Archive for October 2010
This song can be put into several categories. This song narrowly misses from becoming a “movie opening song”. The song begins immediately after the credits disappear from the screen. Guru Dutt and Mala Sinha are just married and it is their suhaag raat. But Guru Dutt, instead of taking interest in his newly wedded bride, complains that he cannot get sleep because of her.
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There are a few songs which become popular right from the time they are released and go on to become timeless classics. But most songs remain popular only for some time and after that they are forgotten, perhaps for all time to come.
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I have talked about my resolution to try and post all Sajjad Hussain songs that are available. I have come to realise by now that Sajjad Hussain composed songs in 17 movies (and not 14, as popularly believed).
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Tujhe dil ki baat bataa doon
Posted on: October 7, 2010
“Picnic” was a very popular word in India in 1960s and 1970s. People, who could afford it used to go to some far off places during weekend or holidays to relax. They would play some games there, have their meals their and then they would come back. This in short was what was a picnic.
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One of the category of songs that are found quite commonly in Hindi movies is what I call “Chhaayaageet” songs. These are romantic songs where words like “chaand”, “raat etc. are used quite generously. The best time to listen to such songs are at late night when the world in asleep and one can see the moom in the sky in its full glory.
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Dol rahi hai naiyya
Posted on: October 7, 2010
S D Burman made his debut as a music director in Hindi movies in 1946. That year, two of his movies were released. They were “Aath Din” and “Shikari”.
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Pahle na samjhaa pyaar thaa
Posted on: October 7, 2010
In this blog, I post songs mainly from the golden era of Hindi movie music spanning across three decades from 1950s to 1970s. The decades just prior to 1950s, viz 1940s and 1930s were where the decks were cleared for the golden era to commence Listening to songs from these two pioneering decades is an enriching experience as it helps us go down memory lane by more than six to seven decades back to an era when I was not born and even my parents were small kids at that time.
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Ham tumhen chaahte hain aise
Posted on: October 6, 2010
During 1970s, Amitabh Bachchan had taken over the crown of the number one male actor of the decade. The one actor, who looked like a challenger was Vinod Khanna, but Vinod Khanna’s mind was not into his career. He became a devotee of Achaarya Rajneesh (that is how he was then known, before he began to call himself “Osho”). As a result, he ended up nowhere. He neither got the spiritual nirvaana from his spiritual guru nor could he devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career. If he could only devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career, he could have been number one, at least briefly, and who knows, may be for even longer durations.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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