Continuing the yearly review of Lata Mangeshkar's songs, let's celebrate today Lata Mangeshkar's 92nd birthday by revisiting a few of my favorite songs sung by her in the year 1953. She sang about 190+ songs in total from 45 films, with around 150 solos and around 40+ other songs including duets (34 with male singers …
My favourite ‘Lata – Hemant Kumar Duets’
Last year on Lata Mangeshkar's 90th birthday I started a series based on Lata's association with forgotten and lesser known composers. It continued for a few months, I covered around 100 composers in a series of eight posts. I tried to cover till the late 1980s. Though I could have continued it in the 1990s, …
C Ramchandra – The 50s (Part I)
Let's celebrate Chitalkar's 102nd birthday with his songs from the 1950s. He has a large chunk of films from the 1950s. For convenience, I have divided the decade in two parts. Today's part will cover 1951 to 1955, with around 30 films to consider. That means six films per year on average. This is really …
My Favourites by Shailendra
Shailendra (30 Aug 1923 - 14 Dec 1966) was one of the most brilliant, talented & versatile lyricist of the golden era of Hindi film music. He started working at railway workshop in Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1940s.He used to write poems and participate in poem symposia. Raj Kapoor was impressed by his poem 'Jalta …
Mehfil Mein Meri 