Archive for the ‘Suman Kalyanpur songs’ Category
Pahla pahla pyaar hai ye
Posted on: February 11, 2009
This song is from a 1966 movie called “Badtameez”. I have no idea what this movie was all about, but the movie boasted of big names in Bollywood music. Shankar Jaikishan were the music directors while Shailendra wrote the lyrics.
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Dil gham se jal raha hai
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Here is an old song from 1961 which I had never heard before till yesterday. This song is sung by Lata Suman Kaltanpur for Nimmi and the movie is “Shama”.
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Manmohan man mein ho tumhi
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This movie called “Kaise Kahoon” (1964) is quite unknown to most people. But the music of this movie is quite remarkable . Music director of this movie was S D Burman and he teamed up with lyricist Shakeel Badayuni in this movie.
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Ye kisne geet chheda
Posted on: February 4, 2009
The movie “meri soorat teri aankhen” (1963) was full of some very nice songs. I have already posted two outstanding semi classical songs from this movie- sung by Rafi and Manna Dey respectively.
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Tujhe pyaar karte hain
Posted on: January 31, 2009
The only song from “April Fool” that I was aware of was the title song “April fool banaya to unko gussa aaya”. It was only after Raja’s farmaishes that I realised that there were other songs in this movie as well. 😉
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Mere sang gaa gungunaa
Posted on: January 24, 2009
“Jaanwar” had many wonderful songs, which are very popular and well known even today.
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Itna hai tumse pyaar
Posted on: January 20, 2009
The movie “Suraj” had some very nice songs. And quite a few songs were picturised on the beautiful Mysore gardens.
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Bollywood movie songs are typically light songs to cater to the lowest common denominator among the listeners. But many of these songs are based on classical music, and it is just that the audience are not aware about that.
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Wow, what a song ! I have listened to this song many a times even though I did not have an inkling about which movie this song was from, or even who the singers were. I thought that Mukesh and Lata were the singers. But I find now that the female voice is Suman Kalyanpur. I think Suman Kalyanpur has sung similar number of songs as Mukesh and she had a Mukesh like midas touch too. A large number of her songs have gone on to become very popular, just like how it was with Mukesh.
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Making Bollywood movies is not everyone’s cup of tea. One needs solid financial backing in order to make a movie that people may feel interested in watching. Most successful movies are those which are made by established producers well endowed with financial muscle.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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