Posts Tagged ‘Suman Kalyanpur’
In Bollywood movie songs, it the the boy who wooes the girl and the girl takes exception. But what happens when it is the other way round ? When the girl starts wooing the boy, then the latter is very uncomfortable. And that was much more so half a century ago.
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Bollywood romantic songs are reputed to be sung while running around trees. But how do the hero and heroine reach there in the first place ? In case they are rich, they have a car to reach there, but there is nothing romantic in that. It is far more romantic when the hero is driving a motor bike and the lady seated behind is clinging on to him with her arms strategically placed on hero’s body.
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Last year, when it was the day of Rakshabandhan (Rakhi), I had posted “bhaiyya mere raakhi ke bandhan ko nibhaana”. One year has passed since, and today is Rakshabandhan again. Here is another immortal rakshabandhan song on this occasion.
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I have mentioned in the past that Ganesh was an outstanding music director who unfortunately did not get his due from the Bollywood industry that he so richly deserved.
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Haal e dil unko sunaanaa thaa
Posted on: June 26, 2009
As obscure movies go, this has to be among the more obscure ones. The movie is called “Fariyaad”(1964) and it had unknown names like Ashok, Zeb Rahman, Shabaani, Gyaani etc. I do not think too many people would have watched this movie or would even be aware of this movie even when it was released.
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When I first heard this song, this song reminded me of the song “lag jaa gale ke phir ye haseen raat ho na ho” from “woh kaun thi”.
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Jo hampe guzarti hai
Posted on: June 14, 2009
Suman Kalyanpur had a voice that sounded very similar to Lata, and that hurt her career. But having listened to lots of songs sung by Suman Kalyanpur, now I feel that I have become somewhat able to distinguish her voice from Lata’s voice.
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“Paaras” (1971) was a movie starring Sanjeev Kumar and Rakhi. This movie may have been forgotten, along with its songs. But one just needs to listen to the songs of this movie to realise what fine songs this movie had.
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One two three four
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Though most Bollywood songs in 1950s were based on desi music ( classical and folk music), western music were also being introduced those days. C Ramchandra was one of the main pioneers who introduced western music in Bollywood. Another such pioneer was N Dutta.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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