Posted by: Atul on: April 15, 2011
In the second half of 1950s, Hindi movies saw the influence of rock and roll music. The music of these songs was influenced by Rock and roll in the western countries. The lyrics of these songs were mainly gibberish.
Posted by: Atul on: April 12, 2011
“Jaageer” (1959) is an obscure movie which had Premnath, Ulhas, Meena Kumari, Kuldeep Kaur etc in it.
Posted by: Atul on: March 4, 2011
After a somewhat longer wait than usual, here is that occasion again when this blog reaches a century and we celebrate it by discussing a special song ! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the 3600th song of this blog !
Posted by: Atul on: January 24, 2011
One normally associates Hemant Kumar’s voice and music with soft romantic/sentimental songs. But that does not mean that he could not sing /compose other kind of songs.
Posted by: Atul on: November 17, 2010
Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 12, 2010
This review is written by Greta (Memsaab), a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movies and its music This song is not your regular boy meeting the girl and running around the trees song. That stage is over, at least as far as Rajendranath and Madhavi are concerned. Yes,they have [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 16, 2010
This post is written by Greta (Memsaab) a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie songs I am very honored indeed to have been asked by Atul to write about this song from the film “Gumnaam.” It is song number 2800 on this blog and I think he has chosen [...]
Posted by: Atul on: May 19, 2010
This is one song that must be as rare a song as they come. Listen to this song and try to judge the people involved in the creation of the song. It is easy to notice that the song is picturised on Dhumal and Tuntun. One can also notice that the song is sung by [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 22, 2010
Among the major contributors in the development of Bollywood mov ie music, C Ramchandra’s name will always figure very prominently. The kind of music that he came up with is simply mind boggling. On the one hand he composed songs based on classical music as well as Indian folk music, and on the other hand [...]
Posted by: Atul on: July 3, 2009
In 1940s and 50s, Bollywood music drew mainly from folk music of India as well as from Hindustani classical music.
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