Posts Tagged ‘Anil Biswas’
Aa sapne tujhe bulaayen
Posted on: March 4, 2011
“Hamdard” (1953) is a movie that starred Nimmi,Shekhar, Smriti Biswas and others. The movie had some nice songs in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past.
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Hans le gaa le o chaand mere
Posted on: March 1, 2011
I have discussed as many as six songs from “Jeet” (1948) in this blog. Most of these songs were sung by Suraiyya, the then reigning acting-singing superstar. But this movie also had a new emerging voice that was tipped to go far. Yes, Lata Mangeshkar was also given an opportunity of playback singing in this movie.
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Ye zindagi hai ik safar
Posted on: February 17, 2011
“Raahi” (1953) is a K A Abbas movie based on novelist Mulkraj Anand’s novel of the same name. This movie had Nalini Jaiwant, Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni etc in it.
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Mythological/historical Lovers of the yore, viz Heer-Ranjha, Laila Majnu, Sohni Mahiwaal etc have inspired Hindi movie makers to make several movies on their stories.
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The technology of recording Hindi movie songs in the earlier decades was not very advanced. It was not possible to use the same recording for both the movie as well as the record companies, so the same song was recorded twice- once for the movie sound track, and another time for the record company.
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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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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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“Heer” (1956) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Nutan in lead roles.
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Suhaani beriyaan beeti jaayen
Posted on: December 20, 2010
Movies with the title “Milan” seems to get produced every decade. I am aware of “Milan” (1967) and I also became aware of “Milan” (1958). Now it turns out that there was a movie of this name in 1946 too. This movie, “Milan” (1946) had Dilip Kumar, Ranjana, Meera Mishra etc in this movie.
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Dheere dheere aare baadal
Posted on: December 20, 2010
“Kismat” (1943) was a landmark movie in the annals of Hindi movies. This movie was the first multi starrer movie in the Hindi movie industry. Its songs were hugely popular, and remain so to this day.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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