The ‘Fusion Songs’

A few years back, when I had just begun blogging, I had posted a list of songs having 'Two Different Moods in a Single Song'. It was a list where a single song incorporated happy and sad moods in an alternating fashion. One character sings happily, while another character sings the same song in a …

दो सहेलियाँ

Last year I published a series of female duets picturised as dance numbers. The series had five parts covering the dance duets under various categories. While I was compiling the lists, I could identify a different subset of female duets that were picturised on two actresses but those were not dance numbers. And the duets …

(Part II) – Remembering Mubarak Begum

Welcome all the readers to the second and the final part of the series. I started the series on Mubarak Begum's 4th death anniversary, and the part focused on the solos. Today's part focuses on the duets or trios by Mubarak Begum. Her first duet was with Lata Mangeshkar for the film, Aaiye (1949). Lata …