Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Iskaa kyaa matlab hai
Posted on: February 28, 2011
“Sanam” (1951) had Suraiyya, Dev Anand, Meena Kumari, K N Singh, Gope, Pratima Devi, Jillo etc in it. In addition to being a box office hit, this movie was a musical blockbuster. I have already discussed five songs from this movie.
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Pyaar ki peer suhaani suhaani
Posted on: February 27, 2011
“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was made on the life of the blind poet of middle ages, namely Surdas, and the title role of Surdas was played by K C Dey, who himself was blind, just like Surdas.
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I keep discoving forgotten songs from forgotten movies quite regularly. Here is one such song that I discovered a few hours ago.
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I have discussed a song from “Goonj” (1952) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Dillagi” (1949) already in this blog. So I thought that there was no other song left in this movie to be discussed. But I was wrong. There are a few more songs in this movie that are still missing in this blog.
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It has often been suggested that Hindi movies of the earlier days were far more permissive and liberal than the movies that followed later. Based on my own observations,I tend to agree with this view.
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When I was growing up as a kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I noticed that old movie makers tended to give their movies the same title as the titles of new movies. 🙂 When radio announcer announced songs from “Andaaz”, “Aankhen”,”Aarzoo”,”Adaalat”, “Parwarish” etc, I expected to listen to songs from the newer movies of 1960s and 1970s and I was very upset when the songs played were from old movies of 1940s and 1950s, which were boring by my definition.
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Sa sa sa sa re
Posted on: February 23, 2011
This post is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog
A couple of days back I got to see the movie Naughty Boy (1962). It is a comedy starring Kishore Kumar and Kalpana (often remembered as the heroine singing “main chali main chali” with Shammi Kapoor in Professor, or the object of Dev Anand’s “arrey yaar meri tum bhi ho ghazab” in Teen Deviyan).
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