Archive for 2010
This is celebration time again for this blog. And incidentally this is the third such occasion for this blog in this month that we are celebrating some landmark. On 11 july 2010, this blog completed 2600 songs and on 19 july 2010, this blog turned Two years old. And today on 30 july 2010, this blog completes yet another century.
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O P Nayyar, who ruled the roost in Hindi movie music scene in 1950s and 1960s had lost much of his ground by the end of 1960s. But I find that the music that he created in his last few movies was perhaps as outstanding as any music that he created in his earlier more heralded music. It is another matter that the music of these movies were not lapped up as much as they should have been for various reasons.
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Bollywood Mujra songs tend to be sung at a slow pace accompanied by slowly moving Mujra dancing. But here is a Mujra song on steroids. The song is quite a fast paced song, and the dance is at a break-neck speed too.
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Meena Kumari who played happy roles in 1950s began to play tragic roles in 1960s. And that obviously included singing sad songs as well.
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This is a song that I was not aware of. I became aware of this song thanks to a farmaish by Raja.
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Here is a nice song from a lesser known movie. This movie is “Mulzim” (1963) and it had Pradeep Kumar and Shakila in lead roles.
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Long ago, when I was a school kid, I was an avid radio listener. One of the radio programmes that I regularly listened to was “Vishesh Jaimala” broadcast on saturday evening (and repeated on sunday afternoon). This programme was presented by a celebrity from Bollywood, but sometimes celebrities from other fields were also invited to present the programme.
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Ae dile aawaaraa chal
Posted on: July 29, 2010
Here is a song from “Dr Vidya” (1962). Only the audio of this song is available and so I am unable to find out about its picturisation.
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Yoon zindagi ke raaste
Posted on: July 29, 2010
One of the less common category of songs is what I call “Radio” songs. These are the songs that come out of Radio and people are shown listening to the song in front of their radios. And the hero/ heroine/ other actor is shown singing the song live in the radio station.
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Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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