Archive for the ‘Suman Kalyanpur songs’ Category
“Paalki” (1967) was the kind of a movie that is popularly described as a Muslim social movie. Such movies typically had good songs which were picturised in a typical manner.
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Baad muddat ke ye ghadi aayi hai
Posted on: March 14, 2011
“Jahaan Ara” (1964) was a movie based on the life of Jahaan Ara,daughter of Emperor Shahjahaan. The movie, when it was released , was a monumental failure, and the movie was withdrawn from movie halls in less than a week.
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Aankh mein shokhi lab pe tabassum
Posted on: March 13, 2011
“Reshmi Roomaal” (1961) is a B grade movie starring Manoj Kumar (then a newcomer) opposite Shakila (then over the hill). This movie and its songs are quite obscure as of now.
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Ho munna jaayegaa baazaar
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Man Mandir” (1971), which is a new movie by the standards of this blog, starred Waheeda Rehman and Sanjeev Kumar. This movie, by most indications was a flop. This movie had some nice songs in it, though, which were popular at that time. I loved these songs though at that time I was not aware that those songs were from this movie. I have already discussed two such songs from this movie in this blog.
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Aise to na dekho
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Bheegi Raat” (1965) is a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie is mainly known to me for its superb romantic songs.
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Wo dekho dekh rahaa thhaa papeehaa
Posted on: March 10, 2011
“Fariyaad” (1964) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie had Ashok Sharma, Zeb Rehman,Nazima, Tuntun, Achla Sachdev etc. The movie was different from the usual mainstream Hindi movies and it fared badly at the box office.
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“Saawan” (1959) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Bharat Bhushan and Ameeta in lead roles.
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Tera muskuraanaa banaa ik fasaanaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
Recently reader Sudhir likened my knack of discovering musical gems to going into a coal mine and stumbling upon diamonds. It is a good comparison, and I in fact feel that the likelihood of coming up with musical diamonds in the metaphorical musical coal mine is far more, seeing how many of them I discover on a regular basis. I in fact liken it to walking on a beach, and coming across these gems lying undiscovered.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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