Posts Tagged ‘Hemant Kumar’
I had heard this song in passing in the past, without paying much attention, and without being aware which movie this song is from. This time I listened to (and watched) this song in the right earnest, and I was suitably impressed.
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Man moraa naache tan moraa naache
Posted on: August 29, 2009
The more songs I post in this blog, the more I realise how less I know about the songs of the past. There are so many gems lying forgotten that if we can rediscover them all, we will have hundreds, if not thousands of re discoverd wonderful songs that have been left behind for our enjoyment by some great masters of yesteryears.
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Ho jabse mili tose ankhiyaan
Posted on: August 29, 2009
I stumbled upon this superb song just now. This song is from a forgotten movie called “Amaanat” (1955) which had Bharat Bhooshan and Chaand Usmaani in lead roles. This song is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. And what a wonderful song this is. Listening to this song just once is enough to make one like this song.
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I had posted a superb comedy song from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself. I now find that this movie, apart from this comedy song, had some superb semi classical songs sung by Lata and Hemant Kumar.
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Sapne suhaane ladakpan ke
Posted on: August 28, 2009
“Bees Saal Baad” is a memorable movie on several counts. It was not only a landmark movie of its genre, it was a musical blockbuster too.
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I had posted a remarkable comedy song from “Bandi” (1957) which was sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on hmself. Now I find that this movie has a great serious song too, once again sung by Kishore Kumar and picturised on himself.
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Ek roz hamaari bhi daal galegi
Posted on: August 25, 2009
When I look at the star cast of “Bandi” (1957), I notice that it had all the Ganguly brothers viz Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar in it and the three leading ladies in this movies were Bina Rai, Shyama and Nanda. That way this movie must have been like “Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi”. I wonder what happened to “Bandi” at the box office. With this kind of star cast, the movie certainly promised so much.
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Here is a song from a movie called “Heer” (1956). It is a duet sung by Geeta Dutt and Hemant Kumar. Majrooh Sultanpuri is the lyricist and Anil Biswas composed the music.
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Hemant Kumar was a singer whose voice was tailormade for singing “chaayaageet” songs. And he had been singing such songs from the time when even this term “Chaayaageet” was not coined because the radio channel that broadcasted this programme was non existent those days.
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