Archive for November 2009
Suno ji suno hamaari bhi suno
Posted on: November 19, 2009
Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand were the three biggest male stars of Bollywood movies for nearly two decades. Considering that song and dance plays such important roles in Bollywood movies, including the movies in which these actors acted, it is interesting to note that Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand successfully dodged dancing in their movies.
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Ham aur tum aur ye samaa
Posted on: November 19, 2009
I am aware of two movies called “College Girl”. One was a movie of early 1960s featuring Shammi Kapoor. The other was a movie of late 1970s featuring Sachin. Though both these movies are forgotten, both of them had some nice songs in them.
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In Shammi Kapoor movies, it is Shammi Kapoor who normally gives ladies a hard time, but in this song, it is Shammi Kapoor who finds himself at the receiving end. This is a swimming pool song, and Shammi Kapoor finds himself inside the pool, and he is seen trying to stay afloat.
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Nikle the kahaan jaane ke liye
Posted on: November 18, 2009
I have seen many mujra songs in Bollywood movies, and this song is a mujra song, but with a difference. Mujra songs tend to be depressing because the female dancer performing mujra tends to be wallowing in self pity. But this song is different.
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Husnlal Bhagatram were perhaps the first music directors who formed a team and composed music by their combined names. Later on, their lead was taken by Shankar Jaikishan, and then by Kalyanji Anandji, Laxmikant Pyarelal etc. Incidentally, Bhagatram’s brother, called Pt Amarnath, was a music director too.
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“Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja, the hit pair of “Haathi Mere Saathi”. This movie, like most Rajesh Khanna movies, was a musical blockbuster, where almost all songs went on to become very popular.
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The other day I posted a song from a movie called “Chaand aur Suraj”. I thought that this song was from the same movie. But no, this movie is different. It is called “Suraj aur Chandaa” (1973),
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Sajanwaa bairi ho gaye hamaar
Posted on: November 16, 2009
For long, I had posted just one song from “Teesri Kasam” (1966). Then I realised that all the songs of this movie are outstanding and I needed to post all of them.
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Tumhe dil se chaahaa
Posted on: November 15, 2009
When I decide to post a song, most of my time is taken to get the lyrics right. There are some people who inform me that one can get lyrics of the songs on internet. Like most well meaning (and uninformed and unsolicited) advises, this information is not backed by facts.
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In old Bollywood movies, most leading actors would be shown seated on a grand piano and singing a song. Now it is not possible to sing and play a grand piano simultaneously, but when you are lip syncingto some one else’s voice and music is someone else’s creation, as are the lyrics,then nothing is impossible in Bollywood.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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