Noorjehan "Badi mushkil se" _ Lakhon me ek

A Pakistani song for a change. Noorjehan of course is the singer. I have heard and much enjoyed the song earlier. Nice to see it here..

Sapno ki suhani duniya ko - Shikast

One of Talat's most beautiful melodies in a film that is sadly forgotten today. I thought it was one of the best Dilip Kumar films of the time. Nalini Jaywant looks lovely as ever. Talat sounds his best and goes perfectly on Dilip. A melody forever

Reducing the size of a movie file for Youtube

I am rather new to uploading files on Youtube. I love the site and hence was surprised at how long it took to upload a song I had extracted from the "Garam coat" VCD movie. Took forever. On investigating, I found that the size of the song file was over 30MB !! No wonder it took so long. Then started my hunt to find tools that compressed a movie file on Windoze. I know a few apps on the Mac which could do this but not on Windoze. I downloaded plenty of apps which promised to do this but either they were too unfriendly or just didnt work. Finally, I was referred to this great tutorial where the author demonstrates how you could use the inbuilt Windows Movie Maker for this. I then experimented by reducing the size of this song to just 3MB and it worked just great. So a big thanks to the author of the tutorial..

Man mein kisi ki - Aaraam

My all-time favorite song can now be viewed on Youtube. Lata is sweet as honey, piano just out of this world, Madhubala so fresh and lovely though she falls short on acting the song on screen. Enjoy this song..

Anilda - thou art my God !

Yeh kis manzil pe le aayee - Main Suhagan Hoon

A wealth of videos of rare, old songs is available on Youtube. I will link to some of the ones I found and much enjoyed. Hope you like em as well. Thanks go to the kind souls who shared these videos with the rest of the world.

A delicious Talat gem. This is from a 1966 film and Talat's voice was still good enough to lend the perfect ambience to rhis melody. This shows that had the music of the times been along the lines of the 50s when Talat dominated, we could well have seen Talat's career continue with success till the late 1960s.

"Milan"- a classic soundtrack

Watched the 1946 Dilip Kumar starrer “Milan” again yesterday and lived through the gorgeous Anil Biswas melodies all over again. There is no question that this is amongst the greatest of all Anilda sioundtracks and belongs to the top league of soundtracks like “Taraanaa”, “Aaraam” and “Kismat” by the same man. Parul Ghosh rules the track with four stunners and Shankardas Gupta, if I remember right, makes his first appearence in Anilda's music.

The film starts with a very young Dilip Kumar walking down the street and hearing "gun gun gun gun bole bha.Nvaravaa" being sung by his lady love - rendered so beautifully by Parul. You can almost feel a gentle breeze wafting across you when you hear Parul singing this song, so effortless and simple is her style. Then that masterpiece of a melody "suhaanii beriyaa biitii jaaye".. what a song that is !! Parul breezes through the melody.. at her best. The two other Parul songs are heavier, more melancholic but no less beautiful. "mai.n kisakii laaj nibhaauu.N" captures the dilemma of the heroine to a nicety while "jisane banaadii baa.Nsurii giit usii ke gaaye jaa" is one of my personal favorites. All in all, a veritable Parul Ghosh treasure here. Amidst all these treasures, it may be a trifle difficult to remember the two male-voiced songs in the film "vo kahe.n aap se" and "uupar hai baadriyaa kaarii". The latter is a masterpiece which captures the boatman's philosophy and the composition conveys the dark looming clouds and impending tragedies without going overboard. This is Anilda's genius - he captures the mood of the sequence without resorting to melodrama.


All in all. "Milan" is one of the treasure tracks of Hindi cinema and worth a million hears !