Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kapoor’
Rasiya re man basiya se
Posted on: September 5, 2009
Here is a beautiful song from “Pardesi” (1957) which is quite well known, though people may not be aware about the details of the song.
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Chaand so gayaa taare so gaye
Posted on: August 21, 2009
Here is a song from a by now forgotten movie called “Raahi” (1953). Dev Anand and Achala Sachdev were the lead actors in this movie.
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I have just read about the songs of “Aag” (1948) and I am only just discovering them.
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Teri nazron kaa paake ishaara
Posted on: June 22, 2009
Can anyone believe that there was a Bollywood movie called “Lucky Number” in 1961 ? The movie of course was not lucky enough and few people today remember this movie.
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Dil hamko dhoondhta hai
Posted on: June 3, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Return of Mr Superman”. This movie had some interesting songs. Music director of this movie was Anil Biswas.
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Stella O Stella
Posted on: June 2, 2009
“A” grade movies were not the only movies that get made in Bollywood. There are many B grade, C grade…Z grade movies which also got made. Most of these movies failed to register in the radar of mainsteam audience.
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Kisi ko yoon tamannaon mein..Meri jaan chaahne waalon ko tadpaayaa nahin karte
Posted on: May 31, 2009
Here is a rare song from an unheard of movie. The movie is called “Return of Mr Superman” (1960).
This song is written by Manmohan Sabir and the music director is Anil Biswas. The song was sung by Meena Kapoor, who was Anil Biswas’ wife.
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Chaandi ka badan sone ki nazar
Posted on: May 16, 2009
I have posted over a thousand songs in this blog so far. Most songs are 3 to 4 minutes long and their lyrics are about 200 words long. But this qawwali is nearly ten minutes long and its lyrics runs into 800 words !
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It is widely believed by people that western music was introduced in bollywood in 1960s by R D Burman and that Hinglish lyrics began to be used in 1980s. One is way off the mark if one believes so.
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“Ankhen” (1950) was the debut movie of Madan Mohan as a music director. He used quite a few singers as well as lyricists in this movie. I have already posted a song that was sung by Raj Khosla whose lyrics were written by B D Mishra.
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