Posts Tagged ‘Anil Biswas’
Chaahe kitni kathin dagar ho
Posted on: September 12, 2009
“Jeet” (1949) was an idealistic movie released just after India had become an independent nation. Its idealism may look naive today, but at that time, people actiually had high hopes and big aspirations. This movie “Jeet” (1949) must have struck the right chords with its audience at that time, I am sure.
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Rasiya re man basiya se
Posted on: September 5, 2009
Here is a beautiful song from “Pardesi” (1957) which is quite well known, though people may not be aware about the details of the song.
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Wo din kahaan gaye bataa
Posted on: August 30, 2009
One of the earlier pioneers of Bollywood movie music was Anil Biswas. He was one of the earlier music directors to make the most of Lata’s voice.
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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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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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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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