Archive for the ‘Suraiyya solo’ Category
Kinaare kinaare chale jaayenge
Posted on: August 16, 2009
“Vidya” (1948) was a movie released one year after India’s independence. Just about everyone associated with this movie was a newcomer.
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Ye mausam aur ye tanhaayi
Posted on: July 15, 2009
Here is a lovely song from “Daastaan” (1950). It is a piano song.It is sung by Suraiyya and it is picturised on her as well.
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Raahi matwaale
Posted on: June 18, 2009
Some time back, I had compiled a list of rail songs. It had about 20 odd songs and I thought that I had all the rail songs covered. That list of songs is still there in my other ( by now rather defunct) blog.
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Toone meraa yaar naa milaayaa
Posted on: June 9, 2009
It is interesting to realise that Shammi Kapoor was around since early 1950s, and he in fact acted opposite a top actress like Suraiyya, no less. This was in a movie called “Shama Parwaana” (1954).
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Ye na thi hamaari qismat
Posted on: April 30, 2009
Mirza Ghalib was a legendary Urdu poet who was born in 1800s. Many of his poems have been sung by a host of singers.
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Murli waale murli bajaa
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a sopng from “Dillagi” (1949) and described that song as one that was played quite frequently in Radio Ceylon’s “purani filmon ke geet” programme in 1960s and 1970s.
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Hamen tum bhool baithe ho
Posted on: April 5, 2009
This song is from a very old movie called “Shair” (1949). This movie had Dev Anand and Surayya in lead roles.
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Ye kaisi ajab daastaan ho gayi hai
Posted on: March 23, 2009
Suraiyya, who was a big name singer-actor in 1940s insisted on singing only for herself. As a result, when the era of specialist playback singers dawned in 1950s, Suraiyya found few takers for her acting-cum-singing. Had she agreed to be mainly a playback singer, she could have had a long innings, but she would not sing for others.
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I am posting one great song after another from the 1949 movie called “Badi Bahan”. Here is another such song from this movie.
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In my series of songs from “Badi Bahan”, here is the fifth song. This is a sad song, and this song really made me feel sad, that is how emphatic I found this song.
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