Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Mere dil mein aao aur bas jaao
Posted on: May 17, 2011
“Duniyaa” (1949) is a movie produced by Fazil Brothers and directed by S F Hasnain. This movie had Karan Diwan, Suraiyya, Jankidas, Anwari, Yakoob, Budo Advani, Shakeela, Baby Zubaida etc in it.
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Preet mein hai jeewan jokhan
Posted on: May 17, 2011
“Dushman” (1939) is a movie that had K L Saigal, Kamlesh Kumari, Nawab, Najmul, Prithviraj Kapoor, Nimmo, Devbala, Leela Das etc.
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Ab pyaare pyaare aawenge aanand din
Posted on: May 16, 2011
Most music lovers of Hindi movie music are familiar with the names of major artists who began their careers in 1940s and later. But the artists who worked in the earlier decades are not all that well known, and worse, it is often believed that they were not in the same league as the artists who came later. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as I have been discovering.
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Dekhat waako hi roop prem ka pujaari
Posted on: May 15, 2011
“Chandidas” (1934) is a movie that was produced by Calcutta’s New Theatre. It is one of the earliest Hindi talkie as it came just three years after movies began to talk in India in 1931. This movie is a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi movies because K L Saigal came into prominence for the first time with this movie.
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“Lala Rukh”(1958) is a movie that had Shyama, Talat Mehmood, Vikram Kapoor, Radhika, Lotan, Jagdish Kamal, Tuntun, Ranibala etc in it. Yes, those were the day when Talat Mehmood, like Mukesh, was trying to become an actor-singer. Both of them suffered financially as well as in their singing careers, before they finally reconciled themselves to opt for just singing careers.
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Paise ka mantar paise ka jantar
Posted on: May 10, 2011
Regular visitors of this blog may have been noticing that I was discussing lots and lots of songs composed by Anil Biswas these days. And a few regulars may also be aware of the reason behind that. These days I am quite particular to see that major artists who have less than 100 of their songs in this blog reach their century of songs as quickly as I can help it.
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Meri jholi mein hain mere chor
Posted on: April 27, 2011
“Mehmaan”(1942) was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi for Ranjit Movietone, Bombay. The movie had Madhuri, Ishwarlal, Shamim, Rama Sukul, Mubarak, Kesari, Dharpure, Bhagwandas, Indira etc in it.
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Kidhar hai tu ae meri tamanna
Posted on: April 17, 2011
There have been several Hindi movies called “Kurukshetra” and almost all of these movies ended up as obscure movies.
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Jeene ke dhang sikhaaye jaa
Posted on: April 17, 2011
“Parwaanaa” (1947) is a movie which had K L Saigal, the then reigning K L Saigal acting opposite the then rising star Suraiyya. And both of them had sung their own songs, of course.
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