Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle solo’ Category
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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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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Sun jaa pukaar
Posted on: July 11, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Phagun” (1958). Here is another song from this movie.
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Teer ye chhupke chalaayaa kisne
Posted on: July 9, 2010
These days I am posting songs from “Phaagun” (1958). I have posted four songs from this movie and I need to post nearly twice this number of songs still left to be posted.
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Piyaa piyaa naa laage moraa jiyaa
Posted on: July 6, 2010
The storyline of “Phagun” (1958) was clearly inspired from “Naagin” (1954). In “Naagin”(1954), the heroine finds the music of “been” irrestible, whereas in “Phaagun”, hero’s flute has a similar effect on the heroine. In “Naagin”, we had Pradeep Kumar and Vyjyanti Mala in lead roles, whereas in “Phagun”, we had Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala playing the same roles.
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Most of the songs discussed in this blog are from 1970s and earlier. By 1980s, deterioration in the quality of Bollywood songs had begun and the sun of the golden era of Bollywood music was on the verge of setting.
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In 1950s, Bollywood movies discovered the songs of the genre that I call “party song” or “club” song, where a dancer (female mostly) sings and dances while people (good people as well as villains) are hanging out.
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When Kishore Kumar is in the frame, you expect him to take the centre stage and dominate the singing. Here is this song where Kishore Kumar for a change is at the receiving end of a song.
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Aate hi jawaani ka mausam
Posted on: May 6, 2010
Ravi as a music director was a favourite of movie makers making movies on “muslim social” theme. There are several well known and not so well known movies of this genre in which Ravi gave music.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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