Archive for 2010
Tum hamen bhool gaye
Posted on: October 29, 2010
“Balam” (1949) is by now a forgotten movie. This movie has Wasti, Suraiyya,Agha, Nigar, Masud, Jayant etc in main roles.
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Teri nazar mein main rahoon
Posted on: October 29, 2010
A few days ago, I had discussed about my resolution to post all the available Sajjad Hussain compositions in this blog. So far I have discussed 33 such songs which amount to about one third of all the Sajjad Hussain compositions in Hindi movies. After that, I have hit a wall and I was unable to find more songs to discuss.
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I have mentioned it many a timers that the golden era of Hindi movie music had great music coming from everywhere. Not only well known movies with well known composers, even C grade movies with lesser known composers were creating great music those days. Many of these lesser known songs and movies have been forgotten with time. Looking for these forgotten song and listening to them (often for the first time) is a highly rewarding experience.
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Rajendra Kumar was known as Jubilee Kumar in his heydays and it is obvious that he must be having his huge fan following at that time. personally I was not his fan because he was just befotre my time.
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Badi der bhai badi der bhai
Posted on: October 28, 2010
I have discussed six songs from “Basant Bahaar” (1956) in the past and all those were iconic songs. I thought that there were no more songs, and certainly no more iconic songs left in the movie to be discussed.
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When I was a kid, I thought that most Hindi movie songs were love songs, and there were few songs of other categories. But now I know better. One can see that the Hindi movie songs fall into several categories. One song itself can belong to several categories.
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“Railway Platform” (1955) is a movie which is now known as the debut movie of Sunil Dutt. Apart from that, this movie also has some nice songs in it, including the iconic song Basti basti parwat parwat gaataa jaaye banjaaraa
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Main pal do pal ka shaayar hoon
Posted on: October 25, 2010
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“Kabhi Kabhi” (1976) is a movie whose music was quite unlike the music prevalent in Hindi movies at that time. The music of this movie had a retro feel about it and music lovers liked that. The songs of this movie became popular and they in fact have outlived most songs of that era.
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Ye samaa ye rut ye nazaare
Posted on: October 25, 2010
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) is one of those movies that I have actually watched (albeit on TV) and the only thing I recall about this movie is that Baby Sonia (now known as Nitu Singh) had played a double role in this movie (and that is why this title called “Do Kaliyaan” viz “two buds”).
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“Waqt” (1965) was a path breaking movie in more ways than one. For one, it was a multistarrer movie, one decade before this term came into circulation. Secondly, it was the movie that set the rules for lost and found movies which became the norm one decade later. In brief, “Waqt” (1965) inspired movie makers like G P Sippy (Sholay, Shaan) as well as Manmohan Desai (Amar Akbar Anthony).
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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