"mother India" (Hindi: भारत माता, Urdu: بھارت ماتا) is a 1...
"mother India" (Hindi: भारत माता, Urdu: بھارت ماتا) is a 1957 Bollywood film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raj Kumar. The film is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film Aurat (1940).
Music is by Naushad and lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni.
The film was fifth Indo-Russian co-production, and was preceded by Pardesi (1957), also starring Nargis Dutt. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. The film ranked #3 in the list of all-time box office hits.
The film was India's first submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1958, and was chosen as one of the five nominations for the category. The film came close to winning the award, but eventually lost to Frederico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria by a single vote.
The film grossed over Rs. 40 million. This record was beaten 3 years later by Mughal-E-Azam in 1960.
Awards and nominations; * Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Nomination * Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Best Actress: Nargis Dutt * Filmfare Best Movie Award * Filmfare Best Director Award: Mehboob Khan * Filmfare Best Actress Award: Nargis * Filmfare Best Cinematographer Award: Faredoon Irani * Filmfare Best Sound Award: R. Kaushik............
Lata Mangeshkar (Marathi: लता मंगेशकर; born September 28, 1929) is a singer from India. She is one of the best-known playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over six and a half decades. She sang in over a thousand Bollywood movies and has sung songs in over twenty regional Indian languages, but primarily in Hindi. She is the elder sister of the equally accomplished singer Asha Bhosle and lesser-known singers, brother Hridayanath Mangeshkar and sisters Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. Lata is the second vocalist ever to have received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Mangeshkar was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the most recordings in the world.
Lata Mangeshkar has won several awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan (1969), Padma Vibhushan (1999), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1989), NTR National Award (1999), Bharat Ratna (2001), three National Film Awards, and 12 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards. She has also won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards. In 1969, she made the unusual gesture of giving up the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award, in order to promote fresh talent. She was later awarded Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993.
Lata Mangeshkar monopolized the best female playback singer award from 1958 to 1966. In 1969, Lata made the unusual gesture of giving up Filmfare awards in order to promote fresh talent...........
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Born: Sunilal Popo Bahora November 4th, 1943 - May 2nd, 2000.
No one before him had dared to mix ...
Born: Sunilal Popo Bahora November 4th, 1943 - May 2nd, 2000.
No one before him had dared to mix the racy rhythms of Indian folk singing with the pulsating vibrations of soca, the beat of calypso and the strains of the dholak. Chutney pioneer, Sundar Popo, has successfully taken his music to the world proving that Indian music is not for Indian people alone.
This remarkable accomplishment is no accident. He comes from a rich musical background. As an unborn baby in his mother's womb he felt the powerful stirrings of the religious Hindu songs that she sang. His father, a tassa drummer, was also an accomplished musician.
Both mother and father took their act to the road performing in the quiet villages of Trinidad. They often supplied the only music at farewell nights, weddings and prayers. However, he did not begin singing with the band until he was 15 and did so for 35 cents and 50 cents per show.
He began his career as a singer with film songs and as a young man he made the long journey from his home in Monkey Town, Barrackpore to Chaguanas where like many his age he sat before the big screen at Jubilee Cinema and dreamed of being a star.
Today his music have made a tremendous impact on the international music scene.
He was a 27-year-old who simply loved to sing when he made his debut with Nanie and Nana in 1971.
Back then he had neither a record nor public recognition. Now with more than 50 records to his credit and many hits such as Oh My Lover, Don't Fall in Love and Scorpion Girl Sundar Popo was a household name.
No one before him had dared to mix rhythms of Indian folk with Soca. He was aided in his progress by Moean Mohammed, musicologist Harry Mahabir and Ed Watson. The result was a musical mixture that was so spicy and rich that it left all those who heard it spellbound. Is was quite fittingly dubbed Chutney. The crossover bet made him a star by the age of 30. Since then he has proven that Indian music can gain wide acceptance by the population regardless of race.
Even in the early days of his pioneering work he chose to sing his songs as a mixture of standard English and the local dialect so that they could be appreciated by all who heard them.
He won the Indian Cultural Pageant four times and this led organisers to create a special category for his original compositions.
He performed with international Indian stars Kanchan and Babla, Anup Jalotha, Amitab Bachan and Keshor Kumar and with popular local calypsonians such as Black Stalin whose Sundar Where the Song helped him cop the monarchy.
He was awarded a Sunshine Music Award in 1993 for the role he has played in the development of world music and received a Caribbean Music Award the following year.
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