Archive for April 2009
Poochhe jo koi mujhse
Posted on: April 16, 2009
In Bollywood movies, hero is often seen teasing the girl and get away with it. It does not happen that way in real life. In reality, there are laws which prohibit “eve” teasing as it is called in India.
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Phoolon ke rang se
Posted on: April 16, 2009
One reason why many old songs ( 1970s and earlier) are popular is of course to do with nice music in these songs. Moreover, the music directors ( there were many outstanding music directors at that time) recognised the value of lyrics. And they would wait for lyricists to write their songs.
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Khushi ki wo raat aa gayi
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have not posted a Mukesh song for quite a while. Here is a Mukesh song from “Dharti Kahe Pukaar ke” (1969).
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Mera qaraar le jaa
Posted on: April 16, 2009
I have posted two songs from “Aashiana”(1952) in ther past. One was a Lata song ( mere piya se koi jaake) and other was a Talat Mahmood song (main paagal mera manwaa paagal). Both these songs are superb memorable songs.
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Chaand se parda kijiye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
This movie “Aao Pyaar Karen” (1994) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had a couple of nice songs composed by debutant music director Aadesh Srivastava.
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Jab deep jale aana
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Chitchor” was a Rajshree productions movie that introduced Amol Palekar, Zareena Wahab and Vijayendra Ghatge to Bollywood. Yesudas, who had sung a few songs for Salil Chowdhary made his mark as a playback singer in Bollywood with this movie.
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Sajna hai mujhe sajna ke liye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Saudagar” (1973) was the debut movie for Ravindra Jain as a music director. He wrote the lyrics too. This was a Rajshree productions movie where they were known to sign up newcomers. And for this movie they had signed by Amitabh Bachchan ! It is strange to see Amitabh Bachchan playing a villager ( far cry from his action roles) wearing striped lungi throughout the movie.
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Main paagal mera manwaa paagal
Posted on: April 15, 2009
Most of Madan Mohan movies were made by struggling movie makers with lesser known actors. In some cases, Madan Mohan worked with bigger names too, but that was either before these people actually became stars ( viz Amitabh Bachchan in “Parwana”) or after they had run their courses ( viz Dev Anand in “Sahib Bahadur”). The first movie where Madan Mohan got to work with big name actors was in “Madhosh” (1952) which had Raj Kapoor and Nargis. Unfortunately this movie did not do well at the box office.
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Madan Mohan, who made his debut as a music director in 1950, began to deliver classy songs right from his debut movie viz “Ankhen”. His subsequent movie, viz “Madhosh” saw Madan Mohan create a remarkable song in the voice of Talat Mahmood.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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