Archive for February 2011
I keep discoving forgotten songs from forgotten movies quite regularly. Here is one such song that I discovered a few hours ago.
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This post is written by Lalitha, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular visitor of this blog
This is my first attempt at writing anything more than a couple of sentences on the Internet, and the thought fills me with trepidation. In a rash moment, I practically offered to do one for this blog, and so here I am, penning a few thoughts down, and hoping that I don’t sound like a rambling old idiot!
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I have discussed a song from “Goonj” (1952) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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I have discussed as many as seven songs from “Dillagi” (1949) already in this blog. So I thought that there was no other song left in this movie to be discussed. But I was wrong. There are a few more songs in this movie that are still missing in this blog.
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It has often been suggested that Hindi movies of the earlier days were far more permissive and liberal than the movies that followed later. Based on my own observations,I tend to agree with this view.
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When I was growing up as a kid in late 1960s and early 1970s, I noticed that old movie makers tended to give their movies the same title as the titles of new movies. 🙂 When radio announcer announced songs from “Andaaz”, “Aankhen”,”Aarzoo”,”Adaalat”, “Parwarish” etc, I expected to listen to songs from the newer movies of 1960s and 1970s and I was very upset when the songs played were from old movies of 1940s and 1950s, which were boring by my definition.
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There have been atleast three movies called “Sanjog” which were released in 1943, 1960 and 1971 respectively. I have discussed songs from all these movies in this blog.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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