Archive for May 2009
Here is this song from a rather recent vintage. This is one of the few songs from 1990s that I found hummable. Of course, I was not aware which movie this song was from.
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Jaate ho to jaao par itna sun lo
Posted on: May 15, 2009
“Desh Premi” (1982) was one movie that I actually liked rather whole heartedly, but it appears that I was once again in the minority. While Manmohan Desai movies that I disliked turned out to be big hits, this movie was regarded as a damp squib at the box office.
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I continue to be more and more amazed at the qulaity of music director Ganesh’s music. He could create amazingly popular songs even when he created these songs for C grade movies.
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There were quite a few well known songs in “Bambai ka Babu” (1960) and I have posted several songs from this movie already.
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Duniya ke saath chal pyaare
Posted on: May 15, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Pocketmaar” (1956). Madan Mohan was the music director of this movie. But the music is more reminscent of O P Nayyar.
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Ishq mein jo kuchh naa honaa thhaa
Posted on: May 15, 2009
C Ramchandra was one of the first music directors to make the most of Lata’s voice. In fact, C Ramchandra’s association with Lata was somewhat similar to O P Nayyar’s association with Asha in more ways than one. It was C Ramchandra who played an important role in making Lata the singer that she became in 1950s.
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Tu mere saamne main tere saamne
Posted on: May 14, 2009
For those interested in cricket in general and IPL in particular, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla are the owners of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team. They came together in 2008 to buy this floundering team.
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In 1970s, when Amitabh Bachchan ruled the roost, I found it perplexing that Amitabh Bachchan movies with silly plots did good business whereas movies which were truly good in my judgement failed at the box office. To my mind, movies like “The Great Gambler”, and “Deshpremi” weere better movies than say “Muqaddar ka Sikandar” and “Suhaag”, but that is not what the public thought at that time.
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I have heard this song many a times without knowing which movie this song was from. I was under the impression that this song was from some movie of 1960s.
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Kisi patthar ki moorat se
Posted on: May 14, 2009
This is a piano song cum party song in the sense that this song is sung by Sunil Dutt seated on a piano in a party.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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