Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle solo’ Category
Wo din kahaan gaye mere
Posted on: May 5, 2010
“Vachan” (1955) was the first movie of Ravi as an independent music director, and this movie saw Ravi’s career getting launched in a grand way. In this movie, Ravi composed an iconic song viz “Chandaa mama door ke”.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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Yaar baadshah yaar dilrubaa
Posted on: April 12, 2010
There are at least two movies called CID that I am aware of. One is CID (1956) and another is CID 909 (1967).
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“Shrimatiji” (1952) is a movie that was different from the usual Bollywood movies. Its storyline was not Indian, rather that was drawn from external sources. And it is interesting to find stereotypical depiction of exotic people in this movie and its songs.
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Palat meri jaan tere qurbaan
Posted on: April 5, 2010
I have posted a few well known songs from “Aan Milo Sajna”(1970). There are some “lesser known ” songs in this movie. By “lesser known”, what I mean is that I was not aware about these songs being part of “Aan Milo Sajna” when everyone else did.
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Zindagi ke rang kayi re saathi re
Posted on: April 1, 2010
“Aadmi Aur Insaan” (1969) was a movie starring Dharmendra, Saira Bano, Feroz Khan etc. The songs of this movie were very popular in its days.
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Nadi ka kinaaraa ho
Posted on: March 31, 2010
When it comes to dancing ladies of Bollywood movies, Helen is known to us all, but there were others as well. Bela Bose was one of her contemporaries and much of her dancing was in 1960s.
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Jawaan jaaneman haseen dilruba
Posted on: March 27, 2010
I like to listen to old songs as is obvious from the songs posted here. But what about the present generation ? They obviously listen to the contemporary music. But it is for people like us to make them aware of the musical treasures of the old movies.
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Naina hain pyaase mere
Posted on: March 20, 2010
“Aavishkaar” (1973) was a low budget movie with a different (and realistic) story line. Such movies were called “new wave” movies, and later “art” movies and such movies struggled to get released in movie halls.
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Toone jo samjha hai mujhko
Posted on: March 19, 2010
I have posted a song from “Boxer” (1965) in the past. Here is another song from this movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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