Posts Tagged ‘Actor-Singer’
I had never heard this song before. I heard this song for the first time only just now.
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I had posted a remarkable comedy song from “Bandi” (1957) which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on hmself. Now I find that this movie has a great serious song too, once again sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself.
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Bollywood movies have songs on many topics, and the most important topic is obviously “love”. Boy is shown falling in love with a girl and is shown expressing his love with a song. The girl will initially disapprove of his attention then begin responding and would be found joining towards the end of the song.
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Ek roz hamaari bhi daal galegi
Posted on: August 25, 2009
When I look at the star cast of “Bandi” (1957), I notice that it had all the Ganguly brothers viz Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar in it and the three leading ladies in this movies were Bina Rai, Shyama and Nanda. That way this movie must have been like “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi”. I wonder what happened to “Bandi” at the box office. With this kind of star cast, the movie certainly promised so much.
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During early 1950s, the biggest name in male playback singing was Talat Mehmood, and like Suraiyya on the distaff side, he was foraying into acting too. In fact, many music directors at that time thought that he was not avaialble to sing for other actors ( like Suraiyya) and as a result he stopped getting offers for playback singing for other actors.
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Hello Hello ji
Posted on: August 16, 2009
Telephones may be ubiquitous and affordable these days, but they were regarded as a luxury item in India till just two decades back. Getting a telephone connection took as long as getting a ration card or a gas connection in India of yesteryears.
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“Bambai Ka Chor” (1962) is known for one immortal song sung by Kishore Kumar, viz “Hasrat hi rahi hamse bhi kabhi koi pyaar kartaa”.
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Hip hip ho ho hoorrah
Posted on: July 31, 2009
“Jaalsaaz” (1959) is a movie I have discovered recently. It seems to be a treasure trove of some great songs which I never knew existed.
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Dil hamne de diyaa
Posted on: July 30, 2009
“Pyaar Kiye Jaa” (1966) was one Shashi Kapoor movie that was successful despite he being the solo hero of this movie. That is what I was told all these days.
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Main kaun hoon kyaa hoon
Posted on: July 27, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who made his singing debut in 1948 with “Ziddi”(1948) soon became an actor-singer too. In 1950s, he began to come into his own in this role.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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