Archive for 2010
It was in 1960s that Indians were first treated to views of countries outside India and the Indian audiences were left gasping at the sight of the world, viz Japan, Europe etc and the progress that they had made vis a vis India left a lasting mpression in Indian minds, not that it led to any progress or introspection among Indians. They were just happy to enjoy these foreign locales on the movie screens.
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Tere mere sapne ab ek rang hain
Posted on: August 1, 2010
“Guide” (1965) is a landmark movie in more ways than one.Its music was ethereal, and the industry insiders (singers, lyricists, music directors etc) voted this movie as musically the best Hindi movie of all times. Listening to the songs of this movie, one can see why. The songs of this movie has cast a magical spell over its listeners right from the time they became available some 45 years ago, and that magic spell continues even today, even across generations.
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It was on 31st July 1980 that Rafi left us for heavenly abode and the music world was suddenly a much poorer place. The vacuum that was created as a result of his demise could not be filled and that vacuum exists even today.
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In 1980s, Bollywood movies were inundated by “Disco” music and “Disco” craze had swept the entire nation like an epidemic.
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Pal bhar mein ye kyaa ho gayaa
Posted on: July 31, 2010
Action movies, which were regarded as B and C grade stuff till 1960s had gone on to become A grade movies, and movies with non violent stories were pushed out of centrestage. But there were takers for these movies, which were then known as social movies of family movies.
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Main shaayar badnaam
Posted on: July 31, 2010
While posting songs from the golden era of Bollywood movies, I have tended to concentrate more on the songs of 1950s and 1960s, even though I grew up with songs of 1970s. Just like we these days lament about the quality of Bollywood movie songs today and cite old Bollywood movie songs as the epitome of quality, the same lament was heard even in 1970s. Even I was under the impression that the quality of music in 1970s was not what it was in the earlier years. Now of course I can have a hearty laugh at my own expense with the benefit of hindsight.
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I have listened to this song quite a few times, but I was not aware of the details about this song, apart from the obvious fact that this song was sung by Lata.
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I was under the impression that I had posted all the songs from “Mera Saayaa” (1966), but in reality I have so far posted only four songs from this movie. There are more memorable songs in this movie that are yet to be posted.
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Aay haay dilrubaa
Posted on: July 31, 2010
I have a catgory of songs in this blog called “dance competition” songs. In this category, typically two dancers compete against each other. This has led to some superb dance competitions between dancers of formidable reputations.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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