Archive for March 2009
Jahaan teri ye nazar hai
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Kaalia” (1980) was one of the last Amitabh Bachchan movies in which R D Burman gave music. The music of this movie was quite popular.
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Have you come across pedantic sort of people, who, instead of listening to what you have to say, try to point out your grammatical mistakes ?
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Raahi thha main aawaara
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“Sahib Bahadur” (1977) was one of the forgettable movies of Dev Anand. Incidentally, it was a remake of another Dev Anand movie called “Afsar” (1950) which was presumably less forgettable.
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Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahaani
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“The Great Gambler” was an Amitabh Bachchan movie that was pronounced a damp squib when it was released in 1979. That came as a surprise to me because I found it a more watchable movie than many of the supposedly successful Amitabh Bachchan movies like “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Suhaag” etc.
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Morni baagaan maa
Posted on: March 20, 2009
Here is a song from a relatively newer movie by the standards of this blog. The movie is “Lamhe” (1991).
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I have been posting a K L Saigal song again after a break. And while listening to this song, I was once again exposed to the magic of K L saigal’s voice.
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Dil aaj shaayar hai
Posted on: March 19, 2009
I have mentioned earlier that Dev Anand outlived his stay as a leading man in Bollywood movies. as a result, many stories with great ideas flopped just because Dev Saab insisted on playing the hero in those movies. In fact, legend has it that Prakash Mehra had wanted to cast Dev Saab in “Zanjeer”. Dev Saab liked the role, but he wanted Prakash Mehra to sell him the story so that he could make this movie in his own way ( and hopefully add one more flop to his CV). Thankfully Prakash Mehra refused and the rest, as they say, is history with Amitabh Bachchan playing that role.
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Dev Anand was well past his sell by date as a hero in 1970s, but Dev Saab did not realise that and continued to act in one flop movie after another. In the process, many nice songs picturised on him suffered the same fate as the movie.
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Jaaneman tum kamaal karti ho
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In Bollywood movies, hero and heroines would traditionally meet in gardens and would be going round the trees, much like gorillas or chimps going through their mating rituals. Being more evolved than the apes, they would sing a duet while running around trees.
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Mohabbat hi na jo samjhe
Posted on: March 19, 2009
C Ramchandra had created some very fine songs in “Parchhain” (1952) and quite a few of these songs went on to become all time classics. I have posted one such Lata classic already (“katte hai dukh me ye din”). Here is a Talat Mahmood classic from this movie this time.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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