Proaudience - I shall admire you, my audience!Manna Dey

Hindi Movie Songs About Life (Zindagi)

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:48:40 +0000

This is 4th of August, 2010 – Kishoreda’s 81st birth anniversary! Time to be reflective, joyous and sentimental! And since I’ve not been able to write and publish about other stalwarts from Hindi cinema music in the recent months, I shall dedicate this particular day to all past playback greats by compiling a list of Hindi movie songs about life (Zindagi). This shall be a work in progress and open to more additions later. So here we go again…Aaj kee shaam, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi tathaa sabhee anya diggajon ke naam!

Madan Mohan Songs By Others

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:46:47 +0000

And here is a list of Madan Mohan songs by several singers, including some duets by Lata Tai. Also, click here to go to the official Madan Mohan website to surf more about him.

Ab Agar Hum Se (Rafi-Lata)
Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan (Rafi)
Aye Dil Mujhe Bata De (Geeta Dutt)
Baad Muddat Ke Ye Ghadi (Rafi)
Barbad E Mohabbat (Rafi)
Bhor Aayi Gaya Andhera (Manna Dey and others)
Chirag Dil Ka Jalao (Rafi)
Dil Dhoodhta Hai (Bhupinder)
Ek Haseen Sham Ko (Rafi)
Han Yeh Mana Meri Jaan (Rafi-Balbir)
Har Koi Chahta Hai Ek Mutthi Aasman (Kishore)
Har Taraf Ab Yehi (Manna Dey)
Hindustan Ki Kasam (Rafi, Manna Dey & Chorus)
Hoke Majboor Mujhe (Bhupinder, Manna Dey, Mohd Rafi, Talat Mahmood)
Hoke Mayus Tere Dar Se (Ambar Kumar, Mohd Rafi, Shankar Shambhu)
Hum Chal Rahe The (Mukesh)
Hum Se Aaya Na Gaya (Talat)
Is Reshmi Paazeb (Lata-Rafi)
Kaun Aaya Mere Man Ke Dware (Manna Dey)
Likh Kar Tera (Lata-Rafi)
Mai Ri Main Kase Kahoon (Lata & ??)
Mera Naam Abdul Rehman (Kishore-Lata)
Mere Ishq Mein (Asha)
Phir Wohi Sham Wohi Gham (Talat)
Pyar Kabhi Kam (Kishore-Lata)
Saba Se Yeh Kah Do (Asha)
Seekhlo Seekhlo (Kishore-Asha-Usha Mangeshkar)
Shokh Nazar Ki Bijiliyan (Asha)
Tere Dar Pe Aaya Hoon (Rafi)
Tere Kooche Mein (Rafi)
Teri Aankh Ke Ansoon (Talat)
Teri Aankhon Ke Siva (Rafi)
Teri Nigahon Mein (Talat-Asha)
Tum Bin Jeevan (Manna Dey)
Tum Chal Rahe Ho Hum (Lata-Mukesh)
Tum Jo Mil Gaye Ho (Rafi)
Yeh Deewane Ki Zid Hai (Rafi)
Yeh Duniya Yeh Mehfil (Rafi)
Zameen Se Hamen Aasman Par (Rafi-Asha)
Zaroorat Hai Zaroorat Hai (Kishore)
Jhumka Gira Re (Asha)

More Lata Mangeshkar Duets

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:55:49 +0000

Continuing with Lata Mangeshkar songs, here is a list of more duets by her with singers other than Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi.

Kishore Rafi Male Duets

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:15:14 +0000

Some popular male duets and chorus songs sung by Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Mahendra Kapoor, RD Burman, Amit Kumar, Shailendra, Anwar, Nitin Mukesh and Kamlesh Avasthi.

Pankhioye Kal Shor Karyo (Manna Dey)

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:00:49 +0000

I have several more Gujarati Gazals and old movie songs by Rafi, Talat Mahmood, Hemant Kumar, Meena Kapoor and Manna Dey. But some of you might fall asleep, if I played all of them here. The only exception was this one by Manna Dey:

Pankhioye Kal Shor Karyo

Also check out the following by Rafi, and compare it with the tune of Pal Do Pal Ka Saath Hamara from The Burning Train (1980). Don’t they sound similar in Mukhada despite various other dissimilarities?

Kahun Chhun Jawani Ne Paachhi Vali Ja

Songs I hesitated to upload are listed below. Anybody interested and familiar with any of them should let me know about it.

Talat Mahmood

Chadhyan Anmol Kishti Par
Javab Dene Kyan Chhe Tun
Shane Guman Karto
Sukani Ja Tun

Manna Dey

Lagi Re Lagan Piya Tori
Raheshe Mane Aa Maari
Sapna Rupey Aap Na Aavo

Meena Kapoor

Mohammed Rafi

Divso Judaina Jaay Chhe

Hemant Kumar

Tamara Ahin Aaj Pagala Thavana

The Extempore Kishoreda

admin — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:01:14 +0000

Ek Chatur Naar (1968) posted by Dariusdagr8 on Youtube. Watch the undisputed gurus of music and comedy from the bygone era in this video.

My father once told me, “If you ever wrote kishoreda even a piece of appreciation in simple prose, there are chances he would go through rhyming it as if it was a song! Such was his sense of melody.” And most of Kishoreda’s fans would agree with my dad’s observation. He was so unorthodox as a singer and so virtuosic in terms of music that it would be hard for anybody to speak about him in mere words. One could only make mortal attempts to describe the immortal virtuosos that are born in the league of Kishoreda!

I’d quote Manne Dey’s following observations on Kishore Kumar in The Indian Express to carry across my point:

I’m a very big Kishore fan. Kishore was a natural singer. He never learnt music, but he had the natural talent and what a voice he had. I have always rated him as one of the great entertainers in the field of music. You know we started that song (Ek chatur naar karke shringaar/ Padosan) in the morning at 9 o’ clock and finished in the evening at 9 o’ clock. Twelve hours of recording.

With Kishore, many times we have sung together, in Sholay we sang Ye dosti, it was like a picnic. Pancham (R D Burman) was such a lively fellow. We three used to make a hell of a lot of noise on the sets. And in that kind of noise, good things used to be born, jaise ki ‘Ek chatur naar’ mein ‘Naach na jaane aangan tedha’. Udhar Kishore singing ‘Oh tedhe, oh tedhe’….It was all impromptu and it was not there in the beginning. His brain used to wander about all the time.

And then the song goes into Tu to hai Mathura ka peda. It was all made up?…..All of it was made up by him.

It was this sense of generating music out of zero which had made him “a must have” entity for all the music directors since the success of “Aradhna”. That is why one leading music director had stated after Kishoreda’s demise why they will have to work harder to compose music. “Earlier we used to only worry about the half of the whole compositions, the rest would be taken care of by Kishore Kumar during the course of recordings,” he had disclosed.

Similar views could be noticed in one of Bappi Lahiri’s recent interviews (link missing now). My compositions were only 60 percent, they turned 100 percent only after Kishore mama (uncle) lent his voice to them. Kishore Kumar will never be born again. He is immortal and an irreplaceable singer, claimed an emotional Bappi at Kishoreda’s 78th birth anniversary this year.