Archive for 2010
“Aakaashdeep” (1965) is a movie that had some very nice songs in it. I have already posted three songs from this movie.
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I have been posting songs from “Banarasi Thug” (1962) these days. This is a movie that was a B grade movie, but what songs this movie had !
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Barso re bairi badarwaa barso re
Posted on: July 13, 2010
Kids of my and earlier generations grew up reading adventure tales where intrepid explorers going deep into Africa would be captured by natives and tied at the stake and the man eating natives would then dance around the stakes as preparation for cooking the captured adventurers in their cooking pots.
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Yesterday I stumbled upon the songs of “Alif Laila” (1953). From the names of actors, it appears a B grade movie, where Vijay Kumar, Asha Mathur, Nimmi and Pran were the lead actors.
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khuli khuli zulfon ko baandh bhi lo
Posted on: July 12, 2010
I have recently stumbled upon the songs of “Banarasi Thug” (1962) and I have posted a couple of songs from this movie.
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O sajnaa barkhaa bahaar aayi
Posted on: July 12, 2010
This is one song that I thought I had already posted but I was wrong, and this fact was pointed out to me by some readers too.
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chhun chhun ghungroo boley
Posted on: July 12, 2010
I have been posting the songs of “Phagun” (1958) these days. In this series, here is the 8th song from this movie.
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It has been pointed out by my readers that the song “Ramaiyya vasta vaiyya” from “Shree 420” (1955) is missing from the blog. Not just this song, I am sure many great gems of yesteryears are missing from the blog. But I will gradually add all these songs. The fact that so many great songs are still missing from this blog despite the blog boasting of over 2600 songs is an indication that there are far too many great songs that were created during the golden era of Bollywood movie music.
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“Boot Polish” (1953) was a moving tale of orphan kids who struggle to come up in their lives. It is a kind of movie that I personally cannot bear to watch, and I have not watched this movie.
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Bholi soorat dil ke khote
Posted on: July 12, 2010
It was in late 1940s and early 1950s that Indian movie music was discovering new sources of inspirations for its songs, apart from classical music. These new sources of inspiration being Indian folk music and western music.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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