Archive for February 2009
Aate jaate pahloo me aaye koyi
Posted on: February 12, 2009
It is so pleasant to watch Meena Kumari singing a happy song. But then this song is from “Yahudi”, a 1958 movie and Meena Kumari had yet to start playing those melancholic roles that she later became associated with.
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“Mehboob ki Mehandi” was a Rajesh Khanna movie of 1971. It had lyrics by Anand Bakshi and music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. So one can guess that this movie must have some lilting music. And indeed that is how it was.
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Man ki been matwaari baaje
Posted on: February 11, 2009
When I watched this song, the first thing that occured to me was that this scene, if not the entire movie, was definitely inspired from the Sanskrit novel called “Rajtarangini” written by the famous Sanskrit scholar Bilhan. In that story, a music tutor is employed to teach music to the princess of a state. Afraid that the two may feel attracted to each other if they come face to face, the two are separated from each other by a curtain. The princess is told that the music tutor is ugly and the music totor is told that the princess is blind.
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Mere dil mein hai ik baat
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Few people have heard of this movie called “Post Ofice Box 999”.It had Sunil Dutt and Shakila in lead roles.
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Milo na tum to ham ghabraayen
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Like Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs,there used to be another great combination in the past, and that was Lata-Madan Mohan songs. These two have created many wonderful songs during their association of about 24 years.
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Pahla pahla pyaar hai ye
Posted on: February 11, 2009
This song is from a 1966 movie called “Badtameez”. I have no idea what this movie was all about, but the movie boasted of big names in Bollywood music. Shankar Jaikishan were the music directors while Shailendra wrote the lyrics.
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Just like we had Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs, we also had Mukesh-Raj Kapoor songs.
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Dil gham se jal raha hai
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Here is an old song from 1961 which I had never heard before till yesterday. This song is sung by Lata Suman Kaltanpur for Nimmi and the movie is “Shama”.
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Meri hasraton ki duniya
Posted on: February 10, 2009
The movie was no great shakes. But one still needs to sit up and take notice as far as this movie is concerned. The lead characters ( Kiran Kumar and Radha Saluja, I think) do not deserve to lipsync such a divine song, but they do , and in the process try to pull the song down alongwith the movie.
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Matlab nikal gaya hai to
Posted on: February 10, 2009
This is an absolutely iconic song from “Amaanat”. If I used the word iconic song, then chances were bright that Ravi must be the music ditrector, and that indeed turns out to be the case for this song. Sahir Ludhianvi had written this song, and Rafi had sung this song which is easily one
of the most memorable songs on the topic of opportunists females taking advantage of gullible suitors.
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