Posts Tagged ‘Talat Mehmood’
Aa teri tasweer banaa loon
Posted on: February 10, 2011
“Naadaan” (1951) is a movie starring Dev Anand and Madhubala.
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Ye mere andhere ujaale na hote
Posted on: February 6, 2011
With Hindi movie songs of the golden era, finding unknown gems in easy. Just look at the songs of any forgotten movie or look for less popular songs from better known movies. And more often than not, one will come up with a good collection of great unknown songs on a regular basis.
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Doob gaye aakaash ke taare
Posted on: January 4, 2011
I had never heard of this movie called “Angaarey” (1954) not had I heard any songs from this movie. This movie had Nasir Khan and Nargis in it alongwith Pran and others.
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When I began this blog, I discussed songs at the rate of one song per day. Soon I began to discuss more songs every day. With time, I created pages to keep the list of songs in some order. Now there are pages that list songs by movie, by music director as well as by year.
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When Dilip Kumar began his career as a lead actor in Hindi movies, Talat Mehmood gave playback for him. It was from mid 1950s onwards that Rafi became his (and for that matter every one’s) voice.
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Husn waalon ko naa dil do
Posted on: December 6, 2010
I am aware of several well known songs of “Baabul” (1950) that I have already discussed. I have now stumbled against a song that was unknown to me.
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Kisi se pyaar hai hamko
Posted on: December 5, 2010
“Devtaa” (1956) was a Hindi movie produced by a South Indian production house and this movie had South Indian actors in lead roles. Gemini Ganeshan, Anjalai Devi, Vyjyanti Mala were the lead actors of this movie.
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In 1950s, Talat Mehmood, then a leading playback singer, also tried his hands in acting. He started played leading roles in several movies.
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Hindi movies called “Dost” seem to get released every decade. The first such movie was “Dost” (1944) and it had memorable music by Sajjad Hussain. In my days, another movie by this name, viz “Dost” (1974) was released which had memorable music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. There was no movie by this name in 1964, though there was a movie called “Dosti” (1964), which again had memorable songs composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal.
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Tumse hai pyaar mujhe
Posted on: December 4, 2010
In Hindi movies, lyrics tended to be laden with Urdu words mainly because the major lyricists of that time were more comfortable with Urdu words than Sanskrit origin Hindi words. The plea was that simple words were needed for the movies. Ironically, the words used in Hindi movie songs were not really common man’s words for those whose mother tongue was Hindi. So Hindi speakers had difficulty understanding many words in Hindi movies.
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