Posted by: Atul on: March 7, 2012
“Inteqaam” (1969) was a Shaktiman Enterprises movie. It was directed by R K Nayyar. Starcast of the movie had Sanjay Khan, Sadhana,Helen, Anju Mahendru, Bhagwan, Jeevan, Rajendranath, Asit Sen, Siddhu, Azad, Ashok Kumar, Rehman, Iftekhar, Leela Chitnis etc.
Posted by: Atul on: February 13, 2012
Here is another song of the genre “how come this song was not posted earlier”. And like always, my excuse is the same. I thought this song was already discussed but I was wrong.
Posted by: Atul on: September 28, 2011
When the movie is called “Afsaana”, one expects to see the famous movie starring Ashok Kumar. This movie is called Afsaana, and Ashok Kumar is in it, but it is not that famous movie of 1951, which was the original movie that had identical twin brothers as well as “separated in the mela” relatives. This [...]
Posted by: Atul on: April 7, 2009
I have posted two nice songs from this 1958 movie called “Post Box 999″ in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
Posted by: Atul on: April 1, 2009
“Bees Saal Baad” (1962), which is regarded as a milestone in Bollywood suspense movies, had some nice songs as well. Shakeel Badayuni was the lyricist and Hemant Kumar had composed the music.
Posted by: Atul on: January 1, 2009
This movie “Mahbooba” had a story of reincarnation and a haunting haveli. The music of R D Burman created just the right atmosphere for this movie in songs after songs.
Posted by: Atul on: November 11, 2008
Though Lata Mangeshkar made her debut as a playback singer in 1947, it was not like she became a singing legend almost overnight. For three years she was just another struggler in Bollywood. But the song that catapulted her to nationwide name and fame was the 1949 song “Aayega aanewaala aayega” from “Mahal”.
Posted by: Atul on: September 3, 2008
I have said it a few times and I need to say it again that Lata was at her peak in 1960s as a singer. The number of memorable songs that she churned out during this decade are many. Here is a memorable song from a suspense movie called Kohra.
Posted by: Atul on: September 1, 2008
Lata Mangeshkar was at her zenith in 1960s in my opinion. And she was helped in that by the fact that she was the preferred choice of the best music directors of that time, who also happened to be the all time greatest music directors of Bollywood. The same could be said about the lyricists. [...]
Posted by: Atul on: August 25, 2008
“Woh kaun thi” (1964) must rank as one of the best suspense movies made in Bollywood, and this song is arguably one of the best suspense songs in this movie as well as in the history of Bollywood movie music. Here is one Lata song where she for a change does not sound high pitched [...]
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