Posts Tagged ‘Asha Bhonsle’
“Cha Cha Cha” (1964) is Bhavdeep Films production. It was produced and Directed by Chandrashekhar. He was also the hero of this movie. He had signed up Helen to play the heroine opposite him. So this movie was one of the rare occasions when Helen was not a one song wonder but got to sing lots of songs and got to act in a Bhartiya Naari kind of role.
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“Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) was produced by an ambitiously named Production house called Films & Televisions, seeing that there used to be hardly any network of Television in India those days. Thnkfully, they at least produced Films, if not TVs or TV Serials. “Ustaadon Ke Ustaad” (1963) , which was directed by Brij, had Ashok Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Shakila, Anwar, Sheikh Mukhtar, Amar, Shakeela Banu Bhopali, Helen, Johnny Walker etc in it.
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What song comes to our mind when a song begins “tumhe yaad hoga….” ? The classic “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song sung by Hemant Kumar-Lata of course. But there is another song that begins similarly. And this is a song that predates the “Satta Baazaar” (1959) song by half a decade.
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There are many well known songs from yesteryears that are not yet discussed. In some cases, I am aware about this fact. In other cases, I was under the impression that these songs were already discussed.
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Subah ki angdaayi hoon
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“‘Ameer” (1954) is such a rare and obscure movie that if one tries to search for this movie on search engines, one gets “Amar” (1954) instead. And needless to say, no information is available on this movie on internet.
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“Footpath” (1953) is a movie starring Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari. This movie has some nice songs in it and as many as four songs from this movie have been discussed here in the past.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusist of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Asha Bhonsle – the name that conjures up the racy and spicy sounds of ‘udlayee udlayee udlayee o’, a voice that has a chirp, and an impish and naughty flavor to it, and the versatility that adorns thousands of music creations that have become a hallmark in the annals of Hindi film music. The second of the famous siblings of the Mangeshkar clan, Asha ji was born on this day in 1933. She started singing for films at a very young age of 10 years. Although her released recordings in 1950s were second only to Lata, she was considered as the singer for “bad girls” and vamps, and got the assignments that were turned down by Lata, Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum. Her voice started getting noticed from films like Sangdil (1952), Parineeta (1953) and Boot Polish (1954). And then came the real recognition of her talent in the mid 1950s, under the baton of OP Nayyar, with hits like CID (1956) and Naya Daur (1957). She became the voice of Helen, and has sung most of the songs that Helen has performed on the screen. Helen ji used to attend the song recording sessions personally, to better get a feel of how the song is to be performed.
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“Hamsaaya” (1968) is a movie which had Joy Mukherji, Mala Sinha and Sharmila Tagore in it. As the title suggests, this movie had Joy Mukherjee in double role.One is Chinese and other in Indian. 🙂 Mala Sinha is the love interest of the Chinese Joy Mukherji while Sharmila Tagore plays the love interest of Indian Joy Mukherji.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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