Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
I had neither heard of this movie called “Neelam Pari” (1952) nor its songs till today. I heard this song for the first time just now and I decided that I needed to post this song in the blog.
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Bheegi bheegi fazaa
Posted on: September 30, 2010
This song starts with a car moving in a road, with four people sitting in it. Good, so it is a car song, I think.
But for the rest of the song, the car remains parked. The four of them have come for a picnic. We see Shashikala, holding a picnic basket in one hand, singing this song, to no one is particular. Others have assembled there for picnic, but she seems to have gone there to sing this song. 😀 I see that her colleagues include Dharmendra, but he keeps a low profile throughout this song.
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O meri jaan maine kahaa
Posted on: September 29, 2010
In this blog, most of the songs that I post are from the era prior to 1970. In reality, I grew up as a Hindi movie music listener from late 1960s and entire 1970s, and in those days I liked new songs, which meant songs from 1968 onwards.
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“Sujata” (1959) had some very nice songs in it that covered various stages of lives, different kinds of feelings etc.
For instance, this movie has one of most well known luallabies of all time, viz. Nanhi kali sone chali hawa dheere aana. Picturisation of this lullaby shows Sulochana singing this lullaby to babies who grow up to become Shashikala and Nutan respectively.
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In Hindi movies, love songs are arguably the most frequent form of songs that one comes across.Even among love songs there are so many varieties. “Missing the beloved” is one of these varieties. This opens up the opportunity for creating a song sung by the person missing the beloved. Job of the lyricists to come up with lyrics for such situations must be quite a challenge, seeing that such situations arise in every movie. To the credit of the lyricists of those days, they invariably managed to come up with original songs/ concepts to describe the feelings of the actors.
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Dekh hamen aawaaz na denaa
Posted on: September 28, 2010
I thought that I had already posted this song. But when I looked at the farmaishes of the readers then I realised that I had yet to post this song.
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Lata was Madan Mohan’s female singer of choice. But Madan Mohan has created some nice songs with other female singers as well.
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Nutan played a tragedy role in “Seema” (1955) and with that she stole a march over Meena Kumari in the race for becoming the first tragedy queen of Hindi movies.
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Kyaa ho jo din rangeelaa ho
Posted on: September 26, 2010
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) is a suspense movie starring Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik etc and the movie is directed by Vijay Anand.
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Ye rang bhare baadal
Posted on: September 25, 2010
I am always on the look out of rail songs. Once I had collected a list of about 25 rail songs from Hindi movies and I thought that I had covered just about all the songs that were there on that genre.
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