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Sinbad the Sailor (1952) – Ada sai Jhoomte
This beautiful song was composed by Chitragupta who was still a struggling music director at that time and this film – particularly this song helped him establish his place in the Hindi Film Industry. According to Shamshad Begum, many music directors used her as a stepping stone to reach either Asha Bhosle or Lata Mangeshkar ...
Dilip Kumar – Suraiya
Dilip Kumar and Suraiya’s fans must have thought at some point , why Dilip Kumar and Suraiya never worked together? Recently, a book by senior journalist Zakhmi Kanpuri has been published from Karachi. He tried to shed some light on this issue. I am posting the translation here “This incident dates back to the time ...
Suraiya and her infamous Granny
This rare family pic shows Suraiya’s infamous granny who played a major role in ending the love affair of Suraiya with Dev Anand. According to Dev Anand in his book Romancing with Life – an autobiography, he mentioned “Suraiya’s grandmother’s open resentment came to the fore one day, on the sets of Afsar. She started ...
First Female Music Composer of Bollywood
It is commonly believed that Nargis’s mother Jaddan Bai became the first female music composer of Bollywood when she composed for Talash-e-Haq in 1935. That is incorrect. Ishrat Sultana aka Bibbo, composed the music of Adl-e-Jahangir in 1934, which was released a year earlier than Talash-e-Haq. Thus, making Bibbo the first female music composer of ...
Hemant Kumar – Shamshad Begum
Hemant Kumar (the music director) and Shamshad Begum – Like other music directors from Bengal belt i.e. Anil Biswas and Salil Chaudary, Hemant Kumar used Shamshad’s voice sparingly. As far as I know, the only song he composed for Shamshad, was a duet with Geeta Dutt from Yahudi ki Ladki (1957) – Hum Kisi Se ...
Mukesh – Shamshad Begum
Mukesh and Shamshad Begum approximately sang 26 duets together. Details are provided below :- Song Film Music Director Year KYA JADU HAI TERE PASS PIYA CHEHRA M. A. Mukhtar 1946 MOTI CHUGNE GAYI RE HANSI CHHEEN LE AAZADI Hansraj Behl 1947 LUT GAYI HO,LUT GAYI LAJO CHHEEN LE AAZADI Hansraj Behl 1947 AGARE SE ODANI ...
Shamshad Begum – Talat Mahmood
Talat Mahmood and Shamshad approximately sang 10 duets together. Details are provided below :- Song Co- Singer Film Music Director Year Dekho baras rahi barsaat Titli Vinod ? Nadiya mein uth raha hai Rafi Babul Naushad 1950 Milte hi ankhen Babul Naushad 1950 Duniya badal gaee Babul Naushad 1950 Jawani ke zamaane mein Madhubala Lachiram 1950 ...
Mohd Rafi – Shamshad Begum
Mohammed Rafi and Shamshad Begum sang almost 160 duets together in hindi films. Their first duet together was with Zohra Bai Ambala Wali Chotisee ek banayenge naiyya from Hamara Sansar (1945) with music scored by Pandit Govindram. Some of their best known duets were composed by Naushad and O.P Nayyar. While Naushad gave them the ...
Dilip Kumar – Interview
Dilip Kumar has always been a dedicated, thinking actor – more dedicated to and more cerebrally involved in his profession than perhaps any other Indian film actor with a comparable career span. Talking to Bikram Singh and M.Shamim sometime ago, Dilip Kumar had many things to say about the reward, joys and pains of being ...
Dilip Kumar – as Comedy hero
Kohinoor (1960), Leader (1964), Gopi (1970) Comedy and action were, in fact, an escape route for Dilip Kumar. He was in a dilemma after fielding grim drama. His mind and nerves were under constant stress. He craved relief from cerebral exertions. In his bid to get away from his mental skirmishes, he provided audiences with ...
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Eleven characters. A volley of bullets whizz by. Corpses pile up. A dead body disappears. A drug...
Satya (1998):
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Mute Love - Meena Kumari's Poem:
Flame
Clothed in ashes,
Corpse of ice
In a coffin of lava,
Mute love
Wrapped in notoriety....
Raagni:
Raagni, one of the most charming film actresses of the 1940s who silently passed away on Februar...
Meena Kumari & Kamal Amrohi:
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