Archive for the ‘Radio Song’ Category
Aate jaate khoobsoorat aawaaraa sadkon pe
Posted by: Atul on: November 11, 2011
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“Anurodh” (1977) is a movie that paired erstwhile superstar Rajesh Khanna with Simple Kapadia, his sister in law. The movie did not do as well as was expected of this movie. But what lovely songs this movie had ! In fact, this movie is remembered today mainly for its songs.
Sajaayaa na karo phool baalon pe
Posted by: Atul on: November 1, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. With this write up, I initiate a series of posts (at least ten, may be some more) to cover some very wonderful gems, and yet, very obscure and rarely heard songs of Mukesh. Mukesh, a [...]
Saanwre saanwre
Posted by: Atul on: August 3, 2011
This is a gem of a song. And still this song is not known to too many people. By now I am no longer surprised or shocked by this fact that many great songs of yesteryears have been allowed to be lost to oblivion. Indians by and large are not keen students of history and [...]
Unhen qissa e gham jo likhne ko baithhe
Posted by: Atul on: July 26, 2011
“Nayaa Kaanoon” (1965) was a movie starring an over the hill Bharat Bhushan with Vyjyanti Mala. This movie was a box office disasater. As a result, the songs of this movie suffered. So much so that few people are aware of these songs. It is a pity because these songs are so nice to listen [...]
Ye daaman ab na chhootegaa kabhi
Posted by: Atul on: July 22, 2011
Most music directors have their own musical style and if one listens to the music of a song, one can often identify the music director. But sometimes music directors may copy the musical style of other more established music directors. We have seen music directors copying the musical styles of O P Nayyar,Shankar Jaikishan etc [...]
Aaja meri duniyaa mein
Posted by: Atul on: June 21, 2011
In olden days, most radio programmes used to be live programmes and appearing in radio programmes was considered a big deal. Many movie artists in fact cut their teeth working on radio in their earlier years.
Ae dard zaraa dam le
Posted by: Atul on: May 17, 2011
Now a days, electronic gizmos do not merit a second look. Every household now a days have itms like TV, computers, mobile phones etc.
Aaj ki raat badi shokh badi natkhat hai
Posted by: Atul on: January 12, 2011
During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to [...]
Bahaaron ne jise chhedaa hai
Posted by: Atul on: December 22, 2010
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Radio songs where a long lost individual sings live on radio station and his beloved just happens to be listening to that very radio station- this was one variation of lost and found themes that Hindi movies have been so fond of.
Yoon zindagi ke raaste
Posted by: Atul on: July 29, 2010
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One of the less common category of songs is what I call “Radio” songs. These are the songs that come out of Radio and people are shown listening to the song in front of their radios. And the hero/ heroine/ other actor is shown singing the song live in the radio station.
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