Archive for February 2010
Ek mera dil ek unkaa dil
Posted on: February 12, 2010
I have posted a song from “Laajawaab” (1950) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aaja karle muqaablaa
Posted on: February 11, 2010
I have posted a couple of songs from “Detective” (1958) in the past. This was a suspense movie directed by Shakti Samanta. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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Aapne chheen liyaa dil
Posted on: February 11, 2010
When it comes to playback singing, especially female playback singing, Mangeshkar family of siblings rules.
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Ae pyaar teri duniyaa se ham
Posted on: February 9, 2010
There are a few great movies in 1950s whose songs were hugely popular in 1950s. One was “jhaanjhar” and other was “Jhamela”. The prints of these movies were lost in a fire and we no longer have any prints of these movies.
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Here is a laajaawaab song from a movie called, well, “Laajawaab”. This is a movie from 1950 which had Sohan, Rehaana, Ifteqar etc in lead roles.
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Ye raat phir na aayegi
Posted on: February 3, 2010
“Mahal” (1949) was one of the earliest movies of the suspense genre. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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“Laawaaris” (1981) was a movie of the time when Amitabh was at the zenith of his career when the only way for him was to go downhill. Those were the days when moviewatchers went to the movie to watch Amitabh Bachchan the superstar, not Amitabh Bachchan the actor. Amitabh Bachchan and his producers had started to rest on the laurels that he had won in the past years. It was expected that the same old tired storyline would continue to wrk in movie after movie. And so it proved too.
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I have been posting the songs of “Sargam” (1950) here these days. It is while posting these songs that I am discovering these songs for the first time. What wonderful songs these are ! And I am also surprised at the number of such songs. There are at least a dozen such songs, and all of them just mind boggling. And it is just as mind boggling to realise that this movie has been forgotten today.
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Yaad aayi aadhi raat ko
Posted on: February 1, 2010
“Kanhaiyya” (1959) is a movie that had some very nice songs in it. I have already posted two lovelly songs from this movie, viz “mujhe tumse kuchh bhi na chaahiye” and “ruk jaa o jaane waali ruk jaa”.
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Khayaalon mein tum ho
Posted on: February 1, 2010
Sajjad Hussain was a highly talented music director who enjoyed great reputation for his music among his peers. But his inter personal relationships left a lot to be desired, especially when it came to his relations with influential people. As a result, he got to work as a music director in very few movies and the number of songs that he composed add up to barely a hundred songs or so.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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