Archive for Playback Singers
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Parul Ghosh – Profile
____________________ Parul Ghosh’s Profile | Parul Ghosh’s Song List ____________________ Sister of famous music director Anil Biswas and wife of well-known flutist Pannalal Ghosh, Parul Ghosh belonged to well known family of musicians. She is often credited as the first playback singer of Hindi films singing for Dhoop Chaon as …
Sitara of Kanpur
Sitara of Kanpur (aka Sitara Bai Kanpurvaali or Sitara Kanpuri) was born around 1920s. Sitara was introduced as playback singer by director W.Z. Ahmed in his film Man Ki Jeet (1944), who heard her singing on radio and noticed her attractive voice. According to W.Z. Ahmed “She was called to …
G.M. Durrani – Interview
I think it was sometimes during 1935/36 that Sohrab Modi spotted me as a singer. I was then giving performances over the radio. Singing before a mike came quite naturally to me. But when Sohrab Modi told me that I would have to face the camera and enact the role …
Trilok Kapoor
Trilok Kapoor – a forgotten singer who was mostly active during the 1950s. He is mostly confused with the actor of the same name who acted opposite Noor Jehan in Mirza Sahiban (`947) and Nargis in Pyar Ki Baatien (1951). One of the famous songs of Trilok Kapoor was a …
Hamida Bano
Hamid Bano was moderately successful singer of the pre-partition era. Before migrating to Pakistan, her repertoire included memorable songs like Teri zaat pak hai ai Khuda (Neik Perveen,1946) and Champa kali hai udaas (Cheen le Azaadi, 1947). Her duets with Mukesh – Ja parwane ja kahin shama jal rahie hai …
Mohammad Rafi - Part 3
Trilok Kapoor
Album Review - Shiraz Uppal's Ankahi
Suraiya's Interview
Tu Jaane Na - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)