Archive for 2010
This post is written by Santosh Ojha, a relatively new visitor of this blog and a fellow enthusiast of Bollywood movie music
I had stumbled onto Atul’s admirable effort a few months ago when I was looking for the lyrics of “Aaj pahli tarikh hai” for a non-film piece for my own blog. After I posted the piece, I sent the link to Atul who not only read that piece, but also several others on my blog. He has been prompt -and generous- with his comments. Over time we had sporadic email exchanges. We discovered that not only we had a common interest (Hindi film songs) but also our backgrounds; similar age, similar geography (he from Ranchi and I from Jamshedpur; both in Jharkhand) and both from middle-class families.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
It is my gut feel (and I may be wrong here) that the early 70s saw more newcomers entering the Hindi film industry for significant roles (not necessarily hero/heroine) than any other period before this time.
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The songs that I post in this blog can be roughly divided into two categories. One category is those songs that were popular in their days and are often well known among the fans of Hindi movie music.
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Kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Reading the song “kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa” may not ring a bell if one has not heard this song before. But once the song begins, one wonders how a song like this has managed to remain so well hidden from public ears.
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Ab to aa jaao balam
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Few People of my generation may have heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952) and same is the case as far as the songs of this movie are concerned. But when I listened to the songs of this movie, I was quite impressed.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The summer of 1972 was my very first trip to Mumbai (then Bombay). It was summer vacation and my parents and all of us had gone to spend the vacation in Bombay.
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Ab do dilon ki mushqil
Posted on: September 2, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Pooja Ke Phool” (1964). I have noticed that this movie has some wonderful songs in it. So far I have posted two songs from this movie which were sung by Lata. These songs are easily among the best songs that the Lata-Madan Mohan combination gave us in their long association.
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Kishore Kumar is today known as one of the legendary singers of Hindi movies. But that is not how he was known till late 1960s. Till then, he was a middling actor-singer in Hindi movies who would act in movies and sing for himself. In addition, he would sing songs mainly for Dev Anand, courtesy his mentor S D Burman.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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