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Pankaj Mullick (1905 – 1978)
A venerated composer, singer, and actor, Pankaj Mullick was one of the leading music directors of the early days of the sound era. Born in Calcutta, Mullick had an early interest in music. He gave up college to concentrate solely on music, and went on to be trained under Durgadas Bannerjee and Dinendranath Tagore. After ...
Meena Kapoor
Meena Kapoor was a notable playback singer in Hindi Films and sang mainly during the 1940s and 1950s. Born to actor Bikram Kapoor, a known name of the 30’s, and related to P. C. Barua (director of K. L. Saigal’s Devdas) , Meena was no stranger to films. Meena Kapoor was discovered by composer Ninu ...
Khursheed Begum
Khursheed Begum a.k.a. Irshad Begum was a notable singer-actress of the `40s, whose songs from Bhakta Surdas (1942) and Tansen (1943) still linger in the memory of film music buffs. She started her film career way back in the thirties. Between 1940 to 1947, Khursheed was one of the leading female singing stars in undivided ...
Shanta Apte
Born in Dudhni, Maharashtra. Actress-singer trained at the Maharashtra Sangeet Vidyalaya music school in Pandharpur. One of the great singing stars in the pre-playback era (with Kanan Devi). Best known work at Prabhat Studio. In Amritmanthan, as the hero’s sister Sumitra, caused a box-office sensation with her songs, which became popular in the North (Amritsar ...
Kanan Devi
Actress and singer; started with the name Kananbala. Debut as child actress in Joydev (1926). Later contracted to Radha Films where she acted in Jyotish Bannerjee films (e.g. Manmoyee Girls’ School). P.C. Barua was unable to obtain her for the role of Paro in Devdas (1935) but she played the lead in his next film, ...
Lata Mangeshkar – Part 4
____________________ Lata Mangeshkar’s detailed profile – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ As Lataji’s voice has matured and mellowed, her style has remained distinct. Lata clones proliferate but when the original grows richer and sweeter with age who wants imitations?. For somebody who ...
Lata Mangeshkar – Part 3
____________________ Lata Mangeshkar’s detailed profile – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Co-artistes have been kept on their feet by the small wonder. Duets with Lata were always a healthy competition between colleagues. Rafi, Mukesh, Kishore, Manna da would be amazed by the ...
Lata Mangeshkar – Part 2
____________________ Lata Mangeshkar’s detailed profile – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ And perhaps it is this ‘pride’ that prompted Majrooh Saab to say “It isn’t as though she always got great lines to sing. She was given the same standard of lyrics ...
Lata Mangeshkar – Part 1
____________________ Lata Mangeshkar’s detailed profile – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ Little Lata, came home after watching K.L. Saigal’s ‘Chandidas’ directed by Nitin Bose and declared that she would marry Saigal Saab when she grew up. Here begins, Hindi filmdom’s most enduring ...
C.H. Atma
____________________ Profile | Song List ____________________ “Dukhiya jiya bulaye, preetam aan milo…” The call of the wounded heart became the anthem of young lovers of the ‘50s who dared to fall in love and suffer the consequences. Such an aura of daring always surrounded the late C.H. Atma’s selective but luminous contribution to popular music. ...
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Tina Sani - Interview:
Talking into Tina Sani’s beautifully decorated residence, her musical instruments which are prop...
Talat Mahmood's Filmography: ____________________
Profile - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
Fact File - Filmography - Intervi...
Kishore Kumar's Song List (1946 - 1950):
Song
Film
Year
Co-Singers
Music Director
Banka sipahi ghar
Eight days
1946
S...
C.H. Atma: ____________________
Profile | Song List
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“Dukhiya jiya bulaye, preetam a...
Ijaz Hussain Hazarvi:
A contemporary of Ustad Barkat Ali Khan, he began to sing for Radio Pakistan in Lahore, having r...