Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
When one talked of a movie called “Sargam” in my younger days, the only movie of this name that I was aware of was the Rishi Kapoor Jayaprada movie of 1980. Later I came to know that a movie of the same title was released in 1950 too which was a Filmistan production. “Sargam” (1950) was directed by P L Santoshi. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Rehana, Om Prakash, Mumtaz Ali, Paro, Ratan Kumar, Chandabai, Rajendra, David Abraham, Tabassum, Radha Krishnan, Samson, Vijayalaxmi, Ramsingh, S. L. Puri, Sudesh etc in it.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Happy 83rd – the year of life.
And Happy 70th – the year of active career.
Lata Mangeshkar, born this day in 1929, started her singing career in 1942, the year she turned 13.
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I am aware of a movie called “Dil e Naadaan” (1953). It turns out that a movie of the same title was released in 1981 too.
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This song “Ganga Mein dooba na Jamuna mein dooba” was an extremely popular song of its time, viz 1970s. I was one of those who lived listening to this song and humming it too, all the while remaining totally oblivious to the details of this song. With time, this song ran its course and was forgotten with time.
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“Bidaai” (1974) was produced and directed by L V Prasad. The movie had Jeetendra, Leena Chandavarkar, Madan Puri, A. K. Hangal, Satyen Kappu, Anwar Hussain, Birbal, Jaishree T, Kanan Kaushal, Durga Khote, Dinesh Hingoo, Asrani, Jagdeep etc in it.
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Lata, who turns 83 today has sung for hundreds of music directors. Some of these music directors had some special understanding with her. Madan Mohan was one of the music directors who made the most of Lata’s singing prowess.
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When we like songs, we tend to gain information about the songs (name of the movie, actors lip syncing it etc) in due course. And then there are songs whose information continue to be nebulous though that does not stop us from enjoying these songs.
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Tere naina kyun bhar aaye
Posted on: September 28, 2012
“Geet” (1970) was produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar. This movie had Rajendra Kumar, Mala Sinha, Kumkum, Bhagwan, Sujit Kumar, Nazir Hussain, Daisy Irani, Manmohan Krishna, Tuntun, Chaman Puri etc in it.
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Today (28 september) is the birthday anniversary of Lata (28 september 1929). There is little that has not been said and written about her over the past last seven decades that she has been active as a playback singer. She had dominated Hindi movie playback scene and she is the most figured singer in this blog as well.
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