Posts Tagged ‘R C Boral’
Ghungharwaa baaje chhananana chhan
Posted on: July 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Street Singer (1938) is a landmark creation from New Theatres, Calcutta. Directed by the legendary Phani Majumdar, the star cast of this movie includes KL Saigal, Kaanan Devi. Bikram Kapoor, Subeer, Jagdeesh, Boken Chatto, Chamanlal, Abdul Rehman, Ram Kumari, Nirmal Bannerjee etc. The movie has as many as thirteen songs. The lyrics are created by Aarzoo Lucknowi, and the music composition is by another legend, RC Boral. Four of the more famous and familiar songs are already discussed on this blog, including the inimitable “Baabul Moraa Naihar Chhooto Hi Jaaye”. This song is a duet sung by Saigal Saab and Kaanan Devi.
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Prem ki ho jai jai
Posted on: July 24, 2011
“Chandidas”(1934) was one of the earliest movies in which K L Saigal appeared. In this movie, he sang four songs. Three of them, which are relatively better known and are available on youtube have already been discussed in this blog.
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Jagat mein prem hi prem bhara hai
Posted on: July 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Krorepati (alias Millionaire) is a 1936 production from New Theatres Calcutta, directed by Hem Chander. The music compositions for this movie are shared by RC Boral and Pankaj Mullick. There is a total of 12 songs in this movie, of which 4 are composed by RC Boral and 8 by Pankaj Mullick. As fortune would have it, the recordings of all the 8 songs composed by Pankaj Mullick are not available from any source so far.
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Jo naukri dilaa de
Posted on: July 16, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
The versatility of Saigal Saab never ceases to amaze. Given that only 185 recordings of his songs are available, may the history of Indian cinema have been different, had Saigal Saab lived a longer life.
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In the series of K L Saigal songs that we have undertaken in this blog, here is another remarkable song. This song is from K L Saigal’s earliest movie, viz “Pooran Bhagat” (1933).As many as four songs from this movie have been discussed, including three K L Saigal songs, and all of them are immortal songs. And this song is no different.
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Bhajoon main to bhaav se
Posted on: June 30, 2011
“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) came just two years after the first Hindi talkie came up in 1931, and it is one of the oldest movie whose songs have been discussed in this movie.
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Ye kaisa anyaay daataa
Posted on: June 26, 2011
I have reached such a stage in discussing K L Saigal songs that now very few youtube videos involving K L Saigal songs have been left untouched. Very few of the remaining songs of K L Saigal may be available on youtube.
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Tadpat beete din rain
Posted on: June 18, 2011
In my daily series of K L Saigal songs, here is a song that I failed to locate on youtube and so I had to upload it myself.
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