Archive for 2010
I was neither aware of this movie called “Ye Dil Kisko Doon” (1963) nor this song from the movie. But the obscurity of this movie is easily explainable when you find out who the lead actor of this movie is. It is Shashi Kapoor- enough said. 😀
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Koi bataa de dil hai kahaan
Posted on: November 11, 2010
I have listened to this song many a times in my ignorant mode. By that I mean that I was totally ignorant about the details of the song, except the obvious details about the singers.
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Lagan tose laagi balmaa
Posted on: November 11, 2010
“Dekh Kabeeraa Royaa” (1957) has several nice songs in it. So far I have discussed three very well known songs (iconic songs) from this movie.
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Laut gayaa gham ka zamaanaa
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Most songs discussed in this blog are songs that are well known. Then there are songs that are lessser known. On the other end of the spectrum, there are songs which are so rare that not too many people are aware of their existence.
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When one looks at old movies (all over the world, not just India),one finds that the idea of political correctness was not known at that time. Moreover, many of the ideas depicted in old movies would be regarded as highly objectionable today though they were regarded as normal.
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Andher nagri chaupat raja
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Many of the songs discussed in this blog are well known songs. But in this blog, I also discuss songs that are rare and not known to many people. In fact, this blog may be one of the very few places on internet where such songs may find mention.
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“Sharmilee” (1971) was one of those movies that I lived a lot. This movie and its songs came about at a time when Kishore Kumar and R D Burman had taken the Hindi movie music world by storm. I also happened to be at an impressionable age (8-12 year age group) which meant that I was highly impressed and influenced by the music of that time. Forget me, even the so called grown ups turned out to be just as impressionable as me, as far as liking Kishore Kumar-R D Burman brand of music was concerned.
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Initially I thought that this movie “Bhabhi” (1957) only had one great song, viz. Chal ud ja re panchchi but with time I realised that this movie was full of memorable songs in it. By now I have discussed as many as five songs from “Bhabhi” (1957) in this blog.
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Gaal gulaabi kiske hain
Posted on: November 8, 2010
“Love in Shimla” (1960) was the debut movie of Joy Mukherji and Sadhana. And one must say that the two of them made an impressive debut.
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“Adhikaar” (1954) is a movie that is ahead of its time. And as far as its music is concerned, it is timeless as I have been discovering. The movie has several songs of different genre and all these songs are gems.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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