Archive for June 2011
Aisa lagey kahin door se
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
It is generally believed that songs become rare and obscure due to ravages of time. And the process is speeded up if the song is from an obscure movie.
Teri zulfon se judaayi to nahin maangi thhi
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
It is a song that I have heard many a times right from my younger days, and I in fact had noted down the lyrics of this song in a diary that I used to maintain in 1970s. This diary had lyrics of songs noted down by me from radio as well as scorecards of [...]
Kaise bijli chamak gayi ho kaise
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
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“Do Gunde” (1959) is a movie where Raj Kumar and Ajit play the two Gunde (ruffians) and their love interests are played by Kumkum and Jayshree Gadkar respectively.
Haay taqdeer meri haay taqdeer meri
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
“Jal Tarang” (1949) is an obscure movie starring Rehman,Geeta Bali,Shashikala,Ram Singh,Rajan Haksar,Shyama etc.
Jhooloongi jhooloongi
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
“Shakuntala” (1943) is easily a milestone movie in the annals of Hindi movies. It was the very first movie of Rajkamal Chitramandir that V Shantaram had founded. This was the first time that V Shantaram collaborated with Vasant Desai as music director and Jayshree as the leading lady. He in fact fell in love with [...]
Bhajoon main to bhaav se
Posted by: Atul on: June 30, 2011
“Pooran Bhagat” (1933) came just two years after the first Hindi talkie came up in 1931, and it is one of the oldest movie whose songs have been discussed in this movie.
Mere do nainaa matwaare
Posted by: Atul on: June 29, 2011
When one listens to the songs of the golden era, one realises that the overall quality of the songs was quite high. Not just the big name music directors, even small time music directors were creating quality stuff. The only difference between big names and small names was marketability, otherwise qualitywise, even music directors confined [...]
O jiyaa o jiyaa kuchh bol do
Posted by: Atul on: June 29, 2011
This evergreen song from “Jab Pyaar Kisi Se Hota Hai”(1961) wears multiple hats. The song is a multiple version song in the sense that this song is sung independently by two singer, viz Rafi in one version and Lata in another version. The song can be called the title song as well as theme song. [...]
Laa de mohe baalmaa aasmaani choodiyaan
Posted by: Atul on: June 29, 2011
These are are days of consumerism where people have mind boggling variety of materials to choose from. It is difficult to imagine today that Indian shops till 1970s wore spartan looks and they hardly had anything to offer. People got “phoren” goods from abroad and flaunted them proudly. And smuggling (bringing items without paying the [...]
Taare gin gin ke katati hai raat meri
Posted by: Atul on: June 29, 2011
When I was growing up in late 1960s and early 1970s, I was upset with oldtimer movie makers of earlier decades. Why did they oldtimers create such “boring” songs. And secondly, why would they give their movies the same titles as the movies of 1970s. Yes, I blamed old movie makers for their titles like [...]
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