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Baalam to pe sabar padey
Posted on: September 18, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
‘baalam to pe sabar padey, moraa maikaa chhudaaye deenhon raam’
“O dear sweetheart, you have made me relinquish my mother’s home, hope you are now pleased and satisfied”
More than ‘Gham diye mushtaqil kitna naazuk hai dil (Shahjahan). . .’, and ‘Jab dil hi toot gaya(Shahjahan). . .’, this unfinished song is a much more fitting signature song that suddenly defines the totality of Saigal Saab’s essence of spirit, and sums up his entire life in terms of the most relevant event of human existence – the final departure.
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Ghir ghir aaye baadal kaare
Posted on: September 17, 2011
“Daak Banglaa” (1947) is a movie where Suraiyya seemingly sang most of the songs. I have so far discussed four songs from this movie and her voice appears in all of them, either solo or as part of a duet.
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Aison se jee na lagaaye koi
Posted on: September 16, 2011
Suraiyya, who was the leading lady of “Daak Bangla” (1947) had sung quite a few songs in this movie.
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“Pehle Aap” (1944) is a movie produced by A R Kardar. This movie had Wasti, Shamim, Jeewan, Anwar Hussain etc in it.
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Peepal ki chhaaon mein
Posted on: September 15, 2011
“Dak Bangla” (1947) is a movie starring Wasti,Suraiyya,Kamal Kapoor (making his debut),Gope, M Ismail, Rampyaari etc. This movie was produced by Indian National Pictures Limited and it was directed by M Sadiq.
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Jab baadal ghir ghir aayenge
Posted on: September 14, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a movie produced by an official sounding Production house namely Indian National Pictures Limited. 😀
The movie was directed by M Sadiq and it had actors like Wasti , Suraiyya,Gope,Rampyaari,M Ismail etc. Kamal Kapoor who later went on to have a long career as a baddie in Hindi movies, made his debut in this movie.
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Ho ho ho chaandni raat hai
Posted on: September 13, 2011
“Daak Bangla” (1947) is a National Pictures production. It was directed by M Sadiq. This movie had Wasti, Suraiyya, Kamal Kapoor, Gope, M Ismail etc in it.
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Angdaayi teri hai bahaanaa
Posted on: September 11, 2011
“Rattan” (1944) was a movie that was musically a major milestone for Hindi movie music. The music of this movie served as a major trendsetter. The music of this movie was based on folk music, as against classical music. This ensured that movie goers, who were exposed to such music in their day to day life, were able to identify with this kind of music better. And just how well did the public identify with the music ! The music of this movie became super duper hit. Naushad became a rage, and other music directors too jumped on the bandwagon of folk music based songs.
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There are rare sings that one can come across just by stumbling against them while browsing sites like YT. But there are rare songs that cannot be discovered this way. You can find them only when you specifically look for them by the name of the movie, lyricist etc. And such songs may not even be available on YT, that is how rare they are.
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