Archive for the ‘Century songs for the blog’ Category
Geet kitne gaa chuki hoon
Posted by: Atul on: May 23, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. The year – 1997. For the first time ever (October ’97), an Indian artist is being honored as the ‘Artist of the Month’ by MTV channel on cable TV. At the age of 64, a [...]
Jo ik baar keh do ke tum ho hamaare
Posted by: Atul on: May 16, 2012
This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. In around mid-50s, I used to often hear a song ‘chal chal re musaafir chal’ which I liked it. But I had no idea or rather I never ventured to know as to which [...]
Chali Radhe raani ankhiyon mein paani
Posted by: Atul on: May 1, 2012
“Upar Gagan Vishaal, Neeche Gehraa Pataal” – the unforgettable sound from the film ‘Mashaal’ (1950). The words carry a thrill – they have been written by Kavi Pradeep. The music is an uplifting exuberant melody – composed by SD Burman. And voice, the sound of which will make one sit up or even stand up [...]
Khai ke paan banaaraswaala
Posted by: Atul on: April 29, 2012
This article is written by Santosh Ojha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and an old contributor to this blog. When Atul wrote to me in his usual polite way the other day that I must write a post on this song I was taken aback. I have been a (mostly silent) reader of [...]
Chanda ke paas ik taara
Posted by: Atul on: April 26, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Sometimes a rhythm, a tune just sticks into the mind and keeps replaying itself over and over again. This is what has happened, when I bumped into this song two days ago. I was preparing [...]
Neend kabhi rahti thi aankhon mein ab rahte hain saanwariyaa
Posted by: Atul on: April 15, 2012
“Aasra” (1966) was a Seven arts pictures Production. It was directed by Satyen Bose. The movie had Biswajeet, Mala Sinha, Ameeta, Jagdeep, Bela Bose, Nirupa Roy, Parveen Paul, Balraj Sahni, David Abraham etc in it.
Nateeja hamaari muhabbat ka kyaa hai
Posted by: Atul on: April 5, 2012
I became aware of “Puraskaar” (1970) after Memsaab reviewed this movie in her blog. It turns out that the movie is a treasure of great songs. I wonder how I was not aware of this movie when it was released in 1970s, seeing that this movie had music by R D Burman and I, like [...]
Babam babam bam bam lehri
Posted by: Atul on: April 4, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. This post is a special post that celebrates the 400th song of Mukesh on this blog. Given that the total list of all known recordings of songs by Mukesh ji is just a little below [...]
Shama pe aake o parwaane
Posted by: Atul on: March 30, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Given that during most of the 50s, C Ramchandra was very favorably inclined towards Lata, I was just wanting to find out what is the earliest that he had used the voice of Asha Bhosle. [...]
Kehne waale tu bhi keh le
Posted by: Atul on: March 26, 2012
The makers of “Qawwali Ki Raat” (1964) had a tough task ahead of them. They were required to make a movie along the lines of “Barsaat Ki Raat” (1960).
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