Posts Tagged ‘Pankaj Mullick’
Kyaa hamne bigaadaa hai
Posted on: July 21, 2011
We have come a long way in discussing K L Saigal songs. We have already discussed 85 out of 130 odd K L Saigal songs available. In addition,K L Saigal also sang in a few other languages, but that is beyond the scope of this blog.
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Deewaanaa hoon deewaanaa hoon
Posted on: July 20, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Movies with the name Zindagi have been made four (or maybe five) times. As per the recorded listings, the first instance of a film named Zindagi is in 1940. This is a New Theatre Productions from Calcutta, directed by PC Barua. The primary players in this film are KL Saigal, Jamuna, Pahari Sanyal, Ashalata, Sham Laha, Nemo, Manorama, Sitara, Dhruba Kumar, Bikram Kapoor, Rajnirani, and Ramkumari etc. The screenplay for this film is adapted from the novel ‘Priya Baandhabee’ by Prabodh Sanyal.
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Laakh sahi hain pee ki batiyaan
Posted on: July 9, 2011
In olden days, men used to play the roles of women because it was not very easy to get women from decent background to appear in movies (and also dramas). Hopefully, they were able to get women to sing for themselves, I hope.
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We have been discussing one K L Saigal song a day in this blog for the last 40 odd days and now we have notched up a healthy number of K L Saigal songs ( 71) in this blog. K L Saigal sang around 104 Hindi movie songs and another 30 odd non movie songs in this language. We will cover all the K L Saigal songs that are available.
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Panchhi kaahe hot udaas
Posted on: June 21, 2011
In my daily series of K L Saigal songs, searching for “new” songs to discuss may become difficult with time. I hope that I will have at least 100 K L Saigal songs to cover before I run out of them.
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Kis ne ye sab khel rachaayaa
Posted on: June 16, 2011
“Dharti Mata” (1938) is a musical extravaganza of its time. It has several songs sung by K L Saigal in it.
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So jaa raajkumaari so jaa
Posted on: June 13, 2011
I became aware of the movie “Zindagi” (1940) only just recently, but I was familiar with a couple of songs from this movie for some four decades. I had been listening to these songs at the srtoke of 8 AM on radio many a times in 1970s.
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Main kyaa jaanoon kyaa jaadoo hai
Posted on: June 12, 2011
During late 1960s and much of 1970s, when I was growing up as a kid, I scoffed at the songs that were played on radio Ceylon between 7-30 to 8 AM, which was the time for the programme called “Puraani filmon ke geet”. And the programme culminated at the stroke of 8 with a song by K L Saigal.
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Jeewan aasha ye hai meri
Posted on: June 11, 2011
I am aware of movies called “Zindagi” that were released in 1956 and 1964. There was in fact another movie of this name as far back as in 1940. This movie, produced by New Theatre,Calcutta, had actors like K L Saigal, Ashalata, Jamuna, Pahadi Sanyal,Sham Laha, Nimmo etc in it.
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Aankh moond kar dhyaan
Posted on: June 10, 2011
“Nartaki” (1940) is a movie that had Pankaj Mullick, Leela Desai, Jagdish Sethi, Wasti etc in it.
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