Posts Tagged ‘Anil Biswas’
Here is a song from a movie called “Heer” (1956). It is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist and Anil Biswas composed the music.
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Bhor suhaani aayi
Posted on: August 21, 2009
I talk a lot about “chaayageet” song that are best heard late at night. But how about songs that are best heard at other times of the day ? Yes, there are such songs too.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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Door bahut aabaadi se
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Jhoola” (1962) was a movie about which I had little idea. I thought that movies with this kind of title must be a movie of early 1950s when we had movies of similar sounding titles ( “Jhamela”, “Jhaanjhar” etc).
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Man mein kisi ki preet basaa le
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Bollywood movies have created some big myths which is now believed by everyone. One such myth is that it is possible to sit on a grand piano and play it while singing a song. In reality, playing such a big piano is so difficult that a player playing it can in no way sing as well. But our Bollywood heroes are shown merrily singing away while playing the piano, which incidentally is shown creating music of all other instuments, viz violin, guitar, dholak, flute, etc in addition to its own music.
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Ae dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Aarzoo” (1950) was a movie starring Dilip Kumar. Those were the days when Talat Mahmood used to sing for him.
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Teri nazron kaa paake ishaara
Posted on: June 22, 2009
Can anyone believe that there was a Bollywood movie called “Lucky Number” in 1961 ? The movie of course was not lucky enough and few people today remember this movie.
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Raahi matwaale
Posted on: June 18, 2009
Some time back, I had compiled a list of rail songs. It had about 20 odd songs and I thought that I had all the rail songs covered. That list of songs is still there in my other ( by now rather defunct) blog.
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Tumhaare bulaane ko jee chaahtaa hai
Posted on: June 9, 2009
Here is a very old song from “Laadli” (1949). This song is sung by Lata who was then a newcomer.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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