Archive for the ‘Songs picturised in cities’ Category
Sach sach sach o dear sach sach
Posted on: March 23, 2013
Though most Hindi movies of 1950s and 1960s had “mainstream” story lines, but a few comedy movies too were produced during that era. Quite a few of these movies had Kishore Kumar in the lead roles. Then there were some other actors who too were making their marks as comedy actors. I S Johar was one such actor.
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Suniye kahiye
Posted on: February 13, 2013
I thank Sudhir jee for the HUGE writeup on the 7500th song! It took me more than one hour to post it so one can only imagine how much time it must have taken him to type it down.
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Ye mera jeewan tere liye hai
Posted on: December 15, 2012
“Babu” (1985) was a remake of a Tamil movie of 1971 of the same name which was in turn remake of a Malayalam movie of 1965 (called Odayil Ninnu).
“Babu” (1985) was produced by V R Parmeshwaram and directed by A G Trilokchandar. The movie had Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Rati Agnihotri, Madan Puri, Rajendranath etc in it.
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This article is written by Ava Suri, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
By the time 90s came along Hindi movies were getting loud, the heros were mannerless, ill-bred uncouth fellows. Sadak Chhap Romeos with a heart of gold, diamonds in the rough who start out rather badly, but by the end, redeem themselves by doing the right thing.
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Babu samjho ishaare horn pukaare
Posted on: October 13, 2012
Today (13 october) is the birth anniverasry of Ashok Kumar as well as the death anniversary of Kishore Kumar. After Kishore Kumar’s death on this day 25 years ago, Ashok Kumar stopped celebrating his birthday, naturally. The two brothers, alongwith their third brother Anup Kumar were quite close to each other and we were privileged to see the three brothers together in all the movies that were produced by Kishore Kumar.
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Pyaar mohabbat pranay lagaawat
Posted on: September 29, 2012
Today (29 september) is the birth anniversary of Ravi Baswani (September 29, 1946 – July 27, 2010). Ravi Baswani made his debut as a comedian in 1980s and he acted in some lovely comedy movies of that era, viz “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron”, “Peechha Karo” etc.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Most of the popular Hindi film songs of golden era are remembered even today not only because of melodies and rhythms embedded in them but also because the lyrics of those songs are poetic and meaningful. The quality of lyrics in Hindi film songs started deteriorating sometime from the beginning of 90s and by 2000 onwards, the deterioration in lyrics was almost complete. However, there were a few poet-lyricists who continued to write meaningful lyrics for the Hindi film songs even in 21st century though they had to occasionally cross the ‘self imposed laxman rekha’ in keeping with the current waves of the Hindi film music. Among such poet-lyricists, names of Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Hasan Kamal and Prasoon Joshi come to my mind.
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Dilli hai dil Hindustan ka
Posted on: August 15, 2012
Today (15 august 2012) is the 65th Independence day of India.
The main function on this day is held in New Delhi at the Red Fort (Laal Qila) from where the Prime Minister addresses the nation. The eyes of the nation are glued to New Delhi on the occasion through TV, Radio, etc.
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Dekho jee dekho sun lo ye baat
Posted on: July 29, 2012
Today (29 july) is the death anniversary of F C Mehra (29 august 1923 – 29 july 2008), who set up Eagle Films and he produced some well known movies from 1960 onwards.
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Hum panchhi mastaane
Posted on: July 14, 2012
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Today is the death anniversary of Madan Mohan, a music composer who is synonymous with some of the finest music we have seen in Hindi cinema.
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