Archive for July 2010
Pardesiyon se na ankhiyaan milaanaa
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I think I need to create another artificial category of songs, viz. “songs that I thought were already posted but I was wrong” category.
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Main soyaa ankhiyaan meenche
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I am posting the songs of “Phaagun” (1958) these days. Here is another song from this movie.
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Most of the songs that I post in this blog are from 1970s and earlier. After 1980s, I more or less lost track of Bollywood movies and its music. And that more or less coincided with deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs as well.
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Sajna mera dil tera dil gayaa mil
Posted on: July 6, 2010
In Bollywood movies, the main theme of the story is love between the lead actors. One variant of this theme in 1960s was love affair between a doctor and a nurse. “Dil Apna Aur Preet Paraayi” (1960) is a movie on this theme that readily comes to mind. Here Meena Kumari, the nusre has a one sided crush on Raj Kumar, the doctor.This movie and this theme must have appealed to the movie makers, because a few more movies like this followed in its wake.
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Piyaa piyaa naa laage moraa jiyaa
Posted on: July 6, 2010
The storyline of “Phagun” (1958) was clearly inspired from “Naagin” (1954). In “Naagin”(1954), the heroine finds the music of “been” irrestible, whereas in “Phaagun”, hero’s flute has a similar effect on the heroine. In “Naagin”, we had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles, whereas in “Phagun”, we had Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala playing the same roles.
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Main joru ka ghulaam banke rahoongaa
Posted on: July 5, 2010
I have posted a song from “Joru Ka Ghulaam” (1972) where Rajesh Khanna was the lead actor. Another movie of the same name was released in 2000, and guess who was the lead actor in this movie ? It was Twinkle Khanna, daughter of our beloved Kaka.
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Ek samay par do barsaaten
Posted on: July 5, 2010
In Bollywood movies, most songs are lip synced on screen by actors. But there are some songs that are played on the background and the actors on the screen are not required to lip sync these songs. I have posted quite a few songs of this nature. All these days, I failed to realise that I should categorise these songs as background songs.
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How many of us have heard of this movie called “Jhoola” ? I had not, and I guessed that a movie by this name must be from early 1950s, since this title rhymed with titles of those days, viz “Mela”, “Jhamelaa” etc.
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I sincerely believe that parents should take care of their kids and they should not deprive them of their basic requirements. And what did a kid like me want in 1972 as his basic requirement ? I badly wanted to see “Seeta Aur Geeta” (1972). The songs of this movie had such a pied piper like effect that everyone was attracted towards the movie halls screening this movie. My elders too agreed to take me to watch this movie and I was so happy with the prospect of being able to watch the movie and to have the best moment of my life till then.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
Aayiye aapko main apne bangley ki sair karaaun
Posted by: Atul on: July 5, 2010
There was a time when India had only one TV channel and that used to telecast boring programmes and news. Now we have countless channels including several news channels. These news channels are often short of ideas and they try to create news out of thin air and call that as “breaking news”. Typically the reporter of the channel will go to a certain site and try to describe a breaking news item, and he will struggle to find things to say.
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