Posts Tagged ‘Singer-MD’
S D Burman was not only an outstanding music director, he had a unique singing voice too which he utilised very fruitfully. He would sing sparingly, but the few songs that he sang all went on to become immortal.
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Ho Dil kaahu ko deo naa
Posted on: July 30, 2009
When one talks of “Nadiya Ke Paar”, one is mostly reminded of the Rajshri Productions movie of 1980s. But there was another movie of this name in 1948.
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How the songs of “Azaad” (1955) were composed in an interesting tale in itself.
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Bachke rahna re baba
Posted on: May 19, 2009
When one talks of “Pukaar”, one means Sohrab Modi’s historical movie of 1939. But another movie of this name was released in 1983 which had Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman and Randhir Kapoor in lead roles.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was one of the all time great musical blockbusters. Its songs have gone on to become iconic songs. C Ramchandra was the music director of this movie and Rajinder Krishan had written the lyrics.
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A few days ago, I posted a song from music director Ravi’s last movie, where he had not only composed the music, but wrote the lyrics and sang the song too. As far as singing songs is concerned, Ravi began singing from his very first movie as an independent music director.
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Ye nayan darey darey
Posted on: April 21, 2009
Hemant Kumar has sung some outstanding songs for Vishwajeet. That way, in my mind, Hemant Kumar-Vishwajeet combination of songs made for as potent a combination as say Rafi-Shammi Kapoor.
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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Tere dwaar khadaa ik jogi
Posted on: April 12, 2009
This song from “Nagin” (1954) must be one of the most hummable songs. All these days, I thought that it was a devotional song.
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Chhod de patang meri chhod de
Posted on: April 11, 2009
Though it is the music director who gets most of the credit for a song, it is the assistant music director/ music arranger who does the actual legwork, and should get the real credit.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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