Posts Tagged ‘Hemant Kumar’

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    The music of Kamal Dasgupta
    Kamal Dasgupta (1912-1974) In the Hindi film Jawab (1942), singer-actress Kanan Devi lulls a restless, and rather childlike, P. C. Barua into sweet sleep. The song is “Ay chand chup na jaana,” and it is great for frayed nerves. Given my own battles with sleep—the activity that consumes nearly a half of our lives—I feel compelled to attest to the wonder of this...
    by Nivedita Ramakrishnan at October 24th, 2009 at 05:10 pm
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    Hemant Kumar- A League of his Own
    Apart from books and movies, Music has been one of my other passions. And i just have a big time passion for old Hindi movie songs, especially the Golden era of 50’s and 60’s. Madan Mohan, S.D.Burman, Shankar Jaikishan, O.P.Nayyar each one of them distinct from each other, each having their own styles. I had already blogged about some of them at my site, and...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 13th, 2008 at 01:11 am
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    When outsiders were preferred over regular singers : a question to music lovers
    There have been many good female singers in the hindi cinema right from the days of Noorjahan and Suraiya. Geeta Dutt, Suman Kalyanpur and Sudha Malhotra all gave good and hit songs and their songs were able to compete with the songs of any good female singers active in those years. They all have many songs where question of comparison with other singers does not arise...
    by Rk at July 21st, 2008 at 04:07 am
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    Siddhartha(1972) :: Cinematic depiction of spiritual quest !
    Background : Conrad Rooks had got involved in drugs and had visited France to get rid of his drug addiction. There he got to read the book “Sidhaartha” (written by Nobel Laureate, German author Herman Hess). He was greatly impressed by the book and he developed a wish to make a film on the book. He got the rights of making a film on the book with the help of son...
    by Rk at May 29th, 2007 at 08:05 am
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