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Suraiya’s Song List (1941 – 1950)
____________________ Song List 1941 – 1950 | 1951 – 1960 | 1961 – 1963 | Back to Legends Suraiya ____________________ Song Movie Year Singers Music Director aao aao hil mil kar khushiyan manayein Taj Mahal 1941 Suraiya Madhavlal Damodar rana ji ki jai jai se Taj Mahal 1941 Suraiya Madhavlal Damodar Boot karoun mein polish ...
Snehprabha Pradhan
Snehprabha Pradhan (actress, singer, screenplay writer, biographer) was very much part of the socialistic movie intelligentsia that roamed the planet in the ’30s and ’40s. Born around 1920s, she was the daughter Vitthalrao Pradhan and Tarabai. Like her contemporaries (Shanta Apte etc), Snehaprabha spent a culturally diverse childhood. The first 10 years of her life ...
Zeenat Begum
Zeenat Begum (not to be confused with actress Zeenat) was a kothewali (courtesan). Her first recorded songs mostly composed by Pandit Amarnath and mostly sung in Punjabi language for HMV and Jienophone appeared around 1937. Her first success as a playback singer came in 1942 when she sang for Pt. Govind Ram for Punjabi film ...
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 ...
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Bashir Ahmed:
When first I heard this most haunting number, Mera dil najaney kab se tera pyar dhoondta hai, fr...
Shailendra:
While the constant composition of songs based on the fragile conundrums of love reduced m...
Talat Mahmood's Song List (1956 - 1960): ____________________
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