Archive for August 2010
I have posted several songs from “Aan” (1952) and I thought I had posted this one too, but when I was looking at the list of old farmaishes, I found that I had yet to post this song.
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Dole hriday ki naiyya
Posted on: August 17, 2010
Here is a song from the very early days of Hindi talkies, viz 1937, only 6 years after Indian movies had started talking. The movie is “Vidyapati” (1937)
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Jaan pehchaan ho jeenaa aasaan ho
Posted on: August 16, 2010
This post is written by Greta (Memsaab) a regular visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie songs
I am very honored indeed to have been asked by Atul to write about this song from the film “Gumnaam.” It is song number 2800 on this blog and I think he has chosen well in representing such a big number (although I am amazed that it’s not been put up here earlier!).
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Dil ham to haare tum kaho pyaare
Posted on: August 16, 2010
While looking for songs, recently I stumbled upon this song from “Ardhaangini” (1959). And as often happens with me, I sat up and took notice. How come this song is not better known. This is a gem of a song really.
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Jahaan jahaan khayaal jaataa hai
Posted on: August 16, 2010
Here is a party song from a movie called “Bade Sarkaar” (1957). This movie, from its cast does not appear an A grade movie, seeing that Agha and Sajjan are the lead actors in this movie.
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On 15 August, 1988, Indian TV audience were glued to their TVs to watch the telecast of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s address to the nation from Red Fort, Delhi. There was no question of people going for their remotes and watching any other TV programme for the simple reason that there was only one TV channel in India and that was the government owned Doordarshan. And TV remotes were not even an accessory with TVs sold in India those days.
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Taaqat watan ki hamse hai
Posted on: August 15, 2010
Today is 15th August 2010. It was on this day that India got her independence 63 years ago. On this day, all public places in India have national flags hoisted there by the heads of the organisations.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor of this blog
One of the biggest miracles of India has got to be its cultural diversity. A people with so many different languages, so many different customs, different religions still co-exist next to each other and are unified under one umbrella – the flag of India.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor and contributor of this blog
For all Indians born post-1947 or maybe a decade later, it is difficult to contemplate life in pre-independence times. We are now so used to being an independent nation that we do not always value what we have. What our freedom-fighters fought for.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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