Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Jaate ho to jaao ham bhi yahaan
Posted on: October 19, 2010
I have mentioned in the past that I intend to discuss all Sajjad Hussain songs in this blog that I could locate. Out of about 100 Hindi movie songs that Sajjad Hussain composed in his career, I have already discussed 27 songs. Searching for the remainder of the songs is turning out to be rather more difficult than expected (or perhaps I should have expected that) because many of the songs are quite obscure (as are the movies that these songs belong to). Even the information pertaining to these songs is difficult to find.
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Mere mehboob mein kyaa nahin
Posted on: October 16, 2010
Two female singers dancing in tandem was a staple diet of B grade historical/ mythological movies of 1960s. But here we find the same thing happening in a Muslim social movie. The movie is “Mere Mehboob” (1963) and here Sadhana and Ameeta are found dancing and singing joyously. They sing in the voices of Lata and Asha Bhonsle respectively.
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Sun lo dil ka afsaanaa
Posted on: October 12, 2010
In Hindi movies, songs were traditionally recorded twice- once for the picturisation and once for the audio (for the record company). The audio records were typically released prior to the release of the movie.
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Ae hawaa ye bataa
Posted on: October 10, 2010
Few people today may have heard of this movie called “Ghazab” (1982). I , on the other hand, not only know about this movie, I have seen this movie and it is one of those movies that I liked. The story of this movie was different and that made me like this movie.
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“Ghar” (1978) was the story of the ordinary life of an ordinary couple, which was a refreshing change from the larger than life stories depicted in most mainstream movies.
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Normally I post a mix of songs everyday that span decades, singers, actors, music directors etc. But there are special occasions when the songs posted in the blog may have something in common.
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Balmaa anaadi man bhaaye
Posted on: October 9, 2010
These days I do not have the patience to sit through a Hindi movie. I instead watch the songs and try to guess the plot from the songs.
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Muskuraao ke jee nahin lagtaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Nirupa Roy is known among movie watchers as the actress playing long suffering mother of Amitabh Bachchan in several movies of 1970s. But that is not how she began her career. She was a lead actress in hindi movies for much of 1950s and 1960s, before age caught up with her and she began playing those Maa roles.
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