Archive for March 2011
Jeewan se bhari teri aankhen
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2011
Kishore Kumar, who made his debut as a playback singer in 1948 remained on the fringes for the first two decades of his singing career. It was in 1968 that he burst into the Hindi playback scene like a Tsunami that swept away everything in its wake.
Arre o re dharti ki tarah har dukh sah le
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2011
There are occasions when one listens to songs and likes them without being aware of the name of the movie the song belongs to. In fact there are some movies that manage to remain non descript and obscure despite containing some really fine songs in it.
Badaa khushnaseeb hai jise tu naseeb hai
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2011
“Pyaase Panchhi” (1960) is a movie starring Mehmood and Ameeta. Most probably this movie met the same fate as most movies that had Mehmood as the hero, viz the movie failed at the box office.
Hota raha yoon hi agar anjaam wafaa kaa
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2011
I have discussed five songs from “Malhaar” (1951) so far that are rather better known and readily available.
Ik baar agar tu kah de
Posted by: Atul on: March 22, 2011
“Malhaar” (1951) is quite a musical blockbuster of its time which firmly established Roshan’s credentials as a high quality music director.
Ang se ang lagaanaa sajan
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2011
I have discussed nearly twenty Holi songs in this blog during the three Holis that this blog has seen so far. That covers almost all the well known Holi songs and also a few songs that are not all that well known.
Bhaagi re bhaagi re bhaagi brijbaalaa
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2011
When I meet people and I tell them that I have a blog of old songs, I get some well meaning advices, suggestions etc. One of these well meaning suggestions is that I need not re invent the wheel as far as writing down the lyrics of the song is concerned. Lyrics of all these [...]
Aaj holi hai holi
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2011
I have discussed almost all the well known Holi songs of Hindi movies in this blog. But that does not mean that I have discussed all the holi songs of Hindi movies. There are lesser known Holi songs from Hindi movies too that are interesting songs on their own right.
Aao re aao khelo holi
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2011
“Baalika Badhu” (Child bride) as the name suggests was a movie made on the theme of child marriage. In this movie, Sachin and Rajni Sharma play the children who get married to each other. Sachin has some idea of what marriage is all about but his bride (played by a then thirteen year old Rajni [...]
Chunar mori kori
Posted by: Atul on: March 20, 2011
“Naya Raastaa” (1970) is somehow a movie that is largely unknown. It comes as a great surprise to me because it was an a grade movie starring Jeetendra and Asha Parekh.
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