Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
Aa jaa jaan e jaan
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne” (1964) was produced and directed by V Shantaram. This movie introduced Rajshree (daughter of V Shantaram) alongwith Jeetendra. The movie also had Surendra Bharati, Nana Palsikar, K. Date, C. H. Atma, Babloo etc in it.
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Ham hain nashe mein
Posted on: July 4, 2012
“Sehra” (1963) was a Shantaram Production movie. It was produced and directed by V Shantaram. The movie had Prashant, Sandhya, Mumtaz, Ullhas, Manmohan Krishna, Baburao Pendharkar, K. Date, M. Rajan, Lalita Pawar, Babloo etc in it.
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Jaan e jaan dhoondhta phir rahaa
Posted on: July 3, 2012
Watching old Hindi movies (and its songs) is a good way to look back at the past and see how things were back then. Another way of looking back at the past is by going through the publications of those days.
I recall that I was an avid reader of books in my younger days, viz 1970s. I would read each and every book, whether they were meant for kids or grown ups. In addition to being an avid reader, I was an avid collectors of children’s magazines in Hindi. The children’s magazines in Hindi those days used to be “Bal Bhatri”, “Nandan”,”Champak”,”Parag”, “Lotpot”, Chandamama”, “Indrajaal Comics” etc. You name the children’s magazines and I collected them. I not only collected them, I catalogued them systematically too. They were my prized possessions. I would not be averse to get hold of magazines not in my collection, but I would be quite reluctatnt to lend my magazines to others, because the likelihood of the borrower returning the book were remote in most cases. One needed to pester the borrower hard, sometimes by visiting his home, before one could get your book back.
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Dhaley din aise
Posted on: July 3, 2012
“Laal Kothi” (1978) was a movie produced by Tollywood, as the Bangla movie industry is known. The movie was produced in Bangla and Hindi both. Most of the actors were from the Bangla film industry and/or those conversant with Bangla. This movie, produced under the banner of Peacock Films was produced by Ashis Roy. It was directed by Kanak Mukherji and Mohinder Batra. The starcast had Tanuja, Ranjit Mullick, Danny Denzongpa, Utpal Dutt, Anil Dhawan, Tarun Kumar, Master Partha Mukherjee, Swaraj Chatterjee, Arun, Ranjan Mukherjee, Gupte etc.
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Aise machal ke nain badal ke
Posted on: July 3, 2012
Today (3 july) is the death anniversary of Raj Kumar. Raj Kumar made his debut as an actor in 1950s and his most productive decade as an actor was the decade of 1960s. There are actors who are remembered for songs picturised on him, but Raj Kumar is often remembered for some of the immortal dialogues picturised on her. For instance, the dialogue of “Waqt” (1975)- “ye bacchon ke khelne ki cheez nahin hai Chunar seth…”, and the “Paakeeja” (1971) dialogue’ “Aape paaon dekhe…”.
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This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Ek gaana hai, kareeb chaalis saal puraana – “Chain Se Humko Kabhi, Aap Ne Jeene Ne Diyaa” . From the film ‘Pran Jaaye Par Vachan Na Jaaye’. And the year is 1973. Yes getting to be about 40 years ago. But listening to this song, even today – the sound, the feelings, and the words – all appear to be so young and so fresh. And the lyricist – composer pair is SH Behari and OP Nayyar. A partnership that started in the mid 50s, and flowered exceptionally in the decade of 60s to give so many memorable songs one after another.
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Bechaara dil kyaa kare
Posted on: June 27, 2012
“Khushboo” (1975) was based on a Bangla story namely “Panditmoshai” written by Sharat Chandra Chatterji. The movie was a Tirupati pictures combine presentation. It was produced by Prasann Kapoor, who if I remember correctly was the brother of Jeetendra.
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Jaaun to kahaan jaaun
Posted on: June 27, 2012
Today (27 june) is the birth anniversary of R D Burman, who was easily the most influential music director during the time I was growing up in late 1960s and for entire 1970s. His dominance was so total that most other music directors had to change their music to sound like R D Burman. I too k it almost for granted that any song that I liked those days had to be a composition of R D Burman.
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“Dhaake Ki Malmal” (1956) was a Nanda Films Production. It was produced and directed by J K Nanda. The movie had Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Ulhas, Rajan Haksar, Jeevan, Jagdeep, Shyam Kumar, Sajjan, Raj Mehra, Om Prakash etc in it.
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Chalaa kaafilaa pyaar kaa
Posted on: June 24, 2012
These days I am discussing the songs of “Shart” (1954) and by now I have discussed as many as eight songs from this movie. Despite discussing so many songs from this movie, we are noswhere near exhausing all the songs from this movie. We are only around the halfway mark as far as the songs of this movie are concerned.
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