Archive for November 2008
Je hum tum chori se
Posted on: November 9, 2008
I have posted many Mukesh solo songs in this blog, and most of them were “sad” songs of different denominations and varieties. This particular song is a duet, and moreover, it is not a sad song. So here is a Mukesh song, sung with Lata from “Dharti Kahe Pukaar ke” that can surely qualify to be called a gem.
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Choodi nahin ye mera dil hai
Posted on: November 9, 2008
With this song, I introduce a new tag viz “choodi” song. The word “choodi” dominates this song. In this song, Dev Anand and Zaahida are seen seated behind a car, with our ageless Dev Saab singing this song “choodi nahin mera dil hai dekho toote naa”.
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Aao tumhen main pyaar sikha doon
Posted on: November 9, 2008
I have posted a song ( “darpan ko dekha toone jab jab kiya singaar”) from “Upaasna” earlier in this blog which was picturised on Feroz Khan and Mumtaz and was sung by Mukesh. Here is another song from the same movie.
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Aasmaan se neeche
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Ever since I started following Bollywood movies, I have been hearing that Bollywood songs basically show Hero and Heroine running around trees. All these days I was curious to see one such song.
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Lapak jhapak tu aare badarwaa
Posted on: November 8, 2008
This is supposed to be a comedy song sung by a lesser actor in the movie, and comedy is sought to be introduced by singing a semi classical song.
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Jumma chumma de de
Posted on: November 8, 2008
In this blog, I often talk of quality, class, originality etc while discussing songs. But there are occasions when all these admirable qualities take the back seat and we like to listen to songs that hardly seem to possess such high ideals. These are songs that are purely time pass low brow songs, shamelessly plagiarised, with lyrics that are no great shakes and may be even in poor taste, and with picturisation to match. And surprisingly, there are such songs who manage to become chart busters.
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The movie “Padosan” was a laugh riot. The movie was a musical blockbuster too. Apart from the by now legendary ” mere saamne waali khidki mein” “ek chatur naar”,this movie had other hummable songs as well and these songs have their fan following too.
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Ae maine kasam li
Posted on: November 8, 2008
Dev Anand was one of the leading heart throbs of Bollywood in 1950s and 60s. It is my personal opinion that he should have retired from playing teenage hero in 1960s as soon as he turned 40.
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Babul pyaare
Posted on: November 8, 2008
This movie had an ageing ( read already aged) Dev Anand paired against the rising star Hema Malini. The movie turned out to be a hit. The story line was quite engrosing and the movie was shot in exotic places like Nepal and elsewhere.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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