Archive for the ‘Songs of 1930s (1931 to 1940)’ Category
Din neeke beete jaate hain
Posted on: June 15, 2011
“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) is one of the earliest Hindi movies “talkies” that came just two years after Indian movies began to talk. It was this movie that gave us K L Saigal.
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So jaa raajkumaari so jaa
Posted on: June 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Zindagi” (1940) only just recently, but I was familiar with a couple of songs from this movie for some four decades. I had been listening to these songs at the srtoke of 8 AM on radio many a times in 1970s.
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Main kyaa jaanoon kyaa jaadoo hai
Posted on: June 12, 2011
During late 1960s and much of 1970s, when I was growing up as a kid, I scoffed at the songs that were played on radio Ceylon between 7-30 to 8 AM, which was the time for the programme called “Puraani filmon ke geet”. And the programme culminated at the stroke of 8 with a song by K L Saigal.
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Jeewan aasha ye hai meri
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I am aware of movies called “Zindagi” that were released in 1956 and 1964. There was in fact another movie of this name as far back as in 1940. This movie, produced by New Theatre,Calcutta, had actors like K L Saigal, Ashalata, Jamuna, Pahadi Sanyal,Sham Laha, Nimmo etc in it.
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Aankh moond kar dhyaan
Posted on: June 10, 2011
“Nartaki” (1940) is a movie that had Pankaj Mullick, Leela Desai, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti etc in it.
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Ab main kaah karoon kit jaaun
Posted on: June 10, 2011
Just like Radio Ceylon used to play a K L Saigal song every morning at the stroke of 8 AM in the days gone by, I too am discussing a K L Saigal song every morning. Unlike Radio Ceylon, who re cycled the same usual songs, I am discussing “new” Saigal songs every day. And it is interesting to notice that K L Saigal sang songs that many people may not have heard before.
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Awsar beeto jaat praani
Posted on: June 8, 2011
Most people do not value time as much as they value money. They do not realise that time, unlike money, continues to slip under our fingers irretrievably, every monent of our life. sixty minutes make an hour, and twentyfour such hours make a day. Thirty such days make a month, a couple of months make a season, six such seasons make a year, and with that one year is gone. Like this years continue to slip away. Most people waste their childhood in playing and their youth in carnal pleasures. And before they realise it, they have wasted their whole life without doing anything worthwhile ! They have wasted all the opportunities that came their way !
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“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) was one of the earliest Hindi “talkies”. It had actors like Anwari Bai, Kumar, K L Saigal, K C Dey, Kapur, Tara. It had some memorable songs in it that were sung by K C Dey and K L Saigal.
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Saanwariyaa prem ki bansi sunaa
Posted on: May 28, 2011
With time, I have become a big fan of K L Saigal and an even bigger fan of Kanan Devi (if that is possible). To the delight of fans like me, the two of them worked together in a few movies, where they acted and sang together.
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“Kaarwaan e Hayaat” (1935) is a movie starring K L Saigal, Rajkumari,Rattan Bai,Zutshi,Hamid etc in it.
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