Posts Tagged ‘Ashok Kumar’
Suno suno gagan ke taaron
Posted on: July 22, 2009
I keep stumbling upon unknown songs that are gems. Today I stumbled upon a remarkable gem.
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Miyaan meraa badaa beimaan
Posted on: July 21, 2009
Minu Mumtaz, who was a sister of Mehmood was a popular dancer in Bollywood movies of 1950s and 60s.
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Raat hai suhaani o nindiyaa raani
Posted on: June 24, 2009
Just like there are hit pairs of hero and heroine in movies, there used to be a hit pair of mother and child in 1950s. Meena Kumari would play mother of Daisy Irani in several movies.
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Dil hai lutaa huaa jahaan
Posted on: June 22, 2009
I was aware of “Talaash” of 1969, but I did not know that there was another movie of the same name that was released in 1957.
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Aaja dil ko nahin hai karaar
Posted on: June 18, 2009
Yesterday I had posted a song sung by Ashok Kumar for himself in the movie “Najma” (1943). In fact, those days actors had to sing their own songs, so only those persons made it as actors who were good looking and could sing passably well at least.
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Kyaa muhabbat ka yahi anjaam hai
Posted on: June 17, 2009
Ashok Kumar was a trained singer, whereas his younger brother Kishore Kumar was not. Even then, it was the untrained sibling who made it big as a playback singer.
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Beqaraar dil tu gaaye jaa
Posted on: May 28, 2009
I have heard this song earlier, but I did not pay much attention while doing that. And afterwards I have read lots and lots of nice things about this song. People regard it as one of the best songs that Kishore Kumar has ever sung.
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Dil chhed koyi aisaa naghma
Posted on: May 26, 2009
I bet few people are aware of a 1956 movie called “Inspector”. I was not. I became aware of this movie only yesterday.
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Upar gagan vishaal
Posted on: May 11, 2009
“upar gagan vishaal” is a song that launched Manna Dey’s career as a playback singer. This song from “Mashaal” (1950) was a bullock cart song. The picturisation shown Ashok Kumar riding a bullock cart and the bullock cart driver ( who is he ? ) singing this song.
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Chale bhi aao kasam tumhen
Posted on: April 9, 2009
Music director Ravi, who made his debut as an independent music director in 1955, began to churn out nice music immediately. Here is a nice song from a 1957 movie called “Ek Saal”.
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