Posts Tagged ‘K L Saigal’
Kaahe gumaan kare ri gori
Posted on: June 19, 2011
“Tansen” (1943) was based on the life of the legendary musician Tansen who lived in the era of Mughal emperor Akbar and who was regarded as one of the nine jewels in emperor Akbar’s court. The title role of Tansen was layed by K L Saigal and his love angle was played by Khursheed.
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Tadpat beete din rain
Posted on: June 18, 2011
In my daily series of K L Saigal songs, here is a song that I failed to locate on youtube and so I had to upload it myself.
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In my daily discussions of K L Saigal songs, I mostly discuss solos sung by him. Here is a duet song involving K L Saigal. The other voice in this song is Suraiyya’s.
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Kis ne ye sab khel rachaayaa
Posted on: June 16, 2011
“Dharti Mata” (1938) is a musical extravaganza of its time. It has several songs sung by K L Saigal in it.
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Din neeke beete jaate hain
Posted on: June 15, 2011
“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) is one of the earliest Hindi movies “talkies” that came just two years after Indian movies began to talk. It was this movie that gave us K L Saigal.
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So jaa raajkumaari so jaa
Posted on: June 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Zindagi” (1940) only just recently, but I was familiar with a couple of songs from this movie for some four decades. I had been listening to these songs at the srtoke of 8 AM on radio many a times in 1970s.
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Main kyaa jaanoon kyaa jaadoo hai
Posted on: June 12, 2011
During late 1960s and much of 1970s, when I was growing up as a kid, I scoffed at the songs that were played on radio Ceylon between 7-30 to 8 AM, which was the time for the programme called “Puraani filmon ke geet”. And the programme culminated at the stroke of 8 with a song by K L Saigal.
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Jeewan aasha ye hai meri
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I am aware of movies called “Zindagi” that were released in 1956 and 1964. There was in fact another movie of this name as far back as in 1940. This movie, produced by New Theatre,Calcutta, had actors like K L Saigal, Ashalata, Jamuna, Pahadi Sanyal,Sham Laha, Nimmo etc in it.
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Ab main kaah karoon kit jaaun
Posted on: June 10, 2011
Just like Radio Ceylon used to play a K L Saigal song every morning at the stroke of 8 AM in the days gone by, I too am discussing a K L Saigal song every morning. Unlike Radio Ceylon, who re cycled the same usual songs, I am discussing “new” Saigal songs every day. And it is interesting to notice that K L Saigal sang songs that many people may not have heard before.
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Baag lagaa doon sajni
Posted on: June 9, 2011
“Tansen” (1943) is a movie that had K L Saigal in title role of Tansen. So naturally it follows that this movie has some nice K L Saigal songs in it.
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