Archive for the ‘Post by Raja’ Category
Laanat hai aisi muhabbat pe pyaare
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. I remember being one of the first few fans of this blog when Atul started it in mid-2008. Being crazy about old Hindi songs, I was very excited that Atul was starting this. His original [...]
Beema Life Insurance Policy
Posted by: Atul on: May 15, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. It is with great pleasure that I write this tribute today to Johnny Walker, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) comedy actors we have seen in Hindi cinema. Today happens to be his [...]
Le jaa meri duaayen daaman chhudaane waale
Posted by: Atul on: May 10, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Today happens to be the 10th death anniversary of Kaifi Azmi, one of the foremost Indian Urdu poets of the 20th century. It was on the 10th of May 2002 that Kaifi saab breathed his [...]
Ye ladka haaye Allah kaisa hai deewaana
Posted by: Atul on: April 28, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. My last few posts have been about songs of the 1970s. As I’ve explained before, this is only because I find it easier to talk about that decade. Some golden-era film and music lovers may [...]
Kasam Khuda ki jo kuchh kahoongaa
Posted by: Atul on: April 19, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Recently I wrote up a 1970s song here and today I’m presenting another 1970s song. I know that by the standards of this blog, the 1970s is a fairly recent decade. Most of the songs [...]
Tu laali hai sawerewaali
Posted by: Atul on: April 18, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. One of the advantages of living through a period (as opposed to reading or hearing about it second-hand) is that you have your own experiences of it that nothing else can quite substitute for. Of [...]
Daiyya re daiyya laaj mohe laage
Posted by: Atul on: March 25, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. In a recent post (“koi aaya lachak uthi kaaya”), I had talked about seeing the film Dastaan (1972) on a flight. As it turned out, that was not the only film I saw on that [...]
Koi aaya lachak uthhi kaayaa
Posted by: Atul on: March 23, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. One of my many weaknesses is that at any given point in time I’m humming or singing a song, completely oblivious to the surroundings. This has resulted in embarrassing situations at times (like when I [...]
Ye bhi koi roothhne ka mausam hai deewaane
Posted by: Atul on: February 25, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Tolstoy is reported to have said “Music is the shorthand of emotion”. Nietzche is supposed to have said “Without music, life would be a mistake”. A quote attributed to Aldous Huxley goes “After silence, that [...]
Neel gagan ki chhaaon mein
Posted by: Atul on: February 24, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Sometimes when I think back at how my taste in movies and songs has changed since I was a young boy, I can hardly believe that I’m the same person who, way back in the [...]
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