Archive for 2010
Naache ghodaa naache ghodaa
Posted on: February 12, 2010
Till recently, scoring centuries of songs took me just a fortnight. But now I have slowed down considerably. My previous century (song number 2101 to 2200) took me one month. Even that was much faster than my present century. Yes, this song is song number 2300 for this song, and it has taken me a tortoise like two months and a half to reach from 2201 to 2300 !
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“Laal Patthar” (1971) is a movie that has been forgotten with time.
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“Nausherwan e Adil” (1957) was a blockbuster movie produced by G P Sippy. This movie had some superb songs in it.
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Ek mera dil ek unkaa dil
Posted on: February 12, 2010
I have posted a song from “Laajawaab” (1950) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Aaja karle muqaablaa
Posted on: February 11, 2010
I have posted a couple of songs from “Detective” (1958) in the past. This was a suspense movie directed by Shakti Samanta. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Mala Sinha in lead roles.
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Aapne chheen liyaa dil
Posted on: February 11, 2010
When it comes to playback singing, especially female playback singing, Mangeshkar family of siblings rules.
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Ae pyaar teri duniyaa se ham
Posted on: February 9, 2010
There are a few great movies in 1950s whose songs were hugely popular in 1950s. One was “jhaanjhar” and other was “Jhamela”. The prints of these movies were lost in a fire and we no longer have any prints of these movies.
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Here is a laajaawaab song from a movie called, well, “Laajawaab”. This is a movie from 1950 which had Sohan, Rehaana, Ifteqar etc in lead roles.
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Ye raat phir na aayegi
Posted on: February 3, 2010
“Mahal” (1949) was one of the earliest movies of the suspense genre. This movie had some nice songs in it.
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“Laawaaris” (1981) was a movie of the time when Amitabh was at the zenith of his career when the only way for him was to go downhill. Those were the days when moviewatchers went to the movie to watch Amitabh Bachchan the superstar, not Amitabh Bachchan the actor. Amitabh Bachchan and his producers had started to rest on the laurels that he had won in the past years. It was expected that the same old tired storyline would continue to wrk in movie after movie. And so it proved too.
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