Archive for April 2009
As sad songs go, this song must rank among the saddest and most poignant. Sahir Ludhianvi’s lyrics sum up the situation with the force of a well oiled sledge hammer. Hemant Kumar’s voice conveys tha pain of the protagonist so well that listeners cannot help but be moved even today, more than six decades later.
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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Dil ki baaten dil hi jaane
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Some songs become so popular that we have movie titles of future movies formed out of these songs. For instance, movies like “Aashiq hoon bahaaron ka”. “dilwaale dulhaniya le jayenge” are two movies whose titles were clearly inspired from popular songs of “Aashiq” and “Chor machaaye shor” respectively.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was perhaps the last time a Dev Anand movie turned out to be very successful at box office, though “Des Pardes” (1978) was also successful.
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Ik tera sundar mukhda
Posted on: April 20, 2009
I was aware of a movie called “Bhai bhai” released in 1940s, but I never knew that a movie of the same name was made in 1970 too. This 1970 movie must have done really poorly at the box office to be so unknown.
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Aao huzoor tumko
Posted on: April 20, 2009
“Kismat” had some superb music composed by O P Nayyar. Though Rafi was not there to sing ( he had his differences with O P Nayyar those days) and Mahendra Kapoor had done a decent job filling in for him. And O P Nayyar had used the voice of Shamshad Begum for a song too.
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In 1950s and 1960s, most leading actors stuck to the some particualar playback singers, whose voices, they thought suited them. Thus we had Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, Rafi singing for Shammi Kapoor etc.
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One two three four
Posted on: April 20, 2009
Though most Bollywood songs in 1950s were based on desi music ( classical and folk music), western music were also being introduced those days. C Ramchandra was one of the main pioneers who introduced western music in Bollywood. Another such pioneer was N Dutta.
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Bahaaren phir bhi aayengin
Posted on: April 20, 2009
It is not uncommon to have great songs coming out of movies whose names are not known to many people.
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Hawaaon pe likh do hawaaon ke naam
Posted on: April 19, 2009
Wow! What an amazing song ! I have listened to this song in the past, but only in passing and without paying much attention. Now that I have listened to it and watched the picturisation, I am just floored.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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