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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Kishore Kumar

A multi-faceted genius, Kishore Kumar was a producer, director, lyricist, singer, music director, and actor. However, it is as a playback singer that he is best remembered. Kishore Kumar’s untrained yet deep and melodious voice lent itself to songs of varied genres — from the Aromantic Mere dil mein aaj kya hai (Daag) to the ...

. Actors & Actresses . Playback Singers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Hemant Kumar

The renowned Bengali-Hindi film composer and singer Hemant Kumar Mukherjee is remembered to this day for some of the most melodious songs in the cinema of both languages. Born in Banaras, Hemant Kumar left school to become a professional singer. He learnt music under the guidance of Phani Bannerjee and Shailendraprasad Gupta, and started off ...

. Music Directors . Playback Singers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Ghulam Haider

Music composer born in Hyderabad (Sind, Pakistan). Studied dentistry. Leading composer from the Lahore group e.g. Shyam Sunder, Khurshid Anwar and S.D. Batish. With Naushad initiated a musical revolution helping to institutionalize an All-India Film aesthetic in the 40s. Learnt music from Babu Ganeshlal, with whom he worked in theatre playing harmonium in Calcutta. Briefly ...

. . Music Directors . Music Directors

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Geeta Dutt

A versatile playback singer who could breathe life into her songs, Geeta Dutt was known for the freshness and charm of her voice. Born Geeta Roy, she moved to Bombay with her parents at the age of 12. Even though she lacked formal training in classical music, she impressed music director Hanuman Prasad enough to ...

. Playback Singers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Asha Bhosle

Gifted with a voice that possesses extraordinary range and versatility, Asha Bhosle has to her credit over 10,000 songs in 14 languages. Together with her legendary sister Lata Mangeshkar, Bhosle has dominated the Indian film singing for more than five decades. Born in Satara, Maharashtra, she received musical training from her father, Dinanath Mangeshkar. She ...

. Playback Singers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Amirbai Karnataki (1906-1965)

Amirbai Karnataki (born around 1906, died March 3, 1965) was a famous actress/singer and playback singer of the yesteryears and was famous as Kannada Kokila. Mahatma Gandhi was an ardent fan of her song Vaishnav Jaan. Amirbai Karnataki was born in Bilgi village, District of Bijapur in Karnataka into a lower middle class family. Of ...

. Playback Singers

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Charlie

‘Palat Tera dhyan kidhar hai” – it was a typical honk of the champion comic of the pre-Partition Indian cinema. Noor Mohammad Charlie made a great splash in the sea of the Indian cine kingdom, when he entered the foray with his own zany jokes and word variations, apart from his pet phrases and lingual ...

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Mother India (1957)

Mother India (1957), the Indian Gone with the Wind, is Mehboob’s most famous film and has achieved the status of an Indian cinematic epic. Mother India took three years to make, and is actually a remake of one of Mehboob’s first films, Aurat (Woman, 1940), starring the wonderful actress Sardar Akhtar (who had already worked ...

. Drama

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Purana Mandir (1984)

In 1984, the Ramsays brothers (generally credited with introducing the horror movie to India) began work on Purana Mandir (The Old Temple), which proved a watershed in the short history of Hindi horror. Its main setting, an ancient palace at Jehangir, about live hours drive from Bombay, was perfect for the story. “Even you shot ...

. Horror

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Khazanchi (1941)

This is an example of the work of the studio in Lahore that was a centre of the Indian film industry before partition and is now the home of ‘Lollywood’ or the Pakistani film industry. A huge hit, it is one of the films that helped to establish the musical style of the Hindi film ...

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