Posts Tagged ‘Hemant Kumar’
Five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani Films
Here are my five favorite ghost songs from Indian/Pakistani films in no particular order. 1. Jhoom Jhoom dhalti raat (Lata Mangeshkar) Kohraa (1964) featured the ethereal Waheeda Rehman as the mysterious rake Biswajeet’s second wife who’s haunted by his dead wife. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), the chilling ambience of this film was sublimated ...
Hemant Kumar’s Song List (1961 – 1970)
Song Film Year Co-Singers Music Director Lyricist Kabuliwala aaya Kabuliwala 1961 Sabita Chowdhury, Usha Mangeshkar Salil Chowdhury Gulzar Ganga aaye kahaan se Kabuliwala 1961 Salil Chowdhury Gulzar Kabhi yahan chale Khiladi 1961 Sardul Kwatra Prem Dhawan Tumhi mere meet ho Pyase Panchhi 1961 Suman Kulyanpur Kalyanji Anandji Qamar Jalalbadi Na tum hamen jaano Baat Ek ...
Hemant Kumar’s Song List (1951 – 1960)
Song Film Year Co-Singers Music Director Lyricist Kaun musafir leke aaya Mala 1951 Utpala Sen Gour Goswami/Souren Pal ? Aa gupchup gupchup pyaar karen Sazaa 1951 Sandhya Mukherjee S.D. Burman Sahir Takdaa gaya tum se dil hi to ha (version record) Aan 1952 Naushad Shakeel Muhabbat chume jin ke haath (version record) Aan 1952 Naushad ...
Hemant Kumar’s Song List (1940 – 1950)
Song Film Year Co-Singers Music Director Lyricist Nit nit ke ruuThanewaala saajan Iraada 1944 Radharani Amarnath Aziz Kashmiri Phir muhabbat ka payaam aane la Iraada 1944 Amarnath Aziz Kashmiri Aaraam se jo raate.n kaaTe Iraada 1944 Amarnath Aziz Kashmiri Lagaa us se lou Banphool 1945 Dhiren Mitra Narendra Nath Tuli Madhu gandhe bharaa Humraahi 1945 ...
Hemant Kumar – Part 4
There’s a strange contradiction discernible in Hemantda’s best selections. In tracks like Aye dil ab kahin haja (picturized on of all people – Shammi Kapoor in Bluff Master) and Jab jaag uthe armaan to kaise neend aaye Hemant Kumar is at once the poet peering into life’s abyss and the macho romantic riding over the ...
Hemant Kumar – Part 3
But it was as a singer that Hemant Kumar obtained an unique berth in the hall of fame. Like Anup Jaiota says, Hemantda’s voice conveyed both the depth of the ocean and the heights of the skies. It is a voice that communicates a profound romance. It is the voice of experienced articulation rather than ...
Hemant Kumar – Part 2
“Which rival musician would provide that kind of encouragement to a then unknown musician like me?” Bhupen Hazarika shakes his head in wonderment. Hailing a taxi Hemantda took the stupefied young Bhupen Hazarika to the HMV office in Calcutta and a deal was finalized on the spot. Later in Mumbai Hemant Kumar, already a reputed ...
Hemant Kumar – Part 1
“Listening to Hemantda I feel as though a sadhu sitting in a temple is singing a Bhajan,” comments the nightingale Lata Mangeshkar about the unique unvanquished Hemant Kumar” who was not only a fabulous singer but also an equally indomitable composer. As Lataji astutely tells us, in Hemant Kumar’s voice one could experience an amalgamation ...
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