Posts Tagged ‘Suraiyya’
I have discussed as many as six songs of “Shama Parwaana” (1954) in these pages. But there are still more songs from this movie that are yet to be covered.
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Most “deepawali” festival songs are sad/ cynical songs, but there are happy “deepawali” songs as well. Here is one such song.
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Teri nazar mein main rahoon
Posted on: October 29, 2010
A few days ago, I had discussed about my resolution to post all the available Sajjad Hussain compositions in this blog. So far I have discussed 33 such songs which amount to about one third of all the Sajjad Hussain compositions in Hindi movies. After that, I have hit a wall and I was unable to find more songs to discuss.
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Main keh doon tum ko chor
Posted on: October 18, 2010
Playful romantic songs, especially those that are picturised on a pair of actors who were actually romantically involved always makes for good listen/watch. Dev Anand and Suraiyya were one of the first such on screen couple.
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Ummeedon kaa taaraa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
I have been posting the songs composed by Sajjad Hussain in this blog these days. One of the earlier movies where he composed music was in the movie called 1857.
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I have talked about my resolution to try and post all Sajjad Hussain songs that are available. I have come to realise by now that Sajjad Hussain composed songs in 17 movies (and not 14, as popularly believed).
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In Hindi movies, love songs are arguably the most frequent form of songs that one comes across.Even among love songs there are so many varieties. “Missing the beloved” is one of these varieties. This opens up the opportunity for creating a song sung by the person missing the beloved. Job of the lyricists to come up with lyrics for such situations must be quite a challenge, seeing that such situations arise in every movie. To the credit of the lyricists of those days, they invariably managed to come up with original songs/ concepts to describe the feelings of the actors.
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Yaad karoon tori batiyaan
Posted on: September 22, 2010
If one listens to female songs composed by O P Nayyar, they are mostly sung by Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhonsle, with some songs sung by Shamshad Begam too.
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I had never heard about this movie called “Shokhiyaan” (1951) and I was not aware of this song till recently.
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Mere mundere na bol jaa kaagaa
Posted on: September 21, 2010
“Parwaanaa” (1947) was a movie starring K L Saigal and Suraiyya. I have posted three songs from this movie in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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