Archive for May 2010
The title of this movie called “Ek Phool Chaar Kaante” (1960) looks traditional enough, but I am only just discovering that the music of this movie was anything but the usual stuff.
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Here is a less known song from an obscure movie called “Panchaayat” (1958). This movie had Raj Kumar and Shyama in lead roles.
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tirchhi nazar se yoon naa dekh
Posted on: May 27, 2010
Most Bollywood songs only involve desi actors and foreigners are sadly left out. Considering that there is so much interest about Bollywood movies among non desis too, it is time they too should be made to feel at home in these movies. Gori girls in Bollywood movies too have the right to be teased and made passes at.
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Ban ke suhaagan rahi abhaagan
Posted on: May 27, 2010
I was not aware about this movie called “Aadhi Raat” (1950). This movie had Ashok Kumar, Nargis, Jeewan, Kuldip Kaur etc in it. And this movie had some decent songs in it too.
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Lagaa kar dil pareshaan hain
Posted on: May 27, 2010
In the past, I had posted a song from a little known movie called “Nayaa Ghar” (1953). At that time I was given farmaish for two more songs of this movie. But those songs were as elusive as the movie was obscure.
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In this blog, I post songs that I categorise into different categories. Among them, there is one artificial category of songs (not yet formalised). These are songs that were very popular in its days during my formative years. I enjoyed these songs a lot without having any clues about their details. After that these songs would be forgotten with time. After a passage of three decades or more, I would stumble upon them one again. And this time, I would get to know these songs better. As far as I and several followers of this blog in my age group are concerned, these songs were immortal songs. As least they will remain so in our psyche.
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Here is another song that people listen and enjoy a lot without being aware of its details. All these days I only knew what I could hear. In other words, I only knew that this was a duet sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar.
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After posting an untypical Madan Mohan song, here is a song that bears the hallmark of a typical Madan Mohan song. It is a ghazal, it is sung by Lata, and it is picturised on Meena Kumari !
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Tiki riki tiki riki taakuri
Posted on: May 25, 2010
One normally associates Ghazals and serious songs with Madan Mohan, but that does not mean that Madan Mohan could not create other kinds of songs, including light hearted songs. One certainly does not associate a Helen-Asha Bhonsle party song with Madan Mohan, but here is one such song.
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I have mentioned in an earlier post that song planning in Bollywood movies of the past was like familiy planning of the past, viz there used do be nearly a dozen or so issues in either case.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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