Posts Tagged ‘Pannalal Ghosh’
“Basant” (1942) was a Bombay Talkies production. It was directed by Amiya Chakraborty. The movie had Ulhas, Mumtaz Shanti, Pramila, Jagannath, Suresh, Baby Mumtaz (Madhubala), Kanu Roy, Pithawala etc in it.
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ummeed unse kyaa thhi
Posted on: December 20, 2010
“Basant” (1942) is a very important movie in the annals of Hindi movies. In this movie Ulhas and Mumtaz Shanti play stage performers. Naturally this movie has several songs picturised on them. Later on, their daughter (baby Mumtaz, who was none other than Madhubala) also starts performing on stage.
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Balam dheere bol koi sun legaa
Posted on: November 2, 2010
In the past, I have discussed a couple of songs from “Basant” (1942) which is quite an important movie in the annals of Hindi movies, because this movie introduced Madhubala, who then was a young kid and was credited as baby Mumtaz.
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I had posted one song from “Basant” (1942) where nine year old Madhubala (then known as Baby Mumtaz) is shown singing a song. What a rare find that was for Bollywood movie buffs !
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In Bollywood, if a child has to sing, then most of the time it is a female singer who gives playback for the child.I thought that a child singing for a child actor in Bollywood movies is a phenomenon that started in “Masoom” (1960) and later in “Andaz” (1971), but I find that I was wrong.
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Here is yet another popular song out of seemingly endless number of such songs from the movie “Basant Bahaar”.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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