Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
Tujhe mili roshni mujhko andheraa
Posted on: May 14, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is a gem of a song from the movie Apna Haath Jaganaath. This is a 1960 film with Kishore Kumar and Saeeda Khan in lead roles. The movie was very topical for the time it was created. With a large number of educated youth coming into their own in the society, the issues of employment opportunities were as crucial at those times as they are now, only that such issues were just beginning to get the attention of the mainstream society. The movie is about the difficulties faced by educated young men to establish themselves in jobs or in vocational professions. The movie had a message about the dignity of labor, as well as an examination of the government policies (see the song ‘permit permit’ from this movie; already posted on this blog) that were beginning to breed corruption in the society.
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Kaho aake bahaar kare mera singaar
Posted on: May 12, 2011
“Chaalis Din” (1959) is an obscure B grade movie that had Premnath, Shakila,Nishi etc in it. According’s to Atul’s axiom,if a movie is an obscure B grade movie, it must have absolutely a grade music in it. 🙂 So here is one such song from this movie .
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Chhedi maut ne shehnaayi
Posted on: May 6, 2011
“Heer” (1956) is a story based on the Punjabi Tragic love story of Heer Ranjha, which has been an important source of inspiration for several Hindi movies.
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Bade aaye shikaari shikaar karne
Posted on: May 5, 2011
“Angulimaal” (1960) is a movie that was based on the life of a bandit who got reformed after he met Lord Buddha. This movie was produced by Thai International Society and it was directed by Vijay Bhatt. Bharat Bhushan, Nimmi,Anita Guha etc acted in it.
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Hamdam mere khel na jaano
Posted on: April 28, 2011
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“Phir Wohi dil Laayaa Hoon” (1963) was a Shammi Kapoor style movie in which Joy Mukherji, a Shammi Kapoor clone had starred opposite Asha Parekh. this movie was a home production of Joy Mukherji’s family.
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Badaa mushqil hai daaman bachaanaa
Posted on: April 28, 2011
I have discussed songs that are stage songs as well as songs that are mujra songs. Here is an interesting song that combines the two. Yes, this song is a stage mujra song. In other words,this song is a stage song where a mujra is presented after the curtain opens.
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Kyun mujhe itni khushi de di
Posted on: April 27, 2011
I had mentioned that I was temporarily at a place where internet and for that matter even electricity was not guaranteed. Now,after pointing the fact out to the powers be, I find that the things are much better. Electricity is avaialble, because the generator set is being switched on in case of no electicity while earlier, people were too lazy to switch on the gen set, which is an essential item in these parts.
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Aaaa jaa mere saathi aajaa
Posted on: April 20, 2011
“Saaranga” (1960) is a mythological movie with lovely songs in it. Listening to the songs of this movie on a peaceful evening is a wonderful experience. That is how I had first heard the title song of this movie (Saarangaa teri yaad mein(Saarangaa)(1960)) in 1970s in Vividh Bharati in a summer evening.
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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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