Posts Tagged ‘Anil Biswas’
Dheere dheere dhal ri chandaa
Posted on: April 20, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) is the story of a Historical/mythological character Angulimaal who was a bandit during Gautam Buddha’s time. He would rob people and cut their fingers (anguli) and wear a garland (mala) made out of these fingers- hence his name Angulimaal. According to tales, he gets hold of Lord Buddha and he intends to subject him to the same treatment, but he gets reformed by Lord Buddha.
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I stumbled upon this rare song just now. This song is from a movie called “Jaasoos” (1957) which apparently never got released, though a few of its songs were recorded.
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Aayi aayi basanti belaa
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) was a story of Angulimaal, a bandit who turned saint, a historical/mythological character who lived during the times of Lord Buddha.This movie had Bharat Bhushan,Nimmi and Anita Guha in it.
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Aaj bhari mehfil mein ae dil
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Jalti Nishaani” (1957) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Kamal Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Kuldeep Kaur, Sundar, Ulhaas, Chaman Puri etc.
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Mere pyaar mein tujhe kyaa milaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
I have little idea about this movie called “Maan” (1954). Apparently this movie have actors like Ajit, Kamlesh Kumari, Chitra, Jagirdaar in it.
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In olden days, tear jerker movies had a good market in India. These movies often had long suffering women shown to make sacrifices for no apparent reason and also singing nice songs in the bargain.
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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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