Archive for January 2009
Ye mera deewaanapan hai
Posted on: January 30, 2009
I was not aware that Mukesh had given playback for Dilip Kumar. Here I can see that this Mukesh song is picturised on Dilip Kumar.
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Zindagi ye zindagi
Posted on: January 30, 2009
The movie is called “Daulat” and this song is an archtypical villain’s den song. Hero and heroine are in “disguise” of sorts and the lady keeps gesturing to the hero during her singing. I do not know how successful she is in communicating that way. The villain and his gangsters appear smarter than usual, and they have taken up positions as waiters in the club where this song is being sung.
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Ab kya misaal doon main
Posted on: January 30, 2009
In this fourth song of “Aarti” that I am posting in this blog, The two lead actors have become familiar with each other and they can take the liberty of opening their hearts to each other.
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I have talked about Rafi singing brilliant songs for Shammi Kapoor. This led to many imitators, who would make Shammi Kapoor movies by signing up Shammi Kapoor clones. Thus we had actors like Joy Mukherjee, Vishwajeet etc who had reasonably successful careeres playing Shammi Kapoor type roles.
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Here is a much loved song from “Anaadi” which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Raj Kumar. This song is a standard Raj Kapoor production, in the sense that this song is created by the standard Raj Kapoor team. The song is penned by Shailendra and the music is composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
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I bet few people have heard about this movie called “Champakali” (1957). This movie had a hero on decline (Bharat Bhooshan) paired up with a very young Suchitra Sen, who would later become a legendary actress in Bangla movies.
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For most people living outside Bombay, Bombay means movie actors. When I was first going to Bombay as a 11 year old kid, my school mates were convinced that I was going to meet Hema Malini there.
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“Prem Nagar” (1974) was a movie where the reigning male superstar and the biggest female star were brought together in the same movie for the first time. Perhaps the hype was too much, or may be the contents were not good enough. Whatever the reasons, this movie failed at the box office despite the presence of Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini.
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Zikr Hota Hai jab qayaamat ka
Posted on: January 29, 2009
The golden era of Bollywood music saw some big name music directors enriching the music of these movies. There were many such names.
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In my series of posts on the songs of “Aarti” (1962), here is the third song in the series.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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