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Published: 13 September 2017

Last Updated: 27 April 2026

Some people like Hindi films, others love them, but a few blessed ones like Har Mandir and his successors are crazy about films and their songs. One such person is Dinesh Sharma of  Dhulia, Maharashtra. He started noting down the picturizations of films in notebooks, loose sheets of paper and scraps of paper. He has been mostly responsible in all the picturization info you see in the various singers' Geet Koshes. Here is what the compilers of the Rafi Geet Kosh, 'Mere Geet Tumhare' had to say about him.

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Listen to Phool Bane Angare (1963) 

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Published: 12 September 2017

Last Updated: 12 September 2017

Listen to this Parul Ghosh song (Number 09) 'ummeed unase kyaa thee' from

Basant (1942)

One can clearly hear her taking a breath in between singing. Same phenomenon can be heard in the early songs of Lata, Noor Jehan and Suraiya, for example. No breathing can be heard in the early 30s songs, try plenty of them on the website. Of course, it disappeared again starting with early fifties. It;s a puzzle!

The answer is that in the very early days, the songs were recorded at the same time as video and the mike was out of the frame, far away, so and breathing was faint like a whisper. When audio and video got separated, the singer could put his/her mouth very near the mike, so breathing is heard. I like the songs with breathing because it makes me feel that the singer is sitting very near me and singing only for me.

So, what happened? Somebody thought that the breathing was a bad thing and taught the singers to move their mouth away from the mike to breath in. I am not sure but usually Anil Biswas is credited/blamed for teaching Lata how to breath like this and everybody followed her.

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 Listen to Pyar Ka Bandhan (1963)

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Published: 11 September 2017

Last Updated: 11 September 2017

Listen to the song 2 from Lal Chitthi from Girdharilal Vishwakrama collection

http://hindi-films-songs.com/main/glv-159.html

Soon after she sings kookatee hai Daalee Dalee, I hear a bird-like sound. She continues koyaliyaa kaalee. I believe it is just somebody whistling. In any case, this is the earliest song to have a bird sound.

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 Listen to Nag Mohini (1963)