Posts Tagged ‘Manhar Desai’
“Madaari” (1959) was a quintessential B grade movie. Such movies normally remained confined to their dedicated fans and failed to register among the mainstream movie watchers. But in some rare cases, the songs of such movies became so popular that mainstream movie watchers were made to sit up and take notice.
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Jaao chamka subah ka taaraa
Posted on: June 28, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
A soft song of separation from the 1952 movie, Hyderabad Ki Naazneen. Arunkumar ji has provided a brief about this movie in one of his earlier comments. I reproduce it here with some edits.
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Yahaan raat kisi ki rotey katey
Posted on: June 15, 2011
The experiences of listening to songs sung by different singers are different. When one listens to a song sung by Mukesh, one expects a song that one would begin to hum as soon as one listens to it. One also expects the fabled Midas touch of Mukesh in full flow which ensured that most songs sung by Mukesh became popular.
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Duniyaa mein jeenaa hi padegaa
Posted on: June 1, 2011
“Hyderabad Ki Naazneen” (1952) is an obsure movie with equally obscure music. But I keep finding myself coming back to this discuss songs from this movie. The movie is studded with forgotten gems that few people are aware of.
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Mere dil ki nagariyaa mein aanaa
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Madhosh”(1951) is a movie that had Manhar Desai, Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran in lead roles. Talat Mehmood sung for Manhar Desai, whereas Lata sang for both the leading ladies. Thankfully the two leading ladies did not sing a duet together, else we do not know what the music directors would have done. 🙂
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Shamaa se koi kah de
Posted on: March 15, 2011
Golden era of Hindi movie music saw a plethora of musical talents that enriched Hindi movie music with their contribution. It is not that only big name artists contributed, even those artists who struggled to get opportunities and who worked in so called B grade movies also contributed their mite. some of them in fact deserved to getmany more assignments than what they finally ended up with.
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This movie “Madhosh” (1951) was one of the earliest movies of Madan Mohan as a music director and also Meena Kumari as an actress. This movie had Manhar Desai, Meena Kumari and Usha Kiran in lead roles.
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Chanda re mori patiya le jaa
Posted on: March 28, 2009
I have read a lot about this song, but believe me, it is only yesterday that I heard this song for the first time. And I loved this song instantly.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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