Archive for October 2008
Kisi raah mein kisi modpar
Posted on: October 27, 2008
I have posted different kind of songs in this blog. There is one big category of songs which are sung atop some mode of transportation viz car, train, boat etc. I have noticed that Jeetendra, the jumping jack takes the cake when it comes to singing songs atop different modes of transportation. In addition to the usual modes of man made transportations, he has sung song atop less obvious modes of transportation too. For instance, there was one Jeetendra song sung atop an elephant. I am sure he must have sung songs riding a horse also. He may have missed singing while riding buffalo and donkey though.
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Gore nahin hum kaale sahi
Posted on: October 26, 2008
In Bollywood masala songs, there is this typical situation where the hero must enter the high security den of the villain. The hero makes it to the den in disguise and the villains are unable to identify, despite his disguise often being nothing more than a thin moustache.
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Jaidev served as assistants to leading music directors of his era for most of his career. On a few occasions that he got to compose music as an independent music director, he did a very good job. But it takes a lot more than just the ability to compose great music. Jaidev composed some fantastic music, but his name would not sell as a music director, so he repaetedly had to go back to his job as assistants to leading music directors viz S D Burman, Madan Mohan etc.
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Kishore Kumar has sung some wonderful comedy songs in his long career. This blog has featured some of them. There are many great comedy songs of Kishore Kumar that remain to be posted.
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Do deewaane shahar mein
Posted on: October 25, 2008
Here is a fantastic song from “Gharonda”. Neither the movie, nor the song were mainstream ones by the standards of 1977, but this song and this movie struck the right chords in the hearts of the audience.
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Seene mein jalan
Posted on: October 25, 2008
This ghazal was from the movie Gaman (1978). It was an art movie, and art movies those days tended to have ghazals in them. In fact, art movies often had lots of ghazals which became quite popular.
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Barkha rani zara jam ke barso
Posted on: October 24, 2008
There are different songs for different times and moods. When it is time for rains, it is time for love to blossom in Bollywood. That way, I have always felt that the Valentine day (and season) in Bollywood is not in the spring season, but in the rainy season.
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Yaad naa jaaye beete dinon ki
Posted on: October 24, 2008
“Dil ek Mandir”, regarded as one of the celebrated melancholic movie in Bollywood industry is full of sad songs to match, almost all of which went on to become very popular and in fact evergreen. I have already posted a couple of songs from this movie in this blog. This movie had one nice song after another coming out as if they were coming out of some assembly line.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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