Posts Tagged ‘Jairaj’
This post is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog
The golden age of Bollywood film music is studded with many a stars who have been instrumental in creating wondrous melodies in all moods and rhythms. This includes stellar performers in all aspects of music, i.e. lyrics, composition and singing. As one looks back at the decades of 1930s to 1970s, there are many well known names that are considered shining stars of Hindi film music.
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Songs in the old days were often like works of art that were carefully crafted by master craftsmen. Their artistry resulted in masterpieces that needed to be admired.
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“Singaar”(1949) is a musical extravaganza. It has so many songs in it that I have been unable to satisfactorily count them.
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O bedardi yoon hamko sataa naa
Posted on: December 7, 2010
“Singaar” (1949) is a movie starring Suraiyya, Jairaj, Madhubala. It has so many songs in it that I wonder whether this movie has any time left for dialogues.
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I recall this song from my younger days. This has to be the ultimate chaayaageet song. I recall listening to this song emanating from radios late at night after 10 PM and wondering why they had to play such boring songs at that time. And now, when I stumbled upon this song again, I felt like I had discovered a great treasure.
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Naa naa naa barso baadal
Posted on: August 28, 2009
Small time Bollywood movie producers tended to make movies of historical / mythologicals subjects in 1950s and 1960s. Most of these movies were C grade movies and the mainstream movie watchers kept away from them.
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Pyaara pyaara ye samaa
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Laal Quila”(1960) was a C grade movie with lesser known actors and its music was by S N Tripathi, the biggest name in music direction in such movies.
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Kisi ko yoon tamannaon mein..Meri jaan chaahne waalon ko tadpaayaa nahin karte
Posted on: May 31, 2009
Here is a rare song from an unheard of movie. The movie is called “Return of Mr Superman” (1960).
This song is written by Manmohan Sabir and the music director is Anil Biswas. The song was sung by Meena Kapoor, who was Anil Biswas’ wife.
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Parwar digaare aalam
Posted on: March 3, 2009
This movie “Hatimtai” (1956) was a C grade movie, the kind of movie which is lucky to see the light of day, and which is destined to pass into oblivion soon thereafter.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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