Archive for September 2009
“Rakhwaala” (1971) was a movie starring Dharmendra and Leena Chandawarkar. This movie has been forgotten by now, but it was a decent movie with great music.
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This movie “Meri Bhaabhi” (1969) is an obscure movie despite boasting of names like Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rehman. This tear jerker movie was obviously a failure at the box office when it was released.
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Bhanwra badaa nadaan hai
Posted on: September 10, 2009
“Saahib Bibi aur Ghulaam” (1962) was a landmark movie in Bollywood. It was a musical blockbuster too.
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This song as well as its movie is as obscure as a movie and a movie can get. “Flat no. 9” (1961) is the name of the movie.This movie is obviously a C grade movie which had Ashok Kumar, Saeeda Khan, Jagdish Sethi (?),Dinesh Kumar Tiwari (?),Helen etc in its cast.
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It is difficult to associate Guru Dutt with anything but a sad song, that too in a movie like “Pyyasa”. But it is a fact that he does not just sing melancholic songs in this movie. He sings romantic songs as well, difficult though it may be to believe.
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Here is a song from a lesser known movie called “Ek Paheli” (1971).
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I had heard this song in passing in the past, without paying much attention, and without being aware which movie this song is from. This time I listened to (and watched) this song in the right earnest, and I was suitably impressed.
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In Bollywood movies, poor hero ( during his childhood) typically would earn his livelihood by acting as a shoeshine boy, whereas his mother would sit on a singer machine and sew clothes to earn her livelihood.
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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Yesterday I posted a wonderful song from Devdas (1955) which I had heard many a times, though without realising that it was a song from this movie. Here is another song from this movie that I never heard in my life till today !
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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