Archive for December 2008
Tu chhupi hai kahaan
Posted on: December 25, 2008
“Navrang”, a musical blockbuster from 1958 had some awesome songs, one of which “aadha hai chandrama raath aadhi” has already appeared in this blog. Here is another fabulous song from “Navrang” sung by Manna Dey and Asha Bhonsle. Bharat Vyas was an expert lyricist, and C Ramchandra was the music director of this movie. Together they have created this memorable song.
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Apne jeewan ki uljhan ko
Posted on: December 25, 2008
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Rajshri Productions movies of 1970s tended to have their music ( as well as lyrics) by Ravindra Jain, till Ram Laxman took over in 1980s. In that respect, “Uljhan”, a 1975 Rajshri Productions movie was an exception. Its music was composed by Kalyanji Anandji whereas M G Hashmat was the lyricist.
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Naa kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon
Posted on: December 25, 2008
Creating myths and perpetuating them is easy when the myth sounds plausible. One of the biggest myths surrounding “na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon” is that it was written by the last Moghul Bahadurshah Zafar. Most people, including me, believed this myth. But I have come to know that this myth created is not true.
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Dil mera ek aas ka pancchi
Posted on: December 25, 2008
This is a “bicycle” song where Rajendra Kumar plays an NCC cadet. He releases a dove into sky and then sings this song riding a bicycle with his fellow bicyclists.
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Deewaane ka naam to poocho
Posted on: December 24, 2008
One fine day, I will count all the Rafi songs that he sang for Shammi Kapoor and find out how many such songs were there in all. There just seems to be so many of them. And all of them are so wonderful to listen to. Listening to these songs is a perfect recipe to cheer oneself up.
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Zindagi kaisi hai paheli haay
Posted on: December 24, 2008
Hrishikesh Mukherjee saw a Japanese movie in a film festival and he was so impressed with that movie that he not only made it into “Anand”, but he also later remade his own remake ( with the protagonist a female this time) into “Mili”.
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Kal ki haseen mulaaqaat ke liye
Posted on: December 24, 2008
When an aged couple want to reminisce on their good old days, what do they do ? they look at old sepia tones photographs in old albums. but when it comes to filmy couples viz Dharmendra and Hema Malini, or Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh, all they need to do is watch their old movies.
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In movies, we often have musical showdowns, where two singers are pitted against each other.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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