Posts Tagged ‘Pradeep’
As bicycle songs go, this must be the ultimate bicycle song. In this song, people ,led by Johny Walker, are riding bicycles and going in a procession singing this song. I have not watched the movie, but what I can deduce from the picturisation and the lyrics is that they are raising their voices against a person in authority who is using his public office for personal gains. So such things happened in those days also. 🙂
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Hindi movies often have background songs in them, which gets played at a critical juncture in the movie. Such songs may get played either at the beginning of the song, end of the song, or at some other important occasion.
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Main natkhat ik kali
Posted on: July 2, 2011
“Do Behnen”(1959) is a movie that few people are aware of. It is this movie that had one of the iconic Pradeep songs viz Mukhdaa dekh le praani zaraa darpan mein .
This movie in fact has some very nice songs in it which deserve to be better known among music lovers.
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Radha Radha pyaari Radha
Posted on: July 2, 2011
I have discussed songs from a 1959 movie called “Kangan”. It turns out that there was another movie of the same name that was released exactly two decades before this movie. This older movie, viz “Kangan” (1939) had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles.
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Sainyyaa pyaaraa hai apna milan
Posted on: June 21, 2011
“Do Behnen” (1959) is not a movie that too many people know much about. this obscure movie had Rajendra Kumar and Shyama in lead roles.
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Hallo hallo o meri chhammak chhallo
Posted on: June 19, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hinsi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
School Master (1959) is a significant contribution of the famous Kannada actor-director BR Panthulu. This movie was made in several languages (Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi), and its theme and storyline has been copied and remade several times, the latest being the Amitabh-Hema starrer Baghbaan in 2003.
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Ek dharti ka rajkumar
Posted on: June 18, 2011
“Chandi Pooja” (1957) was a B grade mythological movie picturised with small time actors. The movie itself turned out to be no great shakes, but one of its songs went on to become a timeless classic. This song is Koi laakh kare chaturaayi sung by Pradeep with his usual fervour and Midas touch.
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In Hindi movies, most songs are picturised on the lead actors. But then there are certain songs which are either background songs or songs picturised on lesser actors. These songs are often sung by part time singers who are better known for some other activities in movies. For instance, these singers may be better known as lyricists or music directors.
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“Kismat” (1943) was the first ever multistarrer Hindi movie. It had Ashok Kumar and Mumtaz Shanti in lead roles.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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