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Hemant Kumar – Part 2
“Which rival musician would provide that kind of encouragement to a then unknown musician like me?” Bhupen Hazarika shakes his head in wonderment. Hailing a taxi Hemantda took the stupefied young Bhupen Hazarika to the HMV office in Calcutta and a deal was finalized on the spot. Later in Mumbai Hemant Kumar, already a reputed ...
Hemant Kumar – Part 1
“Listening to Hemantda I feel as though a sadhu sitting in a temple is singing a Bhajan,” comments the nightingale Lata Mangeshkar about the unique unvanquished Hemant Kumar” who was not only a fabulous singer but also an equally indomitable composer. As Lataji astutely tells us, in Hemant Kumar’s voice one could experience an amalgamation ...
Rajkumari – Profile
____________________ Profile – Interview Solo Song List | 1931 – 1940 | 1941 – 1950 | 1951 – Onwards | ____________________ Rajkumari began her career as a singer on All India Radio, way back in 1934. HMV contacted her for an album in Gujarati. Initially she started working as an actress in Hindi films. Her ...
C.H. Atma Song List
____________________ Profile | Song List ____________________ Song Year Film Co-Singer Music Director Lyricist Dil beqaraar hai 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Hasrat Jaipuri Roun mai sagar kai kinare 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Shailendra Ek sitara hai aakash mein 1951 Nagina Shanker Jaikishan Shailendra Is bewafa jahan mein 1952 Aasmaan O.P. Nayyar Prem Dhawan Raat suhani hanste ...
Naseem Akhtar
Naseem Akhtar was younger sister of Sardar Akhtar (wife of famous Indian director Mehboob Khan) and Bahar Akhtar (wife of A.R. Kardar – another famous Indian director credited for establishing the film industry of Lahore). Details are sketchy about Naseem Akhtar. She was an established playback singer before partition and sang for major music directors ...
Munawwar Sultana
Munawwar Sultana started her career as radio and playback singer probably around mid 40s. She used to take musical lessons from Master Ghulam Haider. She, along with the music composer G.A. Chisthi, is mostly credited for bringing the dead film industry of Lahore-Pakistan back to life. Munawwar Sultana sang the earliest hits in Pakistani films ...
Mujeeb Alam
I could not forget that brilliant rendering of Faiz’s Iss dhoop kinarey sham dhaley! Mujeeb Alam sang it for A.J. Kardar’s Qasam Uss Waqt kee, released in 1969, with his warmly vibrant voice that spoke volumes about the mix of dear wishes and secret sorrows that burgeoned in the bosom of all the truly patriotic ...
Firdousi Begum
The fascinating voice of Firdousi Begum reverberated in the horizons of the film world at the very outset of the 60′s. She made her debut with song Ankhain Tori Rah Takain in Urdu film Chanda which was released in 1962. The songs were so sweet that the cine lovers echoed them not only in the ...
Bashir Ahmed
When first I heard this most haunting number, Mera dil najaney kab se tera pyar dhoondta hai, from Iqbal Yusuf’s cloak-&-dagger movie, Hill Station, released in 1972, I was transported back to the days when I had visited East Pakistan at a very young age. The song seem to nostalgically harken back to the days ...
Noor Jehan
____________________ Back to Legends – Noor Jehan ____________________ Noor Jehan the Melody Queen reigned supreme over the South Asian music scene for more than six decades. She rose from near oblivion of the backwaters of Kasur, then hardly more than middle-sized Punjab town, to the dizzy heights of stardom as far back as the 40s, ...
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Shamshad Begum's Song List (1971 - 1981): ____________________
Her Hindi/Urdu Film Song List
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Talat Mahmood - Naushad Collaboration: ____________________
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Babul was the o...
Rabab (Rebab):
This is a music instrument of Persian or Afghan origin of the same name but adopted during Mugha...
Suraiya Multanikar:
Besides being a classical vocalist of repute, Suraiya Multanikar has also won wide admiration fo...
Mubarak Begum – Interview:
She has worked with most composers of her time, yet never had the chance to make it to her zenit...