Posts Tagged ‘Qamar Jalalabadi’
This song is from 1949, just after independence. The song is recorded under primitive technological conditions, still the quality of this recording is very good. The voice of Suraiyya can still enthrall the listeners.
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Iint ki dukki pan ka ikka
Posted on: February 5, 2009
We have had quite a few songs talking about Bombay. But there have been few songs talking about other major cities.
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Tum rooth ke mat jaana
Posted on: February 3, 2009
This is a lovely song in all respects. The movie is “Phagun” (1958 ) and the song is an O P Nayyar composition sung by Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. Qamar Jalalabadi is the lyricist.
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Jab jab apna mel huaa
Posted on: January 22, 2009
Sonik Omi, who were assistants to Madan Mohan for a long time, tended to suffer a fate similar to Madan Mohan as independent music directors.They would create outstanding music, but the movies where their music would be included would fail at the box office without a whimper. As a result, the career of Sonic Omi failed to take off despite the brilliance of their music.
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Tu hai mera prem devta
Posted on: January 6, 2009
If Indian movie industry has a few famous sisters in different fields of movie making. The most well known of them being the Mangeshkar sisters who are well known in the field of movie music.Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Usha Mangeshkar are so well known that they need no introduction.
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Dono ne kiya thha pyar magar
Posted on: December 15, 2008
Sonik and Omi who were mama and bhanja acted as assistants to quite a few music directors viz Madan Mohan etc. It was in late 1960s that they started out as independent music directors.
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Dam dam diga diga
Posted on: December 13, 2008
I have listened to this song many a times and it appears a typical Raj Kapoor movie song all the way. It is obviously sung by Mukesh. And I was convinced that Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan have to be the lyricist and Music directors respectively. So I was mightily surprised to know that I was off target. The lyricist for this movie Chhaliya is Qamar Jalalabadi and the music director duo is Kalyanji Anandji for this movie. And I must say that they have done very good imitation of Shailendra and Shankar Jaikishan, who were they the top lyricist and music director in Bollywood.
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Here is an awesome comedy cum romantic song from exactly 50 years ago. It is one song that richly deserves to be brought to the notice of Bollywood music fans.
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Meri lottery lag jaane waali hai
Posted on: October 29, 2008
There are many songs that become popular in its time and then go on to achieve evergreen status. And then there are many songs that achieve considerable popularity during their time, only to get forgotten with passage of time.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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