Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Khudaa nigehbaan ho tumhaaraa
Posted on: April 15, 2010
“Mughal e Azam” (1960) was a mega block buster in all respects, be it the movie, or its music. There were several songs in this movie and almost all of them have gone on to become evergreen iconic songs.
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“Baadshah” (1954) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Pradeep Kumar, Usha Kiran and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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“Udan Khatola” (1955) is a movie that had some nice songs in it. As many as three songs from this movie had figured in the list of top 16 songs of the year 1955 in the Binaca geetmala annual list of 1955.
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For those who are into trivia, here is an interesting bit of information. Hemant Kumar sang just four songs under the music direction of Shankar Jaikishan. All these songs were sung in 1953 and 1954. One of these songs was in “Shikast” (1953)- “Ham kathputle kaath ke” and another was in “Patita” (1953)-“Yaad kiyaa dil ne kahaan ho tum”. These songs are already posted in this blog.
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This song was a popular song during its time. When I listened to it, I thought that R D Burman was the music director. It was only much later that I realised that the music director was not R D Burman , but a newcomer called Bappi Lahiri. Yes, Bappi Lahiri was creating great impression in the minds of music lovers. He had created some nice music in “Zakhmee” (1975), his debut music and then in “Chalte Chalte” (1976).
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Purvaiyya leke chali meri naiyya
Posted on: April 8, 2010
This song was a reasonably popular song of its time and people would love listening to this song, even if they were not aware about the details of this song.
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“Lahore” (1949) is a love story that begins at Lahore in pre- independence days.Nargis and Karan Dewan falling in love there. Then independence leads to partition and violence. They are separated in the aftermath of partition. The two finally reunite at Delhi when a Muslim protects Nargis brings her to Delhi.That way, the story of “Lahore” is somewhat similar to the story of “Chhaliya” (1959).
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Ibtidaa e ishq mein ham
Posted on: March 30, 2010
“Hariyali Aur Raastaa” (1962) had Manoj Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles. This movie had some nice songs in it. I have posted three songs from “Hariyali Aur Raastaa” (1962) in the past.
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These days I am posting the songs of “Munimji” (1955). This movie had Dev Anand and Nalini Jaiwant in lead roles.
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Un aankhon mein neend kahaan
Posted on: March 30, 2010
I have posted over 100 songs composed by Madan Mohan in this blog. It means that over 10 % of all Madan Mohan songs have been included in this blog. I hope that a time will come when almost all songs of Madan Mohan will be available here. In fact I hope that some day almost all the songs of all the great music directors will be available here.
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