Archive for 2010
Sarkaay lyo khatiya jaada lage
Posted on: February 21, 2010
Bollywood music touched its nadir in 1980s when “Disco” music took over the music scene. The fact that Bappi Lahiri and Mithun da were the biggest beneficiary of that era says it all. Bappi Lahiri (though capable of creating great music) preferred to create forgettable music. Mithun da indulded in so called disco “densing”, which, if you watched closely, bore little resemblence to actual “densing”. “Densing”, incidentally was how Mithun da pronounced “dancing”.
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When we look back at the past, we tend to wear rosy glasses and look back into the past only selectively. The past is not always all that glorious, as we tend to believe.
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“Muqaddar Ka Sikandar” (1978) was one movie which was a very popular movie of its time. It was one of the biggest hits of Amitabh Bachchan post “Sholay” and its music was ofcourse one of the biggest attractions.
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Kab tak na dogi dil
Posted on: February 18, 2010
“Kahaani Kismat Ki” (1973) had some very interesting songs in it with cute lyrics. I have posted two such songs already. Here is the third song from this movie.
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Love songs in Bollywood movies have often used “Chaand” to good effect. In such songs, “Chaand” symbolised beauty, what with female face being compared with “Chaand” (moon) and chaandni (moonlight) being used as a romantic backdrop for some memorable songs.
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I have posted a wonderful song from “Makkhichoos” (1956) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aao aao kahaani suno
Posted on: February 17, 2010
Not much is known about the movie “Mr Sampat” (1952) except that this movie was produced in South India and it was directed by S S Vasan. Motilal and Pardmini played lead roles in this movie.
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Modern day TV watchers are familiar with Ekta Kapoor’s (Jeetendra’s daughter) TV serials. No, I am not talking about their content (which is trashy in any case) but about their titles. All of these titles have to start with “K”. Even where there is no scope for the letter “K” in the beginning of the title, this letter is somehow made to appear in the beginning of the title. If she decides to make a serial on “Atul’s blog”, then it would be called “Kahaani Atul’s blog ki” or ” Kyunki Atul ka bhi ek blog hai”.
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“Sheesham” (1952) is one of the earliest movies for which Roshan composed music. I have posted an interesting comedy song from this movie that was sung by Kishore Kumar. Here is another song from this movie. This song is sung by Mukesh and it is a sentimental song by contrast.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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