Posts Tagged ‘Hansraj Bahl’
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Talat Mehmood had sung most of his duet songs mainly with Suraiyya, Geeta Dutt, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle and Sudha Malhotra. I get a feel of an affinity between the singers on the one hand and the actors on the screen on the other hand when I listen to Talat Mehmood-Geeta Dutt duets. This combination is pleasing to my ears and gives credence to what is intended in the lyrics. The song which comes to my mind in this context is ‘armaan bhare dil ki lagan tere liye hai’ from JAAN PEHCHAAN (1950).
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Raat hai nikhhri huyi
Posted on: February 10, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
I just stumbled upon a beautiful duet ‘raat hai nikhri huyi’ sung by Krishna Goyal and Geeta Dutt from the film MALLIKAA (1956) under the music direction of the great Hansraj Bahl. Tanveer Naqvi is the lyricist.
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Mohammad Hussain Farooqui is not a singer that is familiar to too many music lovers today. He worked as a playback singer in late 1940s in Hindi movies before disappearing into oblivion.
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In Hindi movies, we have songs for all occasions that touch the lives of Indians. Thus we have songs for various human feelings like joys, sorrows, love, hate etc. Then there are songs for various Indian festivals. We also have songs for special occasions like birthdays, weddings etc.
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“Khilaadi” (1950) is a Talwar Films presentation. The star cast of the movie had names like Ashok Kumar, Suraiya, Kumar, Indu, E. Tarapore, Anoop Kumar, Narbada Shanker, Sunder, Cuckoo etc in it.
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The way we were discussing Hansraj Bahl compositions in the recent past, regulars of the blog may have rightly guessed that Hansraj Bahl was reaching his milestone of 100 songs in this blog. And indeed he has now scored his century of songs in this blog. This is the 51st such occasion in the blog, and Hansraj Bahl is the 50th artist to complete a century of his songs in this blog.
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Nainon ki nagri mein aa ke
Posted on: December 26, 2011
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Welcome all to the 5200th offering on this blog. An enchanting journey that continues to grow from strength to strength, has reached another landmark today. It seemed just like yesterday that we hit the 5000 mark (it was on 13th November), and lo, we are already 200 songs even beyond that magic number today. Congratulations to all, and especially to Atul ji, for being the consistent driving force behind this effort. Besides being the 5200th post, this write up also celebrates the century of songs on this blog, by the music director Hansraj Behl.
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Sab shiqwe mitey di ke
Posted on: December 26, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Khaiber (1954) is a film that is produced by Kamal Kapoor, who is also the hero in this film. Produced under the banner of Kapil Pictures, Bombay, the film is directed by Kedar Kapoor. The leading lady is Nigar Sultana, and the rest of the star cast includes Naaz, Tiwari, Niranjan Sharma, BM Vyas, Chaman Puri, Nand Kishore, Dev Raj, Rajan Kapoor, Dichhoo Kumar (Jr.), Roop Kumar, Baby Ratan, Chiman Lal, Charanjit Kumar and Indu Pal etc.
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Haay chanda gaye pardes
Posted on: December 25, 2011
“Chakori” (1949) is by now an obscure movie. This movie was a Ramesh Pictures production. It was directed by Ramnarayan Dube. The movie had Bharat Bhushan, Nalini Jaywant, Om Prakash, Manorama, Cuckoo etc in this movie.
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