Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Saajan ghar aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2011
“Station Master” (1942) is a movie that had Prem Adeeb and Ratnamala in lead roles. It was in this movie that Suraiyya, then 13 years of age, made her Hindi movie debut under the name of Baby Suraiyya. It was in this movie that she got to sung her first song, which was picturised on herself.
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“Maashooqaa” (1953) is a movie that starred Mukesh, Suraiyya, Agha, Durga Khote, Kuldeep Kaur etc. I have discussed three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Mukesh was brought to Bombay (now Mumbai) in late 1930s by Motilal (a distant relative) who had seen him singing a song at Motilal’s sister’s wedding. While at Bombay, Mukesh got the opportunity to act and sing in a movie called “Nirdosh” (1941). This movie also had Nalini Jaiwant.It is interesting to note that Mukesh first acted in movies in 1940s, whereas his grandson (Neil Nitin Mukesh) is acting in movies more than six decades later. Read the rest of this entry »
Parwaanon se preet seekh len
Posted on: February 1, 2011
The lyrics of this song has been provided by Sudhir , a new reader of this blog and a fellow entusiast of Hindi movies and their songs
It is interesting to know how the information that is common knowledge four decades back becomes rare information with passage of time. Today few people know about the existence of this movie and its songs. When I was growing up as a pre teen kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, information about this movie was readily available but I never bothered to look that up. after all I was a pre teen kid, who was only interested in the new songs and new movies, not old ones like this.
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Aankhon mein tum dil mein tum ho
Posted on: January 30, 2011
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“Half Ticket” (1962) is a much loved comedy movie starring Kishore Kumar, Madhubala and Pran.
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Lelo sone ka laddoo
Posted on: January 30, 2011
He is a song that I heard for the first time only recently. This song is from a movie called “Paisa Hi Paisa” (1956) and this movie too is unfamiliar to me.
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I had heard of the movie called “Bilwamangal” (1954) even in my younger days, because I had read about this movie in magazines. That is all I knew about this movie till now.
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Fasle bahaar gaaye jaa
Posted on: January 28, 2011
Here is a very old song from an old and forgotten movie called “Nazma” (1943). This song is sung by two female singers. This song could be called a song of contrasting moods or a happy-sad song, where Sitara Devi exudes happiness and joy whereas Parul Ghosh sings with sadness and pathos.
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From the song, it is often possible to guess the music director. But not always. there have been cases where a song, sounding like O P Nayyar’s song may turn out to be Madan Mohan’s.
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Tum meet mere tum praan mere
Posted on: January 25, 2011
“Jeet” (1949) is a movie that paired Suraiyya (a popular star of the time) with Dev Anand, then a new comer.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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