Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
After Mukesh had become a well known singer in late 1940s and early 1950s, he tried to become a hero and tried his hand in acting. He in fact began to produce movies as well with himself as hero.
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I was on the lookout for this song for quite some time, ever since Raja gave me the farmaish of this song from “Shrimaanji”. In all this time, I managed to find (and post) several songs from “Shrimatiji”, but I drew a blank as far as locating songs of “Shrimaanji” was concerned.
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Here is another song that people listen and enjoy a lot without being aware of its details. All these days I only knew what I could hear. In other words, I only knew that this was a duet sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar.
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Ambuaa ki daari pe bole re koyaliyaa
Posted on: May 3, 2010
“Dahej”(1950) is a movie about whose existence I became aware after the farmaishes of an oldtimer reader (Dr Vyas) of this blog. And I am glad that I became aware of this movie. What wonderful songs this movie has !
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I had heard vaguely about a movie called “Dahej” (1950), possibly because one of the readers of this blog had mentioned this movie.
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Nukta cheen hai gham e dil
Posted on: April 17, 2010
I had not heard this ghazal from “Mirza Ghalib” (1954) earlier, though I had read about it. I heard it for the first time only just now. What a song it is ! The lyrics were written by Ghalib, one of the greatest shayars of Urdu literature, and the movie is of course based on his life. He was long gone by that time, but his poetry has been enlivened by the superb voice of Suraiyya and accompanied by just the right music composed by Ghulam Mohammad. Most people will never read the literary works of poets like Ghalib, but it is songs like this that will make laymen aware of the riches that a poet like Ghalib left behind for us to savour.
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Beqaraar hai koi
Posted on: April 9, 2010
“Shama Parwaana” (1954) was one of the first movies of Shammi Kapoor. And in this movie, he was paired up opposite a top heroine of the day, namely Suraiyya. In Bollywood movies, leading ladies as often treated as pieces of decoration. It is heratening to see that leading lads too can get the same treatment. In Shammi Kapoor’s earlier movies, especially where he was pitted against star names like Suraiyya, Suraiyya got all the limelight and Shammi Kapoor was left playing the second fiddle. 🙂
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Purvaiyya leke chali meri naiyya
Posted on: April 8, 2010
This song was a reasonably popular song of its time and people would love listening to this song, even if they were not aware about the details of this song.
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Tu hi bharosa tu hi sahaaraa
Posted on: April 6, 2010
“Shama Parwaana” (1954) was a movie that had Suraiyya and Shammi Kapoor in lead roles. This movie had some nice songs that have been largely forgotten by now.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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