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Sunday, November 21st, 2010 by admin

Help Identify These Unknown Singers

HMV released four cassette set of Vintage Favourites From Films – The Earliest Hindi Film Hits from 1932 – 1942 long time ago. It was a good collection of rare and old Hindi film songs from 30s and early 40s. The covers of this 4 cassette set had pictures of 14 vintage singers from that ...

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Saturday, September 18th, 2010 by admin

Khursheed Begum – Her Last Interview

The year was 1992 the month was February; I entered a house in Karachi’s posh area. I was led inside by a servant who took me to the living room area of the neatly decorated compact house. A group of women sat in the room, all in their middle ages. They were startled to see ...

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Sunday, June 20th, 2010 by admin

Khursheed Begum

Khursheed Begum a.k.a. Irshad Begum was a notable singer-actress of the `40s, whose songs from Bhakta Surdas (1942) and Tansen (1943) still linger in the memory of film music buffs. She started her film career way back in the thirties. Between 1940 to 1947, Khursheed was one of the leading female singing stars in undivided ...

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