Posted by: Atul on: February 21, 2010
Bollywood music touched its nadir in 1980s when “Disco” music took over the music scene. The fact that Bappi Lahiri and Mithun da were the biggest beneficiary of that era says it all. Bappi Lahiri (though capable of creating great music) preferred to create forgettable music. Mithun da indulded in so called disco “densing”, which, [...]
Posted by: Atul on: September 22, 2009
“Aakhri Daao” (1958) was a suspense movie, which was one of the popular form of movies that were being produced by the Bollywood movie industry at that time.
Posted by: Atul on: May 27, 2009
This movie “Phaandebaaz” (1978) was rightly panned by the critics for being a hopeless movie, and so it proved. The movie failed at the box office and by now it is a forgotten movie.
Posted by: Atul on: March 25, 2009
When I was a young kid, I was made to believe that the hero-heroine would always be seen singing their love songs while running around trees. I am not very sure because I have not seen too many such songs.
Posted by: Atul on: March 24, 2009
Now a days, we keep talking about the deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs and we fondly remember the days gone by when there used to be high quality songs.
Posted by: Atul on: February 7, 2009
For some reason, I was unable to locate the video of this song. Now finally, my search for this song is over and I could locate the video. So here is a long pending farmaish of Raja finally being posted.
Posted by: Atul on: January 18, 2009
“Lage Raho Munna Bhai” is one new movie that I regard as one boasting one of the most original story line imaginable. And it is a very well made movie as well.
Posted by: Atul on: January 18, 2009
Here is yet another popular song from “Teesri Manzil”. In this song, Shammi Kapoor teases a girl, mistaking her for Asha Parekh and lands in trouble.
Posted by: Atul on: December 21, 2008
As Tapori songs go, this was creme de la creme of its genre which I liked a lot in 1970s. Ang guess what, I forgot all about this song. That is, till two days ago, when I accidentally stumbled upon this song again.And this time I realised that the song was from “Anokhi Ada”, the [...]
Posted by: Atul on: November 10, 2008
“Albela”, a movie released in 1952 was a blockbuster in all respects, be it success of the movie at the box offfice or the popularity of its songs. Almost all its songs went on to become hugely popular.
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