Posted by: Atul on: February 18, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Listening to the lines in this qawwaali, one can get a feeling that they are coming from the pen of Sahir Ludhianvi, such is the power and the style of messaging that his poetry ensconces. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: February 4, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. “Hum Log’ (1951) is a production from the banner of Ranjit Movietone, but more than that, it is a signature piece by Zia Sarhadi, who has written and directed this film. This film is one [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 30, 2012
This article is written by Khyati Bhatt, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.” This is the statement written by a German-born theoretical physicist and a [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 26, 2012
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog. Greetings to all Atulites on the celebration today, of the 63rd Republic Day of the Indian Union. There is an interesting history and facts behind this date. After the massacre at the Jalianwala Bagh in [...]
Posted by: Atul on: January 26, 2012
Today is 26th january, the 63rd republic day of India. For this blog, it is the fourth republic day. During these three past Republic day occasions as well on the three occasions of Independence day of India, this blog has covered most well known patriotic songs from Hindi movies.
Posted by: Atul on: December 12, 2011
“Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) is a B R Films production which was produced by B R Chopra and directed by Yash Chopra. The star cast of the movie had names viz. Mala Sinha, Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Manmohan Krishna,Leela Chitins, Daisy Irani, Ashok Kumar,Amir Banu, Jagdish Raaj, Narbada Shankar, Uma Dutt, Mohan Choti, Jeevan, Mehmood, Sushil [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 14, 2011
“Swami Vivekanand” (1955), by now an obscure movie on the life of Swami Vivekanand, was produced and directed by Amar Mallick. This movie had Ajit Prakash, Suprabha Mukerji, Bharati Devi, Manoranjan Bhattacharji, Anuva Gupta etc in it. This movie obviously was not meant to entertain and as a rsult the movie did not do well [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 13, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog. Today happens to be the 24th death anniversary of one of the absolute geniuses that our Hindi film industry has ever produced. He was a colossus, especially as a singer, and there is certainly no [...]
Posted by: Atul on: October 11, 2011
Jagjit Singh (8 feb 1941-10 oct 2011) expired yesterday. So today we in this blog are paying our tributes to him by discussing a few songs sung by him.
Posted by: Atul on: September 17, 2011
When it comes to artists of 1940s, there was a plethora of two names. One name was Khursheed and another was Shyam. There were far too many persons being called Khursheed and Shyam. The onfusion was further enhanced by the fact that the two Shyams will act together in the movie and one Shyam would [...]
This blog discusses Bollywood songs of yesteryears. Every song has a brief description, followed by a video link, and complete lyrics of the song.
This is a labour of love, where "new" songs are added every day, and that has been the case for more than three years. This blog has over 6000 songs by now.
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