Posted by: Atul on: October 17, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Greetings to Simmi Grewal on her birthday today (17th October). Simmi ji, known to be one of the best dressed ladies in the industry, always appearing in very simple attire, yet very elegant, just the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 24, 2011
I have discussed as many as nine songs from “Nastik” (1954) and I have yet to run out of songs to discuss from this movie ! Here is another song from this movie. This is a “growing up” genre of thing. Nalini Jaiwant is reaching pubery and she is developing the tender feelings of the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 5, 2011
“Aanchal” (1960) is a movie that had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy,Nanda, Sudesh Kumar, Seema Deo etc in it. This movie had some nice songs in it and I have discussed as many as four songs from this movie so far.
Posted by: Atul on: June 13, 2011
If you rely upon most sites for knowing about the movie “Chaand”(1944), the only information you may come across is that this movie had Shashikala in it. The fact that Shashikala at that time was only 11 years old is obviously lost on these sites.
Posted by: Atul on: February 27, 2011
“Bilwamangal” (1954) is a movie that was made on the life of the blind poet of middle ages, namely Surdas, and the title role of Surdas was played by K C Dey, who himself was blind, just like Surdas.
Posted by: Atul on: September 5, 2010
In Hindi movies, Kids are supposed to be a straight line extention of grown ups, so they are shown behaving like grown ups. Lead actors who are shown in love with each other in their grown up age are shown to be in love with each other even in their childhood in case their childhood [...]
Posted by: Atul on: July 8, 2009
It is a very old song, exactly 62 years old to be precise. The Bollywood movie music then was in the process of evolving and maturing, and was still in a state of transition.
Posted by: Atul on: June 19, 2009
In case ordinary folks romance and then marry, then can relive their romancing days by looking at their old albums.
Posted by: Atul on: April 24, 2009
“Main Sundar Hoon”(1971) is not a movie that too many people may remember now. But this movie had some amazingly popular songs which were just the songs to appeal to youngsters.
Posted by: Atul on: March 18, 2009
Apart from the more popular songs of “Junglee”, I do not have much idea about other lesser known songs. For example, I was not aware that “Kashmir ki kali hoon main” is song from “Junglee”. One would expect it to be from “Kashmir ki kali”, is it not ?
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