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Aaj nahin to kal bikhar jaayenge ye baadal

Posted by: Atul on: August 18, 2011

“Mashaal” (1950) is a movie That had Ashok Kumar, Sumitra Devi and Rooma Devi in lead roles. This movie had some nice songs in it including the song Upar gagan vishaal which launched Manna Dey’s career as a playback singer.

Teer pe teer khaaye jaa

Posted by: Atul on: October 11, 2010

It is popularly believed that Sajjad Hussain composed songs in 14 movies and that his last musical composition came in 1963. That is not correct. Sajjad Hussain composed music in 17 movies and the last time he composed music in a movie was in 1977.

Ae dil tujhe qasam hai

Posted by: Atul on: July 29, 2010

I have not posted a song featuring Madhubala for quite song time now. Here is one such song from her earlier days.

Ye safar bahut hai kathin magar

Posted by: Atul on: September 6, 2009

“1942, A love story” (1993) was a movie where the music saved the day for the movie. The songs of this movie were reminishent of 1960s where music tended to be a major attraction of movies.

Jeet hi lenge baazi ham tum…pyaar ka bandhan toote naa

Posted by: Atul on: August 25, 2009

I have heard this song several times in the past and I thought it must be a song from 1950s. But it turns out to be a song of 1961 and it is from “Shola Aur Shabnam”.

Na milta gham to barbaadi ke afsaane kahaan jaate

Posted by: Atul on: May 18, 2009

“Amar” (1954) was a movie starring Dilip Kumar, Nimmi and Madhubala. Few people today may have heard abut this movie. But as happened with many old movies of those days, this movie too has some very nice songs.

Raahi manwa dukh ki chinta kyun sataati hai

Posted by: Atul on: December 29, 2008

I have already mentioned that the movie “Dosti” (1964) was made memorable thanks to its music. Rafi sang some immortal songs in this movie and Laxmikant Pyarelal’s career was launched big time with this movie.

Tum mujhe bhool bhi jaao

Posted by: Atul on: December 29, 2008

This is a song from Didi (1959) and what a song it is ! It is sung by a female voice other than the usual names. It is Sudha Malhotra who has sung this song. Not just singing, she was also the music director of this song. Lyrics were written by Sahir Ludhianvi.

Pyaar kiya to darna kya

Posted by: Atul on: December 23, 2008

“pyaar kia to darna kya” is easily one of the most well known lines from Bollywood movie songs. Shakeel Badayuni’s lyrics for this movie in general and this song in particular have passed into folklore.

Kaun kisi ko baandh saka hai

Posted by: Atul on: November 20, 2008

In Bollywood movies, jail inmates are often shown as comedians, and there are a few comedy songs in Bollywood movies sung by the jailbirds, viz in “Vishwanath”. “Kaaliya” too has a jail song, but here it is a philosophical song. This song is not sung by the hero ( Amitabh) or any other main character [...]


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