Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
Koi lelo bhaiyya
Posted on: August 14, 2010
Here is a song from a very old movie called “Meenakshi” (1942). I became aware of this movie because of a farmaish by Sid for this song. This movie had Ahindra Chowdhury, Sadhana Bose and K C Dey in lead roles.
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Ruk jaa roktaa hai ye deewaanaa
Posted on: August 5, 2010
“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) was the first movie where Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar worked together for the first time, and the result was some outstanding music. The fact that Kishore Kumar acted in the movie certainly helped.
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Aaj hamen ban behad bhaataa
Posted on: July 19, 2010
I became aware of this movie called “Amar Jyoti” (1936) thanks to the review of this movie by Greta (memsaab). When I searched for the songs of this movie, I came across a few songs from this movie. Considering that the sound recording technology was in its infancy and the actors themselves had to record the songs live, the quality of the songs were not particularly great at least in the first two songs of this movie that I came across. But when I heard the third song, I sat up and took notice.
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It is said that Indians do not have sense of humour, and that is why comedy movies in India in general and Bollywood in particular have been few and far between. Movies dealing with action, romance, mythology and many other subjects are common but movies dedicated to comedy are very few.
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Paayal waali dekhnaa
Posted on: July 10, 2010
Kishore Kumar is mainly associated with light hearted fun songs, though he has sung great songs in all genres including serious songs. It is a well known fact that Kishore Kumar was a natural singer, who had not taken any training in classical music, unlike most other leading singers. In fact,this lack of classical training was often taken to mean by music directors that Kishore Kumar could not sing such songs. I can recall at least one occasion where Manna Dey’s voice was used for Kishore Kumar the actor for a semi classical song situation. 🙂
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I have posted a few songs from “Shamaa” (1961) in the past. This movie was the second last movie for Suraiyya and she sang some memorable songs in this movie, as well as in her last movie (“Rustam Sohrab”).
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Aapse pyaar huaa jaataa hai
Posted on: July 9, 2010
I was under the impression that Suraiyya’s singing-acting career was over in 1950s, but she also had a few movies released in 1960s. It is another matter that her best days were behind her by that time.
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I have posted three songs from “Shair” (1949) in this blog, but what are three songs from a musical blockbuster movie that had nearly a dozen songs in it ! I need to post the remaining songs from this movie as well which are just as nice to listen to.
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Jhilmil taare karen ishaare sojaa
Posted on: June 27, 2010
I have posted two rare songs from a rare movie called “Mashukaa” (1953) which was a home production of Mukesh. In this movie, Mukesh and Suraiyya were the lead actors, and naturally they had sung for themselves in this movie.
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mere man mein uthhe umang balam
Posted on: June 26, 2010
Yesterday I posted a song from “Mashukaa” (1953) and it was pointed out to me that this movie had Suraiyya as female lead and there must be songs sung by her in this movie too, that need to be posted.
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