Archive for the ‘Uma Devi songs’ Category
Maayi ri main to madhuban mein
Posted on: November 24, 2013
This article is written by Bharat Upadhyay, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This article is meant to be posted in atulsongaday.me. If this article appears in sites like lyricstrans.com and ibollywoodsongs.com etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of atulsongaday.me and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
Remembering playback singer Uma Devi, more popularly known as comedian Tun Tun, on her death anniversary today. (24th November)
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Pag pag thokar khaaye jawaani
Posted on: July 11, 2013
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A natural talent that made a significant impression when launched, but eventually could not compare to the range and versatility of its peers.
Another reason often mentioned is the simplicity and the lack of awareness of the machinations of the film world. An innocent contravention, and the anchor support was taken away. And then the talent transmogrified into another role. And the resulting fun and laughter, then lasted a good half a century.
Remembering Uma Devi on the anniversary of her birth today – 11th July, 2013.
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This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Collecting information from forgotten artists is extremely difficult. First problem is to find them. Many yesteryear actors who are still alive are living in anonymity. People who live around them also may not know their identity, many times. If they are members of CINTAA (Cine and TV Artists’ Association, Mumbai), one may get their addresses, but some actors do not even inform CINTAA, when they shift.
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“Anokhi Ada” (1948) is a treasure of great songs. Like most music lovers, I was only aware of the just the few songs from this movie that were the most popular ones. But subsuquently, I have been discovering the remaining songs of this movie, mainly because the lyrics of the remaining songs from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) have been sent to me by Atif M. Yesterday I discussed an untypical composition from this movie which was a soft song, which sounded like a western music based composition. And here is a lovely folk music based composition from “Anokhi Ada” (1948) which has bowled me over at the very first listening.
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Ye kaun chala haay ye kaun chala
Posted on: July 27, 2012
Regulars of this blog may have noticed the reduced postings of songs for the last few days. It is not because of any slackness on my part. It is because I have not been able to find time to spend on the blog. I was travelling almost throughout during this period and all these postings were done hurriedly, often while journeying. And after the end of the journey, I landed at Delhi and became busy in meetings.
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“Dard” (1947) was a Kardar Production movie. It was produced and directed by A R Kardar. The movie had Suraiya, Shyam Kumar, Munawwar Sultana, Nusrat, Badri Prasad, Husn Banu, Pratima Devi etc in it.
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“Chaandni Raat” (1949) was a Tajmahal Pictures production. It was directed by M Ehsan. The movie had Shyam, Naseem Bano, David Abraham, Ulhas, Cuckoo, Jillo, Parveen, Noor Jehan, Sayeeda Khan etc in it.
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“Chandralekha” (1948), originally a Tamil movie, was remade in Hindi with original actors of the Tamil movie and it turned out to be a big success in Hindi too.
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“Anokhi Ada”(1948) was a Mehboob Productions movie. Mehboob Khan was the producer and director of this movie. Star cast of the movie had Surendra, Naseem, Pratima Devi, Zeb Qureshi, Cuckoo, Prem Adeeb, Bhudo Advani, Nawab, Murad, etc in it.
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I have discussed a song from “Kaajal” (1948) in the past, where I had mentioned that Wasti, Suraiyya and Jayant were the actors in this movie.
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