Posts Tagged ‘Suman Kalyanpur’
Nand nandan bilmaai
Posted on: January 28, 2013
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
January 28th is the birth day of playback singer Suman Kalyanpur. She is a living example of how the career of a talented singer can be marred by a close resemblance of the voice of the numero uno singer in the field, in her case Lata Mangeshkar. Naturally, film industry preferred the reigning queen rather than giving enough opportunity to Suman Kalyanpur to prove her worth. She was mostly used as a substitute for Lata Mangeshkar when the latter was not available for recording the songs. Alternatively, she would get the singing assignments in low budget films. In the circumstances, I thought that she would have utilised her spare time in recording many NFSs. I find that even in respect of NFSs, Suman Kalyanpur is lagging in numbers in comparison to other top playback singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh etc. Was she really interested in pursuing playback singing career ? She is known to be a very private and low profile person. Only those who were close to her could get to know her mind. It took Ameen Sayani more than 40 years to persuade her to give an interview for a radio programme. Subsequently, she has given a couple of interviews through which we have come across some more information about her singing career.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
So there is one more film that makes its debut on the blog today. ‘Chale Hain Sasuraal’ is a film from 1966, produced under the banner of Krishnadeep Productions, directed by Dharam Kumar. A typical grade B film with Helen and Chandrashekhar in lead roles. The rest of the star cast includes Bhagwaan, Meenakshi, Madhumati, Sherry, Sunder, Tuntun, Aruna Irani, Mirza Musahrraf, Sheikh, Polson, Indira Bansal, Dilip Dutt, Jerry, Jilaani, Thakur, Anwari, Raj Deewan, Maqbool, Bimla Kashmiri, RN Nambiar. The music for this film comes from the baton of C Arjun. And the lyrics are from the pen of Qamar Jalaalabaadi.
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“Air Mail” (1960) must be one of the most obscure Hindi movies of all time. This B grade movie was a People Pictures presentation. It was directed by B J Patel. The movie had Jyoti, Mirajkar, Ranjan, Malini, Rajen Kapoor etc in it.
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Naa naa naa re haath na lagaana
Posted on: November 21, 2012
“Tajmahal” (1963) was a Pushpa Pictures Production. It was directed by M Sadiq. The movie had Pradeep Kumar, Beena Rai, Rehman, Jeevan, Jabeen Jalil, Veena, Jeevan Kala, Helen, Madhumati, Murad etc in it.
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“Jai Ambe”(1957) was a Mahesh Chitra Production movie. It was directed by Shanti Kumar. The movie had Sulochana, Manhar Desai, Jeevan, Sapru, Niranjan Sharma etc in it.
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“Ghazal” (1964) was a Natraja production movie. It was directed by Madan -Ved, The movie had Sunil Dutt, Meena Kumari, Rahman, Prithviraj Kapoor, Mridula Rani, Rajendranath, Raj Mehra etc in it.
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Sun le Baapu ye paighaam
Posted on: October 2, 2012
Today (2 october) is Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday. Mahatma Gandhi (2 october 1869- 30 january 1948), who is regarded as the Father of the nation was arguably one of the the greatest and most influential human beings of the modern era of mankind. Two of the movements that he initiated had Global application. They are Anti colonialism and Anti apartheid. Another major movement that he championed was anti touchability against a uniquely Indian social practice. All these movemnents have today become full fledged movements with official approval.
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Today (7 september) is the death anniversary of Vasundhara Devi. She was a leading actress of Tamil movies in 1940s and 1950s. She also acted in one Hindi movie namely “Paighaam”(1959) where she played the role of Vyjyanti Mala.
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Though Hindi movies covers lots of ground as far as various human feelings are concerned, but there is no doubt in any one’s mind that the predominant feeling depicted in Hindi movies is love between the hero and the heroine.
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