Posts Tagged ‘Majrooh Sultanpuri’
Toote naa dil toote naa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
“Andaaz” (1949) has over a dozen songs. Mukesh is the male playback singer who sings for Dilip Kumar in this movie. Almost all these songs are apparently piano songs.
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Jhoom jhoom ke naacho aaj
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted a piano song from “Andaaz” (1949) yesterday. Here is another piano song from the same movie.
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Tu kahe agar
Posted on: April 23, 2009
It has been pointed out to me that I have posted only one song from “Andaz”(1949) whereas this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbusters of all time and a milestone in Bollywood history, musically as well as otherwise.
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Gaa mere man gaa
Posted on: April 21, 2009
I have posted several nice songs from the movie “Lajwanti” (1958). This movie had some very good songs in it sung mainly by Asha Bhonsle. Majrooh Sultanpuri was the lyricist and S D Burman composed the music.
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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In 1950s and 1960s, most leading actors stuck to the some particualar playback singers, whose voices, they thought suited them. Thus we had Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, Rafi singing for Shammi Kapoor etc.
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Koi hamdam na raha
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Kishore Kumar, who was mainly known for acting in funny roles tended to make serious movies when he himself made movies ( “Chalti ka naa gaadi” being an exception).
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Khushi ki wo raat aa gayi
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have not posted a Mukesh song for quite a while. Here is a Mukesh song from “Dharti Kahe Pukaar ke” (1969).
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I recall listening to this song called “Likha hai teri aankhon me kiska afsaana” during my younger days,but I had no idea which movie this song was from. It is only yesterday that I came to know that this song was from “Teen Deviyaan”.
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Jalte hain jiske liye
Posted on: April 14, 2009
“Sujata” (1959) was a sad movie, from whatever little I have gathered about it. I have not been able to watch it ( I cannot stand sad movies) but its music is a different matter altogether. S D Burman created some immortal music in this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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