Archive for April 2009
Ek ladki ko dekha to aisa lagaa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
By late 1980s, R D Burman was struggling to get assignments, because Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik kind of music had invaded the Bollywood music scene. And R D Burman died a rather unsung death in 1991, as limelight had deserted him by that time.
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Aankhon mein kyaa ji
Posted on: April 25, 2009
There was one thing common between O P Nayyar and S D Burman in 1950s. Both did not work with Lata and used the voice of Asha Bhonsle instead. And that helped Asha Bhonsle’s career no end.
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Jaadu bhare nainon mein
Posted on: April 25, 2009
Many of the songs that I post in this blog may be chronologically old, but they are new for me since I have been discovering them only just now. And I find them such refreshing songs to listen to, and watch to. It is as if one magically gets teleported to that era and gets an experience of living in that era for a few minutes. And it is a wonderful experience.
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Wow! What a song ! And what Picturisation ! This song must go down as one of the great fun songs of all time.
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Toote naa dil toote naa
Posted on: April 25, 2009
“Andaaz” (1949) has over a dozen songs. Mukesh is the male playback singer who sings for Dilip Kumar in this movie. Almost all these songs are apparently piano songs.
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Patta patta boota boota
Posted on: April 24, 2009
How many people are aware of a movie called “Ek Nazar” ? People may not be aware of such a movie, but there were in fact not one but two movies of such a name. One was released in 1957 and it had a few nice Talat Mahmood songs under the music direction of Ravi. Then there was another movie of this name in 1972, and it too had a nice song, which is the song under discussion here.
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Aaj main jawaan ho gayi hoon
Posted on: April 24, 2009
“Main Sundar Hoon”(1971) is not a movie that too many people may remember now. But this movie had some amazingly popular songs which were just the songs to appeal to youngsters.
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Na ye zameen thi na aasmaan tha
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I am a big fan of Ravi, the underestimated music director of the golden era of Bollywood movie music. He was an extremely prolific music director who began his career in 1950s and worked upto 1990. And he has left us countless great songs, many of them timeless classics. In fact, most iconic songs of Bollywood have been his creations.
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sheeshe se pi ya paimaane se pi
Posted on: April 24, 2009
“Phool Aur Patthar” (1966) was the movie that gave Dharmendra his “He-Man” image, and made him the star that he was known as for much of his career, if I remember correctly.Or, am I confusing this movie with “Shola aur Shabnam” ?
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O jaane waale
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I had posted the famous song called “mere piya gaye rangoon” sometime back in this blog. This song is from “Patanga” (1949).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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