Archive for August 2010
O sanam tere ho gaye ham
Posted on: August 3, 2010
Here is another popular song of its day which I thought I had already posted, but it is easy to get one’s facts wrong when there are so many nice songs to be posted. I have posted several songs of this genre as well as from this movie but this song was so far left out.
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Ye to kaho kaun ho tum kaun ho tum
Posted on: August 3, 2010
“Aashiq”(1962) was a movie starring Raj Kapoor, Padmini, Nanda etc. This movie, like amny movies of those days, was a musical blockbusters. The songs of this movie sound so sweet even today, some half a century after they were created.
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During the golden era of Hindi film music, movies, irrespective of their grading (A, B, C or whatever) tended to have A grade music. Not just the big name music directors, even lesser music directors were just as good as any. It is just that opportunities were few and far between and any many great talents were starved of opportunities.
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Ek thhaa raajaa
Posted on: August 3, 2010
Tiny tots always love to listen to stories. Telling them stories is always the best way to hold their attention. I recall that my kid, when she was young, would look at books with colourful pictures and asked me to read her stories at bed time. Seeing that I would be reluctant, she would tell me-“I am not asking for much, I want you to tell me only ten stories, that is all.”
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Naa jiyaa laage naa
Posted on: August 2, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Anand” (1970). In this movie, every song, not just the better known ones, are gems. And that is only to be expected seeing that Salil Chaudhary is the music director of this movie.
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I have posted several Lori (Lullaby) songs in this blog and I keep discovering new ones regularly. Here is another “new” lullaby that I was previously unaware of.
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I was under the impression that I had already posted this song from “Dekh Kabeera Royaa” (1957). So I was suprised to know (thanks to Lalitha’s farmaish for this song) that this song was not yet posted.
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Kahin door koyaliyaa gaaye re
Posted on: August 2, 2010
Here is another song that I first became aware of only a few hours ago.
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I just stumbled upon a song that is picturised on Suraiyya (then a superstar) and Madhubala (an emerging superstar). This song is from “Singaar” (1949) and it is a showdown song between the two.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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