Archive for August 2009
Laage jab se nain laage
Posted on: August 7, 2009
“Daag” (1952) was a Mars and Movies Production. It was directed by Amiya Chaudhary. The movie had Dilip Kumar, Usha Kiran, Kanhaiyalal, Jawahar Kaul, Leela Misra, Krishnakant, Nimmi, Lalita Pawar, Chandrashekhar etc in it.
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“Aa gale lag jaa” (1973) is a movie starring Shashi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore. Like most songs of those days, this movie too boasted of some superb songs.
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S D Burman was not only an outstanding music director, he had a unique singing voice too which he utilised very fruitfully. He would sing sparingly, but the few songs that he sang all went on to become immortal.
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“Shabnam” (1964) was a movie where Mehmood was in lead role opposite Vyjyanti Mala. I have no idea how the movie fared, but the songs of this movie were outstanding, as I have discovered.
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I have posted several songs from “Anaadi” (1959) in this blog, but even I was not aware of this song. I have listened to this song for the first time just today, viz 50 years after this song was created.
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Last year, when it was the day of Rakshabandhan (Rakhi), I had posted “bhaiyya mere raakhi ke bandhan ko nibhaana”. One year has passed since, and today is Rakshabandhan again. Here is another immortal rakshabandhan song on this occasion.
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“Chhaaya” (1961) was a movie with lovely songs. I have posted a few songs from this movie already. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aaya tumpe dil aayaa kyaa karen
Posted on: August 5, 2009
In late 1950s, party songs based on western music and accompanied by a dance by a female had become a rage in Bollywood movies. “Mera Naam chin Chin Choo” from “Howrah Bridge” (1958) is a good example of such a song. This song was sung by Geeta Dutt and it was picturised on Helen.
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Soonaa hai mere dil ka jahaan
Posted on: August 5, 2009
C Ramchandra was one of the earlier pioneers of Bollywood movie music. He was one of the first music directors to make the most of the voice of Lata. In fact, Lata-C Ramchandra compositions are comparable to Lata-Madan mohan compositions, which came later.
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Dil tootnaa thaa dil toot gayaa
Posted on: August 5, 2009
“Dilruba” (1950) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Dev Anand and Rehana in lead roles.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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