Posts Tagged ‘Geeta Dutt’
Kishore Kumar made his debut as a playback singer in 1948 when he sang for Dev Anand in “Ziddi” (1948). For nearly two decades after that, he remained a marginal singer who only sang for himself and occasionally for others (read Dev Anand).
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Here it is again. One more century of songs ! Yes, this song is 3200th song of this blog !
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I have discussed as many as 37 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in Hindi movies. Finding the remaining songs composed by him (he composed about 100 such songs) is proving to be a tall order, as these songs are rare songs, which are not easy to find.
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Aayi bahaar muskuraayi bahaar
Posted on: November 12, 2010
Here is an A grade song from a B grade movie called “Roop Kumari” (1956). This movie had Shakila and Mahipal in lead roles. Considering that the song is sung by Geeta Dutt, it can be assumed that the song was picturised on Shakila.
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From the name, this movie “Shree Ganesh Mahima” (1950) appears a B grade small budget movie and indeed that is what it was. The musical team of this movie consisted of S N Tripathi as music director and Anjum Jaipuri as the lyricist.
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I have mentioned it many a timers that the golden era of Hindi movie music had great music coming from everywhere. Not only well known movies with well known composers, even C grade movies with lesser known composers were creating great music those days. Many of these lesser known songs and movies have been forgotten with time. Looking for these forgotten song and listening to them (often for the first time) is a highly rewarding experience.
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When I was a kid, I thought that most Hindi movie songs were love songs, and there were few songs of other categories. But now I know better. One can see that the Hindi movie songs fall into several categories. One song itself can belong to several categories.
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25th october is the date when Sahir Ludhianvi left this world in 1980, exactly three decades ago.
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I have so far discussed 32 songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in this blog. Considering that he composed about 100 songs, I have discussed one third of all the songs composed by him in Hindi movies.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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