2013

Romancing the dunce or ‘Mahamoorkhon Ke Gaane’

Songs on dunces March 27, 2013

In an interesting Holi tradition in many parts of North India, important personalities of the town get together to play the fool, and vie with each other to get the coveted best fool awards. The next day’s papers carry colourful reports of these proceedings with profile of the winners of Mahamoorkh or Moorkhshiromani awards.

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Film Songs Based on Classical Ragas (7) – Desh and Tilak Kamod

Raga Desh March 16, 2013

Guest article by Subodh Agrawal (Subodh returns, after some gap, with an outstanding article on Desh and its close variant, Tilak Kamod.  Some of the most iconic songs, such as ‘Dukh ke ab din beetat nahi’, ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Baje sargam har taraf se goonj bankar Desh Raga’ are in Desh. He also includes the […]

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Multiple Versions Songs (6) – Both versions by female playback singer(s) (1) – Abhi To Main Jawan Hun

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Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (The series on multiple version songs, started by Mr Ashok Vaishnav, is now getting multidimensional.  Besides three parts by Ashokji, we also had Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh writing on Hindi-Marathi, and Mr N Venkataraman on Hindi-Tamil version songs.  Ashokji resumes where he left off – now with all-female versions.  This […]

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Best duets of Talat Mahmood and Asha Bhosle

Talat Mahmood and Asha Bhosle February 24, 2013

A tribute on Talat Mahmood’s Birth Anniversary, February 24 When I wrote on Talat Mahmood’s peppy duets last year, it left many readers naturally unsatiated. He, of the velvety voice, is known more for his heart-touching, soft and romantic duets. The readers very generously gave a big list of his duets with various female singers, […]

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Multiple Version Songs (5): Hindi and Tamil film songs (1) – ‘Inspired and adopted’ songs

Naushad and MS Vishwanatahan February 15, 2013

Guest article by N Venkataraman (Mr N Venkataraman had been benefitting the SoY readers with his erudite comments for quite some time. Therefore, when Mr Ashok Vaishnav’s mega series on Multiple Version Songs came along, my thoughts went to him for doing Hindi songs and their versions in South Indian languages. I am grateful that […]

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Multiple Version songs (4): Hindi and Marathi

Scene from Hindi-Marathi bilingual film 'Ayodhya Ka Raja' February 6, 2013

Guest article by Arunkumar Deshmukh (On the blogosphere dealing with old films and music, Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh is known as a  living encyclopaedia. SoY regulars are aware of the mega series on multiple version songs, started by another stalwart, Mr Ashok Vaishnav, spanning across singers, films, genres and languages, some parts of which may require […]

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Multiple Version Songs (3): Both versions by male playback singers – Different Moods

Same singer, several versions, different moods January 29, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (In his last post Mr Ashok Vaishnav covered a sub-category of multiple version songs in which the two versions are sung, generally, by the same male playback singer, one version being happy, and the other sad. At times, the two versions are not so clearly differentiated – the variation […]

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Multiple Version Songs (2): Both versions by male playback singers – Happy and A Sad Song

Same songs two versions, both male January 17, 2013

Guest article by Ashok M Vaishnav (In his first article in the mega series on Multiple Version Songs, Mr Vaishnav gave an overview of the subject, several types of multiple version songs, ranging from simple vanilla twin songs – male/female versions – to same singer different moods, different male or female singers, solo/duets, film/non-film songs, […]

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An evening with Mubarak Begum

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Kabhi tanhaiyon mein hamari yaad ayegi: Happy Birthday to you (January 5) From various accounts on the internet I had taken Mubarak Begum to be lost for the civilization. Supposedly she was living in anonymity, in penury in some Bombay chawl with her son, who was said to be an autorickshaw driver. Therefore, I was […]

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