Archive for November 2008
Kya miliye aise logon se
Posted on: November 15, 2008
When a seminar/ get-together/ function etc is organised, these programmes have addresses made by eminent people viz chief guest, invited dignitaries etc. Suppose Bollywood decided to make a movie on this topic. Then how would a movie made on this subject look like ?
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Here is yet another song from 1970s which I liked a lot those days, without having much details about it, except that it was sung by Kishore Kumar. It went “koyi maane ya na maane jo kal tak the anjaane, wo aaj hamen jan se bhi pyaare ho gaye”.
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Nanha munna raahi hoon
Posted on: November 13, 2008
India of 1960s was a much more simple and uncomplicated nation, where cynicism about the nation and its leaders had yet to take roots. People actually looked upto the national leaders. Every household compulsorily had the pictures of national leaders on their drawing room walls. Framed photographs of Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Prasad, and Jawaharlal Nehru were there in all households.
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Eena meena deeka
Posted on: November 13, 2008
In 1940s and 1950s, Bollywood music was undergoing a period of transition. New kinds of music were being introduced. One was the introduction of folk music from different parts of India. Another was a mixture of such folk music with classical music.
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“Kasauti” was a movie with Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in the lead. The movie flopped badly. But there was one song in this movie that became very popular those days. It was the song ” Hum bolega to bologe ki bolta hai”. It was sung by Kishore Kumar. But it was not picturised on Amitabh, the hero of the movie, but on Pran, the erstwhile villain who had turned a new leaf into a character artist those days. In this song, he dons the garb of a gurkha.
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“Aar Paar” was one movie that launched O P Nayyar as a music director and he ruled the roost as a music director for the next few years, during which he introduced new kind of music than what was being composed till then.
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Nagin was one of the earliest and biggest musical blockbusters in Bollywood movies. And this movie coincided with the beginning of Binaca geetmala countdown show. The nagin been music had the entire nation swaying like the nagin in the movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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