RMIM Archive Article "325".
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# Subject: Asha Bhosle and Male co-singers
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# Posted by: Surjit Singh
# Author: Surjit Singh dussh@ttacs.ttu.edu
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Asha and 195 male singers of Hindi movie songs
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Dear fellow music lovers:
Here is the info about the number of songs sung by Asha
with males. As before, this info comes mainly from the book
on Asha, called "svaraashaa" published by Vishwas Nerurkar
of Bombay, who published a similar book on Lata earlier.
From 1931 up to now, according to a rough count by me,
approximately 1290 (give or take 10) singers have sung for
Hindi movies. Of these about 540 have been female and about
750 male. It is remarkable that Asha has sung with so many
of them considering that she started singing 16 years after
the beginnning of talkies.
The following includes songs from Hindi-Urdu films only
and is up to 1994. The main part of the list is arranged as
follows: the name of the male singer, total number of songs
sung with Asha, total number of movies with Asha, duets in
which Asha, the named singer sang and possibly chorus sang,
others in which another singer/s male and/or female
participated. In my last post about Asha and female singers,
I said that the duets featured Asha and another female voice
only. In fact, Nerurkar counts as duets even those songs in
which the chorus participates with Asha and another singer.
So, this correction should be made in the previous post. As
usual, transliteration scheme of Chopde has been used.
As usual, the ultimate source of most of this info is
the 5-volume Hindi Film Giit Kosh by Har Mandir Singh
Hamaraaz and Bishwa Nath Chatterjee.
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name songs movies duets other
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rafii 880 514 781 99
kishor 656 451 589 67
mahendra kapuur 212 173 165 47
mannaa De 184 164 124 60
amit kumaar 114 86 93 21
suresh vaaDakar 91 76 70 21
muhammad azziiz 68 62 62 6
shabbiir kumaar 67 53 58 9
mukesh 58 53 50 8
talat 55 43 50 5
kumaar shaanuu 46 28 42 4
shailendr singh 44 41 25 19
s. p. baala-
subrmaNyam 33 22 30 3
bhappii laahi.Dii 31 30 28 3
raahul barman 27 26 21 6
hemant 26 19 23 3
balabiir 22 20 8 14
anvar 22 18 19 3
chitalakar 22 14 20 2
udit naaraayaN 15 15 9 6
manahar udhaas 15 14 11 4
omii 15 13 11 4
bhuupendra 14 17 0 14
g. m. durraanii 13 11 12 1
s. d. baatish 13 10 7 6
nitin mukesh 12 10 12 0
yesudaas 9 8 8 1
anuup jaloTaa 8 3 8 0
kumaar sonik 7 6 0 7
aziiz naazaa.N 6 6 5 1
jasapaal singh 6 5 2 4
vinod raaTho.D 6 4 6 0
vinod sahagal 6 4 5 1
mahamuud 6 4 1 5
annuu malik 5 5 3 2
shankaradaas guptaa 5 5 2 3
abhijiit 5 4 3 2
pradiip 4 4 3 1
ravi 4 4 3 1
vijay benedict 4 4 3 1
bande hasan 4 4 2 2
Kaan mastaanaa 4 3 4 0
rishii kapuur 4 3 1 3
a. hariharan 3 3 3 0
nasiiruddiin shaah 3 3 3 0
unidentified male 3 3 3 0
jagamohan baKshii 3 3 2 1
shamindar paal 3 3 2 1
sudesh bhosale 3 3 2 1
aanand kumaar c. 3 3 1 2
lakshmiikaant 3 3 1 2
bhuushaN mehataa 3 3 0 3
Gulaam muhammad 3 3 0 3
master gopaal 3 2 3 0
sapan chakravartii 3 2 0 3
a. r. ojhaa 2 2 2 0
aaGaa saravar 2 2 2 0
bulo c. raanii 2 2 2 0
dev aanand 2 2 2 0
hridyanaath
mangeshkar 2 2 2 0
mangal singh 2 2 2 0
samiir daate 2 2 2 0
satyashiil
deshapaanDe 2 2 2 0
shailesh mukharjii 2 2 2 0
shatrughan sinhaa 2 2 2 0
shyaamal mitraa 2 2 2 0
subiir sen 2 2 2 0
vijay singh 2 2 2 0
amol paalekar 2 2 1 1
ashok kumaar 2 2 1 1
diliip sen 2 2 1 1
jaanii baabuu
qavvaal 2 2 1 1
jogindar 2 2 1 1
jolly mukharjii 2 2 1 1
motii saagar 2 2 1 1
shaahuu modak 2 2 1 1
shashii kapuur 2 2 1 1
sundar 2 2 1 1
surindar kohalii 2 2 1 1
amiin saayaanii 2 2 0 2
chandrashekhar
gaaDagil 2 2 0 2
mahesh kumaar 2 2 0 2
pankaj mitraa 2 2 0 2
p. b. shriinivaas 2 1 2 0
rasik j. 2 1 2 0
shivaraam krishaN 2 1 2 0
aruN kumaar
mukharjii 2 1 1 1
gautam raay 2 1 1 1
muhammad yunus 2 1 1 1
vipin sachadev 2 1 1 1
These males have only one song with her, in one movie:
aanand baKshii, afazal husain, ambar kumaar, anil
bisvaas, annuu kapuur, anvar husain, aravind, aruN baKshii,
ashok khare, ashok khosalaa, baabalaa mehataa, baalakaraam,
badriinaath vyaas, basantaraav deshapaanDe, baTuk desaaii,
channii singh, Dannii Dangzonppaa, devendra, dhiiraj kumaar,
gangaa prasaad, gauhar kaanapurii, guradaas maan, hemant
bhosale, ismaail aazaad, jagajiit singh, k. baala-
subramaNyam, kamal, kamalesh avasthii, madan mahendra,
mahendra sandhuu, maheshvaram, master prakaash, mukul,
nanduu boharaa, naresh kannoDiyaa, naviin nishchal, nitin,
pankaj dhiir, pankaj udhaas, prem chopa.Daa, premanaath,
raaj grovar, raajiiv kapuur, raam, ramesh guptaa, raviindra
jain, s. g. shriikumaar, sanjay Kaan, santaraam, satiish
babbar, shaahid rafii, sukhavindar, suniil datt, surindar,
sushiil kumaar, talat azziiz, tiirath, vinod khannaa,
vishaal gosvaamii, vivek varmaa, yusuf aazaad.
These males have sung only one song with her in one
movie, but with other main voices also participating:
ajiit singh, amar sheK, amitaabh bachchan, anuup
guptaa, baasu, badrii pavaar, badriiprasaad, baggan, bonny
remeDios, brij bhuushaN, chitragupt, diliip raay, harindra-
naath chaTTopaadhyaay, jayavant kulakarNii, jyo, keshTo
mukharjii, kishor sharmaa, kokaakolaa, Kokaan chaudharii,
mahendra paal, mahesh, manamohan singh, mohan choTii,
mubaaraq, mukarii, narendra bhansaalii, narendra chanchal,
om prakaash, parashuraam, pascal paul, prayaag raaj, raajuu
shreshTha, raakesh hans, saaheb, shankar shambhuu, sharad
kumaar, sonik, subhaash, sudesh kumaar, suniil, sunny deol,
Tinu aanand, vinod, vinod meharaa.
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Acknowledgment: Most of what I write on Hindi films would
not have been possible without the constant support and
encouragement of my wife, Harmesh Kaur.
Enjoy!
Surjit Singh, a diehard movie fan(atic), period.
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