Archive for April 2011
Mast aankhen hain ki paimaane do
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Naqli Nawaab” (1962) is a movie starring Manoj Kumar and Shakila. The movie itself may not be any great shakes and even its music may have been forgotten with time, but the music of this movie is quite wonderful to listen to, as I have discovered recently.
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Ae bambu bam bolo
Posted on: April 15, 2011
In the second half of 1950s, Hindi movies saw the influence of rock and roll music. The music of these songs was influenced by Rock and roll in the western countries. The lyrics of these songs were mainly gibberish.
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Tere jahaan se ham chale
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Inquilaab” (1956) is a movie whose songs were discovered by me only recently. And what music this song had !
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Sundarta ke sabhi shikaari
Posted on: April 15, 2011
“Jogan” (1950) had as many as fifteen songs in it. And amazingly, all these songs became hugely popular and remain so to this date.
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Ae roti huyi taqdeer bataa
Posted on: April 15, 2011
I am aware of a movie called “Toote Khilaune” (1978) but I was not aware that a movie of the same name was produced some quarter of a century ago as well.
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Aap yoon faaslon se guzarte rahe
Posted on: April 14, 2011
“Shankar Hussain” (1976) is a movie which has been forgotten with time though it is just over three decades old and is therefore of recent vintage by the standard of this blog. I recall that one of its songs became quite popular and in fact this song is regarded as a classic now. I am talking about the song Kahin ek maasoom naazuk si ladki which is a fantastic song sung by Rafi.
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I was not aware of this movie called “Do Dilon Ki Daastaan” (1966) till recently. I wonder why . This movie has such nice songs in it and it should have been much better known. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyantimala in lead roles.
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The movie has been forgotten, and with it the songs of this movie too have passed into oblivion, but that is not how it should be. I find that this movie has some very hummable songs in it.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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