Archive for August 2009
I just realised that I had not posted a Mukesh song in this blog for some time. So here is a Mukesh song. And what a song !
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Chaand kabhi thaa baahon mein
Posted on: August 23, 2009
Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie with some obscure names.
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Saaz e dil pe koyi geet gaa
Posted on: August 23, 2009
Vishwajeet tended to get backed by fantastic music (and singing) of Hemant Kumar in his movies. In some of his other movies, he had other music directors and then Rafi would do playback singing for Vishwajeet.
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Kahe jhoom jhoom raat ye suhaani
Posted on: August 23, 2009
“Love Marriage” (1959) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Mala Sinha. I have no idea how the movie fared at the box office, but the music of the movie is absolutely top class.
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Chup chup chup hone laga kuchh
Posted on: August 23, 2009
“Insaaniyat”(1955) was a movie that had both Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand in it for the first and last time. This mega movie of 1955 also had wonderful music by C Ramchandra.
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“Niraala”(1950) is a movie with Dev Anand and Madhubala, and the story appears an adorable sugar coated love story. I judge a movie by its songs and the songs of this movie are absolutely lovely.
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“Paakeezah” (1971) which was the last movie of Meena Kumari was full of some beautiful songs. I as a pre teen disliked those retro songs at that time, but as time has passed, I find myself warming up to these songs. Indeed, these songs have grown sweeter and more melodious with passage of time.
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Recently I had posted a bicycle song in which I was much mystified about the identity of the person who was pedalling away with a pretty young thing seated on the front bar.
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O mere sajnaa aaja re aajaa
Posted on: August 22, 2009
If Nargis was “Mother India”, then who was “Miss India” ? Few people may be aware of it, but both these movies were released in the same year viz 1957. “Mother India” went on to become a timeless classic, whereas “Miss India” was forgotten. And interestingly, Nargis herself was in the lead role of “Miss India” too.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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