Posts Tagged ‘Rajkumari’
Saajan ghar aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2011
“Station Master” (1942) is a movie that had Prem Adeeb and Ratnamala in lead roles. It was in this movie that Suraiyya, then 13 years of age, made her Hindi movie debut under the name of Baby Suraiyya. It was in this movie that she got to sung her first song, which was picturised on herself.
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“Naubahaar” (1952) was a musical blockbuster and critics continued to rave about the songs of this movie for decades. I, who disliked old songs as a pre teen kid had also read about the songs of “Naubahaar” in 1970s.
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Arri o mohe chhed gayaa
Posted on: December 16, 2010
I have so far discussed songs from “Singaar” (1949) that were sung by Suraiyya and Surinder Kaur and picturised on Suraiyya and Madhubala respectively. This movie also has songs sung by other singers and picturised on lesser actors.
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In Hindi movies, one actor normally lip sync in the voice of one playback singer. But there are exceptions, when he/she sings different songs in the voice of different singers.
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Ae chaand tu bataa de
Posted on: July 25, 2010
Here is a song from a very old movie called “Humaayun” (1945). Now 1945 was a different era altogether. Those were the days when the legends of today were no longer legends and we had an entirely different set of legends those days.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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