Archive for February 2009
Bainya na dharo balma
Posted on: February 21, 2009
“Dastak” was far ahead of its time in 1970 when it was released. Forget 1970, the movie is ahead of its time even if it was released in 2009.
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There are different singers who have different effects on their listeners.
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Duniya rang rangeeli baba
Posted on: February 21, 2009
In the series of K L Saigal songs that I am posting everyday, today I post a song sung by three singers.
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Chaand ke paas jo sitaara hai
Posted on: February 20, 2009
Just a few days back, I had commented that Bollywood movie songs containing the word “Chaand” which were quite frequent till 1960 had become conspicuous by their absence in the later decades.
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Parbat ke is paar
Posted on: February 20, 2009
“Sargam” (1979), which was a remake of a Telugu movie, was the movie where Jaya Prada made her debut in Bollywood movies.
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Tumse hi ghar ghar kahlaayaa
Posted on: February 20, 2009
Mukesh was a specialist in singing “dard bhare gaane” ( songs full of pain and pathos). I have not posted such a Mukesh song for quite some time. So here I post one such song.
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I use the word “musical blockbuster” quite regularly for movies that have several nice songs. And there have been quite a few such movies over the deacades.
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Neend na mujhko aaye
Posted on: February 20, 2009
“Post Office Box 999”- This was the title of a 1958 movie. And this movie had some superb songs.
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These days, I am posting a K L Saigal song as the first song of the day every day. In this series, here is a K L Saigal song from “Street Singer” (1938).
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During 1970s, when I would try to tune radio Ceylon on wednesday night between 8 PM to 9 PM, tuning to the desired station was not as easy as it is for TV stations. There were so many radio stations on the same 25 metre band and getting a clear reception of Radio Ceylon, while avoiding voices of Voice of America, BBC etc was quite an art.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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