Archive for March 2009
Sapnon ki suhaani duniya ko
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Wow ! What an old and timeless classic. This song is from a 1953 movie called “Shikast” starring Dilip Kumar and Nalini Jaywant.
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Ek chameli ke mandve tale
Posted on: March 6, 2009
One is used to seeing Helen in a cabaret number dressed in “western” clothes. Also her role would typically be confined to that one song.
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Aise na mujhe tum dekho
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Dev Anand was a popular hero in 1950s and 1960s. But unfortunately he did not know when to call it a day. He continued to act one fourth his age long into 1980s with most of his movies falling flat at the box office.
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Zindagi hai kya
Posted on: March 6, 2009
“Satyakaam” (1969) is a movie that has long been forgotten though it was a movie that had received rave reviews during its time.
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Koyi chupke se aake
Posted on: March 6, 2009
“Anubhav”, a 1971 movie had a few nice songs. But few people were aware of them since the movie sank without a trace and took the songs with it.
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Jeewan been madhur na baaje
Posted on: March 6, 2009
Here is a K L Saigal song from the 1938 movie called “Street Singer”. It is not the most popular song from this movie, but still this song is a nice song to listen to.
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I have listened to this song lots of times. But I was not aware till now which movie this song is from, and who figured in the picturisation.
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Phir kahin koyi phool khila
Posted on: March 5, 2009
“Anubhav”, a by now forgotten “art” movie released in 1971 had some nice songs that have become forgotten as well. In fact, most of these songs did not become popular even in 1971. In fact, I never had the opportunity of listening to most of the songs from this movie except one.
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Mujhe raat din ye khayaal hai
Posted on: March 5, 2009
Iqbal Qureshi is one of the lesser known music directors whose contribution in making Bollywood music of 1950s and 1960s what it was ( the golden era) was second to none.
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Teri shehnaai boley
Posted on: March 5, 2009
I have posted quite a few songs from this movie but the theme/ title song of the movie was not one of them.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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