Posts Tagged ‘Khemchand Prakash’
“Mumtaz Mahal” (1944) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie has Khursheed in the title role with Chandramohan,Kajjan, Sulochana Chaterjee, Lala Yakub, Brajmala etc also figuring in this movie.
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Very little is known Hindi movie songs from the earlier days, viz 1930s and 1940s. Those were the days when actors themselves sang for themselves. Sound reecording technology was in its infancy and producing decent quality records was a technological challenge. The fact that films and records quickly degraded meant that preservation of these items was a Herculean task as well.
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Ab kaun sahaaraa hai
Posted on: December 10, 2010
“Ziddi” (1948) is a movie with which Kishore Kumar began his career as a playback singer. Another youngster,viz Prem Dhawan, too began his career as a lyricist with this movie.
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Mushqil hai bahut mushqil
Posted on: December 3, 2010
“Mahal” (1949) was a movie starring Asho Kumar and a very young Madhubala. This movie is also remembered as the one which launched Lata’s career as a playback singer. Her songs in this movie became very popular and one of the songs, viz Aayega aanewaala aayega became a timeless classic.
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Ye raat phir na aayegi
Posted on: February 3, 2010
“Mahal” (1949) was one of the earliest movies of the suspense genre. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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We have seen songs picturised on Raj Kapoor that were sung mostly by Mukesh, but sometimes by other playback singers as well. For example, there were occasions when Rafi, Manna Dey, Talat Mehmood etc have sung for Raj Kapoor. In fact, in a few early movies, Raj Kapoor sang for himself !
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Marne ki duaayen kyun maangoon
Posted on: August 5, 2009
I realised belatedly that 4 August is the birthday of Kishore Kumar, the much beloved multi faceted genius of Bollywood.
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Barso re barso re
Posted on: May 7, 2009
I had posted a nice song sung by Khursheed from “Tansen” (1943) in the past. Here is another song of the same genre where she sings about baadal and ghata.
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Ghata ghanghor
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I had never heard this song before. And few people may have heard this song considering that this is from a very old movie called “Tansen” (1943). This movie, as the name suggests was the story of Tansen, the court singer of Akbar. The lead actors in this movie were K L Saigal and Khursheed.
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More baalpan ke saathi
Posted on: March 4, 2009
Here is another K L Saigal song. This song is in fact a duet from a 1942 movie called “Tansen”.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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