Archive for July 2010
This is a song that I was not aware of. I became aware of this song thanks to a farmaish by Raja.
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Here is a nice song from a lesser known movie. This movie is “Mulzim” (1963) and it had Pradeep Kumar and Shakila in lead roles.
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Long ago, when I was a school kid, I was an avid radio listener. One of the radio programmes that I regularly listened to was “Vishesh Jaimala” broadcast on saturday evening (and repeated on sunday afternoon). This programme was presented by a celebrity from Bollywood, but sometimes celebrities from other fields were also invited to present the programme.
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Ae dile aawaaraa chal
Posted on: July 29, 2010
Here is a song from “Dr Vidya” (1962). Only the audio of this song is available and so I am unable to find out about its picturisation.
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Yoon zindagi ke raaste
Posted on: July 29, 2010
One of the less common category of songs is what I call “Radio” songs. These are the songs that come out of Radio and people are shown listening to the song in front of their radios. And the hero/ heroine/ other actor is shown singing the song live in the radio station.
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Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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Jaa jaa re jaa saajnaa
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies, “Mujra” songs is one of a standard category of songs. Most people, including me, discuss such songs as a matter of course, without thinking much about this matter. But the songs of “Adalat” (1958), which are all “Mujra” songs force me to think about it.
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Ae dil tujhe qasam hai
Posted on: July 29, 2010
I have not posted a song featuring Madhubala for quite song time now. Here is one such song from her earlier days.
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I have listened to this song many a times and enjoyed listening to it. But I was not aware of the details of the song except that the song was sung by Rafi.
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Most of the stories in Bollywood movies are derived from the Indian traditions. And in Indian tradition, though a married woman is called “ardhaanigini” (significant half- let us say), but on the other hand, she is required to treat her husband as a superior being, her god, and her place is supposed to be at his feet.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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