Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog Hindi cinema has had its share of superstars and stars. Whenever we think of the star, we tend to think of the person in his or her glory.
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
I have posted several songs from “Saathi” (1968) but even I was not aware of that the song under discussion was from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
In my definition, Chaayaageet song is one which is sung in the period between 10 PM to midnight. . That way, a song talking about a period after midnight is not a chaagyaageet song. May be I should call such a song as “post Chaayaageet period” song.
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
In Indian history/mythology/ folk tales, we have been handed down a few love stories, viz “Shirin Farhad”, “Sohni-Mahiwaal”,”Laila-Majnu” etc. All these love stories have one thing in common. And it is the tragic nature of these stories. And that is to be expected seeing that the ground reality in Indian culture does not allow people [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
Sad songs form an important genre of songs in Hindi movies. And it is noticed that many of such songs go on to become timeless classics.
Posted by: Atul on: August 31, 2010
Piano songs became very popular in Hindi movies in late 1940s. So popular in fact that they continued to remain popular in Hindi movies till 1970s.
Posted by: Atul on: August 30, 2010
This article is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music May 5th 1978 was a most awaited day for an Amitabh Bachchan fan. That day his latest movie Trishul got released. Zanjeer, Deewar, Sholay, Adalat and Khoon Pasina had been released in the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 30, 2010
I have not watched this movie called “Bachpan” (1970) but I recently stumbled upon this song from the movie. This song “aaya re khilaune waala” appears in the movie several times (at least four times) including at the end of the movie.
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