Archive for October 2010
“Parwarish” (1977) was a big multi starrer movie, in the sense that it had Amitabh Bachchan and Vinod Khanna, the two biggest stars of the time,together in it.
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Ye chaar din bahaar ke
Posted on: October 6, 2010
Few people have heard of this movie called “Rukhsaanaa” (1955). It is interesting to note that this movie had actors like Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari, Shammi Kapoor and Kumkum in it.
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“Pehli Jhalak” (1954) is a musical blockbuster. I have posted as many as four songs from this movie, but that is not enough. I need to discuss the remaining songs from this movie too.
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I have been posting the songs of “Magroor” (1950) in this blog. There are eight songs in this movie and I have so far discussed six of them. Here is the seventh song from this movie.
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I have posted as many as seven songs from “Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964) and one may be excused for assuming that there may not be any more songs left to be posted from this movie. But then one would underestimate the calibre of music directors of those era, if one made such an assumption.
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Jo tum todo piyaa
Posted on: October 5, 2010
In case of most Hindi songs, lyrics of the song are written by the lyricist hired for this specific purpose. But there are occasions when the lyrics are already available and they are written by persons who lived much before Hindi movies came into existence.
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Kisi ne apna banaa ke mujhko
Posted on: October 5, 2010
Though I have discussed over three thousands songs in this blog already, there are still a large number of great songs that are yet to be discussed. The long list of readers’ farmaish gives us a good indication of just how many great songs are yet to be covered. There are so many great songs still to be discussed, but there is only so much time in a day, that one can devote to their discussion.
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Ghadi ghadi dil bhar aaye
Posted on: October 5, 2010
Look what song I have discovered today ! Here is a song from an old and obscure movie called “Bade Bhaiyya” (1951). It appears a B grade movie starring Suresh, Nirupa Roy, Agha and Yaaqoob.
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There are some music directors who have composed throusands of songs and discussing most of their songs will take ages. But there are some music directors who have composed much less number of songs and it should be possible for me to post most of their compositions if I put my mind to it.
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