Posts Tagged ‘Meena Kumari’
As special songs go, this song is very special indeed. Let me enumerate why this song is special.
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“Bahaaron ki Manzil” was a movie starring Dharmendra, Meena Kumari and Rehman.
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Mera nanha kanhaiyya ghar aaya
Posted on: July 8, 2009
I have posted a few “lullaby” songs in this blog, where the mother sings lullabies to her young one. But that is not the only kind of songs that Bollywood mothers sing to their children.
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Most movies in which Madan Mohan gave music are obscure movies. But the music in all those movies, irrespective of the quality of such movies (indifferent most of the time) has always been top quality.
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Intazaar aur abhi aur abhi aur abhi
Posted on: July 5, 2009
Meena Kumari debuted in early 1950 and played happy roles most of the time. Many of these movies are lovely family entertainers where she would typically act with Kishore Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Daisy Irani etc.
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Earlier I had posted a superb song sung by Geeta Dutt on Meena Kumari from the movie “Tamasha” (1952). Here is another forgotten gem from the same movie.
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Wow ! Here is yet another forgotten gem that I discovered just now.
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So Jaa dukhiyaare
Posted on: June 24, 2009
Earlier, I have posted a Lata song picturised on Maa-Beta ( played by Meena Kumari and Daisy Irani) and the music was composed by Hemant Kumar.
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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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Saanwariyaa tumhaari nazar laagi
Posted on: June 20, 2009
I do not think too many people may be aware of this movie called “Aadil e Jahangir”(1955). I certainly was not. I recently found out that this movie was directed by G P Sippy, who is better known today for being the producer of “Sholay” (1975). This movie was one of the five movies that he directed. Otherwise he was mainly a producer of movies.
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