Archive for February 2009
Saawan ke maheene mein
Posted on: February 4, 2009
Like most people, I too thought that “Sharaabi” was a movie of 1984 with Amiabh Bachchan and Jaya Prada in it and with the music of Bappi Lahiri.
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Madan Mohan always felt shortchanged by public and media since he never got the credit for his music that he richly deserved.
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Ye kisne geet chheda
Posted on: February 4, 2009
The movie “meri soorat teri aankhen” (1963) was full of some very nice songs. I have already posted two outstanding semi classical songs from this movie- sung by Rafi and Manna Dey respectively.
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O rabba khair
Posted on: February 3, 2009
I thought that I knew about all Rafi-Shammi Kapoor songs and there were hardly any more songs left for me to be discovered.
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Kisi ko phool mile kisi ko dhool
Posted on: February 3, 2009
I became aware of the movie “Do Dishaayen” (1982) while posting Yesuda’s Vishesh Jaimala programme’s transcript in another of my blogs. This movie is such an obscure movie that its songs were not available on internet in any form.
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Pyaar pe koyi bas to nahin hai
Posted on: February 3, 2009
Most movies that are remembered by future generations are those which are made by established film makers with established personnel. It is rare to find a movie made by novice filmakers with novice personnel hit the jackpot. Most of the time, such movies fail miserably, and quite deservedly too.
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Tum rooth ke mat jaana
Posted on: February 3, 2009
This is a lovely song in all respects. The movie is “Phagun” (1958 ) and the song is an O P Nayyar composition sung by Rafi and Asha Bhonsle. Qamar Jalalabadi is the lyricist.
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When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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It is a very long song, which is one second short of 10 minutes long. And the song is so nice to listen to that these 9:55 minutes pass in a trice. Initially Asha Bhonsle sings the song and towards the second half of the song, Kishore Kumar makes a cameo appearance.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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