was her first song as a playback singer for Hindi films.
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“Anjaana”(1969) was an Em Kay Productions movie. Em Kay, viz Mohan Kumar also directed the movie. Star cast of the movie included names like Rajendra Kumar, Babita, Pran, Nazima, Prem Chopra, Sunder, Nirupa Roy, Mohan Choti, Tuntun, Mehmood Junior etc.
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If new year is the day of making resolutions (only to give them up after a few days 🙂 ), then last day of the year is the day of bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, hoping that the new year would bring in better luck than the previous year. Let bygone be bygones and let us make a new beginning- that is the sentiment on this occasion.
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Dil gayaa dil ka aitbaar gayaa
Posted on: December 29, 2011
“Qawwaali Ki Raat” (1964) was obviously inspired from “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960). The songs of “Qawwali Ki Raat” (1964) were nice in their own right, if we do not seek to make comparisons with “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960) songs.
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Maano ya na maano
Posted on: December 21, 2011
“First Love” (1961) is a lesser known movie. This movie is a Natraj Production presentation. It was directed by Vedmohan. The movie had actors like Mehmood, Preetibala (Zeb Rehman), Naaz, Raj Mehra, Amar etc in it.
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