Archive for May 2009
Khushiyaan hi khushiyaan ho
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Dulhan wah jo piya man bhaaye” (1977) was a runaway hit of the year. In fact, this was a bigger hit than “Sholay” in the city where I was growing up.
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Mere deewanepan ki bhi dawaa nahin
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Mehboob ki Mehandi”(1971) is a lesser known movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar, but this movie is a musical blockbuster. I have posted a few songs from this movie, and each of these songs is a gem.
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Aayo kahaan se ghanshyaam
Posted on: May 12, 2009
“Buddha Mil Gaya” (1971) was a movie starring Navin Nischol who had become a hot property after “Saawan Bhadon”. Unfortunately that was the only hit movie he delivered as a hero and he was soon lost to oblivion.
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“Aankhen” (1968) begins with its its title/ theme song as the credits roll in. This song, sung by Rafi is quite a soul stirring song, one that rouse passions. Sahir Ludhianvi has written this song. His brief was to write a song on “Aankhen”, and he came up with this amazing song.
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Tere bina jiyaa jaaye naa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Gulzar and R D Burman came together for the first time in “Parichay” (1972) and even since, they worked together in many movies till “Masoom” (1983) and gave us some memorable songs. One such movie, where they collaborated together was “Ghar” (1978).
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Beeti na bitaayi rainaa
Posted on: May 11, 2009
All these days, I was under the impression that I had already posted this song in the blog. It was only yesterday that I noticed that I had posted another song from “Parichay” , and not this one.
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“Aankhen” appears to be a very popular title for a Bollywood movie. The debut movie of Madan Mohan was called “Aanken” and in the last one decade or so, we have had two movies by this name- one starring Govinda and another one starring Amitabh Bachchan.
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Tum agar saath dene ka waada karo
Posted on: May 11, 2009
Mahendra Kapoor was one singer who was a B R Chopra loyalist and he was the male playback singer of choice in all the movies made by B R Chopra’s banner.
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Upar gagan vishaal
Posted on: May 11, 2009
“upar gagan vishaal” is a song that launched Manna Dey’s career as a playback singer. This song from “Mashaal” (1950) was a bullock cart song. The picturisation shown Ashok Kumar riding a bullock cart and the bullock cart driver ( who is he ? ) singing this song.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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