Posts Tagged ‘Lata’
I have so far posted three songs from “Shaagird” (1967), but the most popular song of this movie was not one of them.
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Raat hai suhaani o nindiyaa raani
Posted on: June 24, 2009
Just like there are hit pairs of hero and heroine in movies, there used to be a hit pair of mother and child in 1950s. Meena Kumari would play mother of Daisy Irani in several movies.
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Dabe labon se kabhi jo koyi
Posted on: June 23, 2009
I stumble upon so many “new” songs from yesteryears that I have stopped getting surprised. I am just pleased every time I get to listen to such songs for the first time.
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Aayi abke saal deewaali
Posted on: June 23, 2009
“Haqeeqat” (1964) was a movie full of wonderful songs. The movie itself was depressing for the Indian audience, considering the storyline of the movie.
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Meri raaton ka mahtaab tu hai
Posted on: June 22, 2009
I have mentioned it that finding any information about music director Ganesh is extremely difficult, even though almost every song that he composed is a gem.
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Pyaara pyaara ye samaa
Posted on: June 22, 2009
“Laal Quila”(1960) was a C grade movie with lesser known actors and its music was by S N Tripathi, the biggest name in music direction in such movies.
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Dil hai lutaa huaa jahaan
Posted on: June 22, 2009
I was aware of “Talaash” of 1969, but I did not know that there was another movie of the same name that was released in 1957.
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Chaahe paas ho chahe door ho
Posted on: June 21, 2009
It is a very well known song from an obscure movie called “Samrat Chandragupta” (1958). Considering that this movie was a historical/ mythological fare, it must have been a B grade movie. Kalyanji was the music director of this movie. This must have been his debut movie as a music director. Later he roped in his younger brother Anandji to form their music director partnership of Kalyanji Anandji in subsequent movies.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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