Posts Tagged ‘K L Saigal’
Suno suno hey Krishn kaalaa
Posted on: July 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With the songs of Saigal Saab, there is an interesting phenomena; every time you listen to one of his renditions, the mind’s response is that there is nothing better than this soulful song or ghazal just heard. And then one gets to hear another song or ghazal, and the mind searches for newer adjectives now to suit another creation by this perceptive artist.
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Laakh sahi hain pee ki batiyaan
Posted on: July 9, 2011
In olden days, men used to play the roles of women because it was not very easy to get women from decent background to appear in movies (and also dramas). Hopefully, they were able to get women to sing for themselves, I hope.
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Main panchhi aazaad
Posted on: July 8, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This wonderful song is from the film Tadbeer (1945). The film was produced and directed by Jayant Desai, and featured KL Saigal, Suraiyyaa, Mubarak, Rehana, Jillo, Salvi, Reva Shankar, Shalini, and Shashi Kapoor as a child actor. Born in 1938, Shashi would be just seven years when this film was released. It is possible that this could be his debut movie or definitely one of the very first few movies that he acted in. (I have not been able to track specific information on this).
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We have been discussing one K L Saigal song a day in this blog for the last 40 odd days and now we have notched up a healthy number of K L Saigal songs ( 71) in this blog. K L Saigal sang around 104 Hindi movie songs and another 30 odd non movie songs in this language. We will cover all the K L Saigal songs that are available.
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Din se duguni ho jaayen ratiyaan
Posted on: July 5, 2011
Hindi movie songs is a vast ocean and so far we in this blog have only been to the surface with occasional plunges. We have only covered a small fraction of all the songs that are lying out there. However, when it comes to songs of K L Saigal, we have made considerable progress. Almost all K L Saigal Hindi movie songs that are available on youtube have been disussed. The remaining Hindi filmsongs of K L Saigal are not available on youtube/dailymotion. So one needs to upload these hitherto unavailable songs in order to discuss them here. And that is what I have been doing with K L saigal movie song these days.
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In the series of K L Saigal songs that we have undertaken in this blog, here is another remarkable song. This song is from K L Saigal’s earliest movie, viz “Pooran Bhagat” (1933).As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed, including three K L Saigal songs, and all of them are immortal songs. And this song is no different.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Sheikh Muhammad Ibrahim “Zauq” is considered as a leading light amongst the Urdu poets across all ages in the subcontinent. Born in 1789, he was the son of a lowly placed soldier in the Mughal Army. He was educated in the ‘maktab’ (elementary religious school) under the tutelage of Hafiz Ghulam Rasool. Hafiz saab was a poet himself, and used to write ghazals under the pen name of ‘shauk’. Under this influence, Muhammad Ibrahim got addicted to poetry, and himself started to write under the pen name of ‘Zauq’.
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Hasraten khaamosh hain
Posted on: July 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
“Hain Sabse Madhur Wo Geet Jinhen Hum Dard Ke Sur Mein Gaate Hain” – so are the lines that Shailendra has written for the song in Patita (1953), echoing the words of another great poet, Percy Shelley who wrote (150 years earlier) – “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought”. So it is not a wonder that the songs that tell of sorrow, are the ones that sound the sweetest and are the dearest to our hearts.
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Bhajoon main to bhaav se
Posted on: June 30, 2011
“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) came just two years after the first Hindi talkie came up in 1931, and it is one of the oldest movie whose songs have been discussed in this movie.
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