Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
Few people have any idea that there was a movie called “Fashion” (1957). One does not expect much from the songs of a movie with such a name.
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Mera naram karejwaa dol gayaa
Posted on: September 23, 2009
There have been several movies called “Aarzoo”. There was one “Aarzoo” in 1966 where Shankar Jaikishan’s hit music had helped the movie become a big box office success. There was another movie of this name that was released in 1951. This movie had songs of different genre and they too had become popular in their times.
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Raat hai taaron bhari
Posted on: September 23, 2009
When one talks of a movie called “Pardes”, one may be reminded of a recent movie (recent by the standards of this blog) that was released in 1997. But the first movie of this name was released as far back as in 1950.
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Ye albeli pyaar ki raahein
Posted on: September 22, 2009
“Dharti” (1970) was one of the last movies in which both Rajendra Kumar and Waheeda Rehman were seen in lead roles. By this time both had begun to show their ages and were soon upstaged by younger and fresher faces.
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Ritu aaye ritu jaaye sakhi ri
Posted on: September 22, 2009
When Bollywood movie music was in its early decades, it was carefully nursed and nurtured by some of the finest musical talents available. Most of the music dirrectors in the industry at that time had solid grooming in classical music. They were quality conscious while creating their music, and they were quite innovative and imaginative too.
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Nirupa Roy, whom most movie goers recall as the perenielly suffering Maa of Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor, was actually a full fledged heroine in 1950s. She mostly acted as a leading lady in mythological movies opposite actors like Pradeep Kumar, Mahipal, Bharat Bhooshan etc.
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Tere sab gham mile mujhko
Posted on: September 21, 2009
I was not aware of this movie called “Hamdard” (1953). Now I have some information about this movie. “Hamdard” (1953) starred Nimmi, Shekhar and Smriti Biswas, and from the songs, the story appears a love triangle involving the abovementioned three actors.
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I have posted a song from “Teen Batti Chaar Raastaa” (1953) in the past. This movie was the story of a house maid, who is as plain looking as many house maids, but with a golden voice, and many people who listen to her voice on Radio think that she must be an attractive looking lady.
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I have posted several “lullabies” (lori) in this blog. This song too is a lori, but with a major difference from the normal lallabies.
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Kahaan ho tum zaraa aawaaz do
Posted on: September 20, 2009
“Malhaar” (1951) had some wonderful songs in it. I have posted a couple of songs in this blog and I need to post more songs from this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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