Posts Tagged ‘Manna Dey’
Mat ro maata laal tere bahutere
Posted on: August 15, 2012
“Bandini” (1963) was a movie based on pre independence days when Indian was still under British occupation. “Bandini” (1963) is the story of Nutan who is serving jail sentence in a jail. The jail also has a freedom fighter who is to be hanged. This song is sung by the freedom fighter as he is being led to the gallows.
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Today (13 august) is the birthday of Vyjyanti Mala. So we in this blog, as is our practice, discuss a few songs featuring Vyjyanti Mala on this occasion.
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Tum mere swaami antaryaami
Posted on: August 7, 2012
Today (7 August) is the birth anniversary of P L Santoshi, who was a movie maker as well as a leading lyricist of 1940s and 1950s.
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“Laawaris” (1981) was Produced and directed by Prakash Mehra. The movie had Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Amjad Khan, Suresh Oberoi, Bindu, Raakhee Gulzar, Om Prakash, Ranjeet, Ram Sethi etc in it. The movie was criticised quite badly by the movie reviewer of the magazine that I used to read those days. The critic wrote that the best scene in the movie was one that had the words “The End” in it.
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Man veena madhur boley
Posted on: July 29, 2012
This article is written by Shekhar Gupta, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Before she burst on to the Bollywood scene with C.I.D. (1956) and Pyaasa (1957), Padma Bhushan Waheeda Rehman starred in two movies each in Telugu and Tamil including, as the second heroine, in the D. Yoganand directed Anjali Devi-A. Nageswara Rao starrer 1955 Telugu production Jayasimha. It was later dubbed in Hindi by P. Ramesh Naidu and released as Jai Singh in 1959.
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Suno suno hey nar naari
Posted on: July 25, 2012
Today (25 july) is the birth anniversary of Sudhir Phadke. He got very few opportunities to give music in Hindi movies. As a result, most of his musical creations are in Marathi, where he is a legend as a music composer as well as a singer.
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Main hoon ek hajjaam pyaare
Posted on: July 23, 2012
The month of July, which coincides with the Indian month of Saawan is an important month as far as Hindi movie songs are concerned. Western nations just have one day for lovers in the form of valentine days, but Hindi movies have the entire month of Saawan devoted for this purpose.
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Thahar zara o jaanewaale
Posted on: July 18, 2012
“Boot Polish” (1953) was an R K Films production. It was directed by Prakash Arora. The movie had David Abraham, Raj Kapoor, Veera, Chand Burque, Babay Naaz, Kumar, Shailendra, Bhudo Advani, Prabhu Arora etc in it.
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Apne liye jiye to kya jiye
Posted on: July 17, 2012
“Baadal” (1966) was a Super Pictures production. It was produced and directed by Aspi Irani. The movie had Sheikh Mukthar, L.Vijayalaxmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Helen, Kamal Mehra, Hira Lal, Shammi Aunty, Ratnamala, Niroo, Fazal Khan, Prem, Bob, Ali Razak etc in it.
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