Archive for October 2008
- In: "Zindagi" song | expression of love | feel good song | Feelings of heart | introspection | Lata solo | Lata song | Love song | Missing the loved ones | needing each other | philosophical song | Poignant Song | Romantic song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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1970s saw the emergence of small budget family entertainers sans fights and violence. Amol Palekar and Vidhya Sinha were two of the leading “stars” of such movies. Two of their most memorable movies together were “Rajnigandha” and “Chhoti si baat”. These two movies can infact be treated as extensions of each other, that is how much these two movies had in common.
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It is one Bollywood movie that is inspired from a western movie and novel. But unlike most such inspired movies, this movie improves and enhances the original and comes up with a memorable tale that has the ability to move just about any person who has watched it.
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“Generations to come will scarcely believe that such a one as this walked on the earth in flesh and blood.”
–Einstein
The above quotation by Einstein was said as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, arguably the most influential man of the 20th century. He helped change the fate of millions of people around the globe. When one looks at the major movements of the 20th century- viz anticolonialism, anti apartheid, non violence, and movement against untouchability ( the last one a uniquely Indian social evil)- Gandhi was the motive force/ originator behind all these major movements. And it goes without saying that these movements helped change the destiny of millions of people and scores of nations around the globe.
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- In: "saawan" song | Amitabh Bachchan songs | Amitabh Bachchan songs by Kishore Kumar | Happy song | joie de vivre | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lata solo | Lata song | Lyrics by Sudhir | Lyrics contributed by readers | Multiple version song | needing each other | Rain song | Romantic song | Simply joy | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1979 | Translation by Sudhir | Translations by readers | Yearwise breakup of songs
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This movie “Manzil” was one of the unsuccessful movies of Amitabh Bachchan, but this one song from this movie, viz “Rimjhim gire saawan” has become the stuff of legends already. It is one of the first songs that comes to mind when one thinks of rain songs.
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When one talks of tragic actors, what are the names that come to mind ? Guru Dutt and Meena Kumari ? It may be news for people, but in the first decade of their career viz 1950s, they were both known for playing positive, energetic ,bubbly characters oozing with zest for life.
The crown for being the first major tragedy queen of that era should rightfully belong to Nutan. She played quite a few memorable tragic roles in movies. She in fact played a tragic role as early as in 1955 in a movie called “Seema”.
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I have mentioned in the past that I had a diary in 1970s, in which I noted down the lyrics of the songs that I liked the most. A few of the songs noted at that time have become forgotten, though they are just as good to listen to now as they were then.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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