Archive for March 2009
Jaa jaa re chanda jaa re
Posted on: March 26, 2009
The movie “Private Secretary” (1962) is not one that is known to too many people. Prem Dhawan was the lyricist and this movie had someone called Dilip Dholakiya as the music director.
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Here is a typical Rafi song sung in Shammi style, except that this song was picturised on Joy Mukherjee, and he was the closest to Shammi Kapoor in such roles.
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In early 1950s, when Bollywood music was breaking off from the influence of Indian classical music, many other kinds of music were influencing Bollywwod music scene. And one such kind of music was western music.
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Boojh mera kyaa naam re
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Here is a cute song from “CID” (1956). This movie had extremely popular songs composed by O P Nayyar.
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Chanda mama door ke
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Translation and comments on the lyrics have been provided by Sudhir
“Vachan” was Ravi’s debut movie as a music director. I have said it that Ravi was a music director who created a large number of iconic songs, which have become immortal. And Ravi began proving that right from his debut movie.
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Adaa se jhoomte huye
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Chitragupta Srivastava, better known as Chitragupta, made his debut as a music director in 1946. He had to wait for 6 years to deliver his first hit song.
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O meri chammakchallo
Posted on: March 25, 2009
When I was a young kid, I was made to believe that the hero-heroine would always be seen singing their love songs while running around trees. I am not very sure because I have not seen too many such songs.
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Armaan thha hamen jinka
Posted on: March 25, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Aulaad” (1968) already. This movie had some nice songs that were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri and composed by Chitragupta.
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Jaa re jaa re ud jaa re panchchi
Posted on: March 25, 2009
When I read the title of the song, I thought it must be a clone of the “chal ud ja re panchi” song. And I was not expecting much.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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