Posts Tagged ‘Hemant Kumar’
For those who are into trivia, here is an interesting bit of information. Hemant Kumar sang just four songs under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan. All these songs were sung in 1953 and 1954. One of these songs was in “Shikast” (1953)- “Ham kathputle kaath ke” and another was in “Patita” (1953)-“Yaad kiyaa dil ne kahaan ho tum”. These songs are already posted in this blog.
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“Jaagriti” (1954) was an idealistic movie that was produced just a few years after Indian independence when people of India were in an idealisting and nation building mode. Several songs of this movie went on to become iconic songs. It is in this movie that we have songs like “Aao bachhon tumhen dikhaayen jhaaki Hindustaan ki” and “De di hamen aazaadi bina khadg bina bhaal”.
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Gora badan mora umariya baali
Posted on: January 1, 2010
After posting songs at a rate of 5-6 songs a day, I found myself unable to post even one song a day in the month of December 2009. That month I posted less than 50 songs.
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I have posted one song from “Mehandi” (1958) earlier. Here is another song from this movie.
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Saawan ki aayi hai bahaar
Posted on: December 26, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Anjaan” (1956). This by now obscure movie has Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles.
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Log peete hain ladkhadaate hain
Posted on: December 18, 2009
This song is an archtypical Hemant Kumar song that I have heard several times. But apart from the knowledge of this being a song sung by Hemant Kumar, I was blank about any other details of this song.
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How many movies with the name “Faraar” are there in bollywood ? I was aware of “Faraar” (1975) and also “Faraar” (1955). Now, it turns out that there was a “Faraar” released in 1965 as well !
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Meri baat rahi mere man mein
Posted on: November 30, 2009
“Saahib Bibi Aur Ghulam” (1962) is a landmark movie in the history of Bollywood movies. The story, the plot, the acting- all these were top class. Public as well as critics appreciated this movie.
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Aasmaan aasmaan tu kyaa jaane
Posted on: November 24, 2009
In Bollywood movies, when boy first sees a girl, he would sing a teasing song addressed to her. She would take exception, naturally, but later on, she would fall in love with him and then they would sing a duet, running round trees.
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I had never heard of this movie called “Pehli Jhalak”, but there was one movie by this name in 1954. And now that I have stumbled upon the songs of this movie, I have realised that this movie has some lovely songs in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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