Archive for the ‘Asha Bhonsle songs’ Category
Jab chhaaye mera jaadoo
Posted on: April 1, 2009
I just posted a “Lootmaar” (1980) song as the 1000th song of this blog. Comments on that song indicated that the posted song (“piya ham saath mulk ka paani”) was not known to many.
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Sakhi ri sun
Posted on: March 31, 2009
I have posted a few songs from “Miss Mary” (1957) in the past. I described one of those songs (” O raat ke musaafir” ) as a Chaayageet song.
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Paanch rupaiyya barah aana
Posted on: March 30, 2009
As funny songs go, this song is hard to beat.
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BA, MA, PhD
Posted on: March 30, 2009
Here is yet another song about whose existence I was totally ignorant. And what a superb song it is ! It is from the movie “Adhikaar” (1954) from which I have already posted an equally awesome song ( “kamaata hoon bahut kuch” sung by Kishore Kumar and Geeta Dutt).
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Ab main jaaun
Posted on: March 29, 2009
Kishore Kumar and Mumtaz were signed up for a movie called “Pyaar Deewaana” in 1966 when both were relatively small time players in Bollywood scheme of things. The makers of the movie were equally small time players who had signed up small time artists for other tasks viz lyrics writing, music direction etc too and the shooting of this movie progressed at snail’s pace.
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Sach kahta hoon bahut haseen ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960), by now a forgotten movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. Moreover, it had music by O P Nayyar.
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Antam fantam chhod de babu
Posted on: March 27, 2009
It is a light hearted song from a movie called “Ham sab Chor Hain” (1956). This movie had music by O P Nayyar and lyrics were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri.
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Chanda mama door ke
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Translation and comments on the lyrics have been provided by Sudhir
“Vachan” was Ravi’s debut movie as a music director. I have said it that Ravi was a music director who created a large number of iconic songs, which have become immortal. And Ravi began proving that right from his debut movie.
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O meri chammakchallo
Posted on: March 25, 2009
When I was a young kid, I was made to believe that the hero-heroine would always be seen singing their love songs while running around trees. I am not very sure because I have not seen too many such songs.
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Ye duniya usiki jo pyaar karle
Posted on: March 23, 2009
Music director Ravi tended to deliver many hit songs in every movie where he was the music director. And he worked in more than 100 movies as a music director.
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