Posts Tagged ‘Gyan Dutt’
Nainheen ko raah dikhaa prabhu
Posted on: June 6, 2011
I have found that “Bhakt Surdas” (1942) is a treasure of great K L Saigal songs. I have already discussed a few such songs.
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Madhukar Shyaam hamaare chor
Posted on: June 1, 2011
“Bhakt Surdas” (1942) is a treasure of some great vintage songs, as I have been discovering.
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Chaandni raat aur taare khile hon
Posted on: May 27, 2011
In my younger days, K L Saigal was a “boring” singer, but now I can not have enough of K L Saigal songs. I find listening to K L Saigal songs a divine experience these days, as it reminds me of those days several decades ago, when most radios in India would play radio Ceylon in early mornings. 7-30 to 8 AM was the most “boring” period on Radio Ceylon, as it was during this time that “puraani filmon ke geet” were played, culminating into a K L Saigal song as the last song.
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Madhur madhur gaa re manwaa
Posted on: April 17, 2011
Hindi movies prior to independence are movies which had actors about whom very little is known today. Except some well known names of those days, others have been forgotten.
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Dil do nainon mein kho gayaa
Posted on: December 26, 2010
“Sunahre Din” (1949) was a movie where Raj Kapoor, a newcomer was paired opposite Rehana, an established star of the times. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have discussed a couple of songs from this movie already.
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“Dilruba” (1950) has some awesome songs in it. In fact I have discussed as many as five songs from this movie. In fact I was so impressed with one song ( Dhak dhak karti chali jeewan ki rail re )of this movie that I had posted that as the 2000th song of this blog.
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Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted on: December 22, 2010
Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
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Tum mere dil mein chale aate ho
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Dilruba” (1950) is a movie that has largely been forgotten. This movie had Dev Anand, Rehana, Yaaqoob, Cuckoo, Balam, Achala Sachdev and Gogiya Pasha in lead roles.
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Bollywood movies and Indian Railways are two of the major unifying factors for this vast nation of India. And these two often come face to face. We have people sitting in railway trains and singing songs (ask beggars on local trains) and on the other hand we have movies depicting songs sung in trains.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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