Archive for March 2011
Tan rang lo jee aaj man rang lo
Posted on: March 20, 2011
Today (20 march 2011) is Holi, one of the major festivals in India. This festival is also one of the most popular festival in Hindi movies as it offers great opportunity for movie makers to show the lead actors and others letting their hairs down and singing and dancing rather more uninhibitedly than usual.
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Tumhi rehnumaa ho meri zindagi ke
Posted on: March 18, 2011
Early 1970s had seen some non mainstream movies made on “bold” subjects. The movie watchers, as well as the movie critics were not mature enough to appreciate these movies. These movies were badly panned by the critics and such movies flopped. “Dastak”, “Chetna” and ‘Do Raahaa” were a few such movies.
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Here is a song that wears many hats. this song is a romantic/love song. In addition, this song is also a jeep song, and also an “elephant” song. Yes, the protagonists of this song, viz Jeetendra and Aparna Sen are expressing their love for each other while driving on a jeep and also while riding an elephant.
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Jo pyaar toone mujhko diyaa thhaa
Posted on: March 18, 2011
Hindi movies have several songs of the genre where the hero has a broken heart aften being betrayed in love. This genre of songs often tend to become repetitive after a while as far as their lyrics are concerned. The phrase “Toota huaa dil” viz “broken heart” often figures mandatorily in these songs.If one has heard one broken heart song, one may have heard them all- that is what often appears to music lovers.
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Aayi aayi basanti belaa
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) was a story of Angulimaal, a bandit who turned saint, a historical/mythological character who lived during the times of Lord Buddha.This movie had Bharat Bhushan,Nimmi and Anita Guha in it.
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Aaj bhari mehfil mein ae dil
Posted on: March 18, 2011
“Jalti Nishaani” (1957) is a forgotten movie by now. This movie had Kamal Kapoor, Geeta Bali, Kuldeep Kaur, Sundar, Ulhaas, Chaman Puri etc.
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“Niraalaa” (1950) is a movie starring very young Madubala and Dev Anand. And this movie also has some superb songs sung by a very young Lata under the music director of her mentor C Ramchandra.
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Haseenon se to bas saahab
Posted on: March 17, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
One of the best things about old Hindi songs is that not only are they, by and large, melodious but they come in all varieties, to suit every mood. So depending on your mood, you can always pick up an appropriate genre of songs and you will enjoy a treasure-house of songs in that category.
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Kyun udaa jaataa hai aanchal
Posted on: March 16, 2011
My regular readers may have noticed that I have been discussing quite a few Suman Kalyanpur songs these days. And indeed, I am doing this deliberately. She was nearing a milestone in this blog and I wanted her to reach there quickly.
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Baithha bairi banke sainyya
Posted on: March 16, 2011
“Wo Din Yaad Karo” is a movie that was released in 1971. Though I was very much around in 1971 , I have absolutely no recollection of this movie. Obviously this movie had flopped big time. At that time, when Rajesh Khanna was ruling the roost, who was going to watch a movie starring Sanjay Khan and Nanda? No one really.
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