Archive for February 2009
Music director Ravi deserved much more credit than he actually received as a music director. I have mentioned it in the past that a large number of iconic songs from Bollywood movies are his creations. Just name the subject, and he has an iconic song or two on the subject.
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I had heard this song as a child, but I never came to know what movie this song was from- till a few days ago.
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Ghar aaja ghir aaye badra
Posted on: February 7, 2009
R D Burman was an assistant to his father S D Burman for several years before he caught the eye of Mahmood who decided to give him his first break as an independent music director.
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There were quite a few songs containing “Zindagi” in their lyrics those days, and almost all of them were very popular songs. In fact, it was like each one of these songs gave a different interpretation of “Zindagi”. Some song would call “Zindagi” “ek paheli”, some would call it a “naatak”, some would call it a “khel” etc.
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For some reason, I was unable to locate the video of this song. Now finally, my search for this song is over and I could locate the video. So here is a long pending farmaish of Raja finally being posted.
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Daaman mein daagh lagaa baithe
Posted on: February 6, 2009
“Dhool ka Phool” (1959) was a moving tale about an unwed mother and her child. Mala Sinha falls in love with Rajendra Kumar and they have a pre marital fling,assured in the knowledge that they would get married to each other. But then Rajendra Kumar ditches her and gets married to a girl of his parents’ choice. And Mala Sinha, as can be expected, is pregnant.
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Roshan tumhin se duniya
Posted on: February 6, 2009
“Parasmani” was the first movie of Laxmikant Pyarelal as independent music directors. And what an amazing debut they had !
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When we talk about old evergreen classics, most of the the time we are talking about the creations of big name music directors who have become legends by now. But there are quite a few evergreen classic songs that are the creations of less known music directors.
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Chanda ki chaandni ka jaadoo
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This is a song that I have listened to for the first time only today. I am not surprised because by now I have got used to it.
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Manmohan man mein ho tumhi
Posted on: February 6, 2009
This movie called “Kaise Kahoon” (1964) is quite unknown to most people. But the music of this movie is quite remarkable . Music director of this movie was S D Burman and he teamed up with lyricist Shakeel Badayuni in this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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