Archive for the ‘Bhajan’ Category
Ghoonghat ke pat khol re
Posted on: June 27, 2009
This bhajan is one of the most well known bhajans as well as one of the oldest. Though everyone had listened to it, few people can tell the movie to which it belongs. It is just yesterday that I found out this information.
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Upar gagan vishaal
Posted on: May 11, 2009
“upar gagan vishaal” is a song that launched Manna Dey’s career as a playback singer. This song from “Mashaal” (1950) was a bullock cart song. The picturisation shown Ashok Kumar riding a bullock cart and the bullock cart driver ( who is he ? ) singing this song.
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Pradeep wrote his songs with passion, and when given to sing, would sing with passion too. I have already posted a couple of superb song where Pradeep wrote the lyrics and sang them too.
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Tora man darpan kahlaaye
Posted on: February 27, 2009
When I watched “Kaajal” (1965) some 15 years later in a movie hall, I was all prepared to get bored to death when I realised that this movie had Raj KUmar and Meena Kumari in the lead roles, and the movie. But then a song appeared, then another, then another…. ad infinitum.
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Jyot se jyot jagaate chalo
Posted on: January 10, 2009
“Sant Gyaneshwar” was a C grade small budget Bollywood, the likes of which routinely go into oblivion unnoticed. But the music of this movie elevated the movie so much that one of its songs went on to become a bhajan, as well a prayer in schools, homes, etc.
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tan man dhan sab hai tera
Posted on: November 26, 2008
“Tan man dhan sab hai tera” was a song that I heard many a times in 1970s, without getting to know any details about this song. I could make out that the singer was Mukesh, but that is all I knew about this song.
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Jaago Mohan pyaare jaago
Posted on: September 8, 2008
For sleeping, you have options like listening to lories ( if you are young), or counting sheep ( if you are not that young), trying to do homework etc.
But what about waking up ? There is no lori equivalent of songs to choose from when it comes to waking people up. In its absence, people resort to mechanical contraption viz alarm clocks or biological contraption viz ghar ka murga giving “baang” etc.
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