Archive for September 2010
Ab do dilon ki mushqil
Posted on: September 2, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Pooja Ke Phool” (1964). I have noticed that this movie has some wonderful songs in it. So far I have posted two songs from this movie which were sung by Lata. These songs are easily among the best songs that the Lata-Madan Mohan combination gave us in their long association.
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Kishore Kumar is today known as one of the legendary singers of Hindi movies. But that is not how he was known till late 1960s. Till then, he was a middling actor-singer in Hindi movies who would act in movies and sing for himself. In addition, he would sing songs mainly for Dev Anand, courtesy his mentor S D Burman.
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Taqdeer ka shiqwaa kaun kare
Posted on: September 2, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952). Now I have found that it was a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kausal, Asha Mathur etc.
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Tadap ye din raat ki
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
One of the things I set out to do a few years ago was to watch, once more, many of the movies that I had seen as a young boy.
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Daanton taley dabaa kar honth
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
Till 1974-75, when Rajesh Khanna’s movies began losing their appeal (for me at least), I was happy to watch any Rajesh movie for him alone. There was almost always at least one good song to enjoy in the movie. And very often more than one.
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Ye dil hai muhabbat ka pyaasaa
Posted on: September 1, 2010
I have mentioned it in the past that I grew up in Ranchi, which was then a city in Bihar and it is now the capital city of the state of Jharkhand. Those were the days when one judged the size of a place by the number of movie halls in it. If the place had 100 plus movie halls then it was a metropolitan city. If the place had 30 plus movie halls then it was a A class city etc.
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Lata-Madan Mohan songs are always a delight to listen to.”Pooja Ke Phool” (1964) has several such songs in it. I have already posted one such song from this movie.
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Dil matwaalaa laakh sambhaalaa
Posted on: September 1, 2010
I think I am familiar with most movies starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis, but even I was stumped when I came across this movie called “Bewafaa” (1952). This movie is not all that well known, which means that this movie did not do all that well.That way, this movie suffered the same fate as “Aashinaa”, another Raj Kapoor-Nargis starrer.
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Koi nahin mera iss duniyaa mein
Posted on: September 1, 2010
When one looks at songs that end up as timeless songs, sad songs will form a good proportion of these songs. Lyrics of these songs contribute the most in making these songs memorable.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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