Posts Tagged ‘Ashok Kumar’
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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Dil unko utha ke de diya
Posted on: April 6, 2009
I think I need to augment my vocabulary, especially adjectives. As it is, I have been discovering so many great songs that I find myself ill equipped to praise these songs and their creators suitably with my present set of adjectives.
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Jaa re beimaan tujhe jaan liyaa
Posted on: March 27, 2009
This is an unknown song (at least for me) from an unknown movie called “Private secretary” (1962) composed by an unknown music director called Dilip Dholakiya.
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Main ban ki chidiya
Posted on: March 21, 2009
Even those who do not think much of old songs may have heard of this song or at least this movie. This movie called “Achhut Kanya” (untouchable girl) produced in 1936 was obviously made on a topic that was too far ahead of its time and the makers of this movie did a great social service by making a movie on this topic. It was the first out of only two movie that Mahatma Gandhi is reported to have seen, the other movie being “Ram Rajya”.
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Rahte thhe kabhi jinke dil mein
Posted on: March 18, 2009
I have posted one song from “Mamta” (1966) sometime back. Here is another song from this movie.
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Bhaag billi aayi re
Posted on: March 14, 2009
It is a 50 year old song, and I had never heard this song before. And this is a nice kids song too.
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“Aashirwaad” (1968) was an offbeat movie. And obviously, Indian movie goers were not ready for such movies. So there is little surprise then that the mention of this movie would draw a blank from many Bollywood movie buffs.
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Chanda ki chaandni ka jaadoo
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This is a song that I have listened to for the first time only today. I am not surprised because by now I have got used to it.
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Chalo ik baar phirse
Posted on: December 18, 2008
Filmfare best male singer awards began in 1960. Mukesh was the first winner for Anari, and then Rafi won it for the next two years for “Chaudhvin ka chaand” and “Sasuraal”. Then there was no award for 1963. The 1964 award was won by a new voice, viz Mahendra Kapoor for Gumrah (1963). The song which earned him this coveted prize was this song “chalo ik baar phir se ajnabi ban jaayen hum dono”.
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