Archive for the ‘Bird songs’ Category
Bappi Lahiri is today remembered as the person who triggered degradation of Bollywood music with his “disco” music. But that is not how he began his career. Bappi Lahiri began his career by composing some outstanding music in his initial movies, viz “Zakhmee” (1975), “Chalte Chalte” (1976) etc.
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I was not aware about this movie called “Gajre” (1948) nor about this song.
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Kabootar aajaa aajaa re
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Manglaa” (1950) was the second Hindi movie made by Gemini pictures, who till then were mainly producers of South Indian language movies. Like in their earlier effort, this movie too was made in Tamil and then dubbed into Hindi. The songs however were re recorded using singers and lyricists of Hindi movies.
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Bol papeehe bol re
Posted on: November 26, 2009
What I knew about “Taraanaa” (1951) was that the movie had Dilip Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles. But was that all ? there was more to it than just these two.
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In the beginning of his career, Kalyanji had initially given music alone, before forming a partnership with his younger sibling, viz Anandji. “Bedard Zamaana Kyaa Jaane” (1959) is one such movie where Kalyanji gave mosic solo under the name Kalyanji Veerji Shah.
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“Pyaar Kiye Jaa” (1966) was a runaway hit. Though Shashi Kapoor was the hero of this movie, it had many other entertainers in it, viz Kishore Kumar, Mehmood, Mumtaz ( then an upcoming actress) etc.
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Kaahe koyal shor machaaye re
Posted on: July 22, 2009
I have read about this song,though I had never heard this song before. yesterday I searched for this song and listened ( and watched) it for the first time.
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Naani teri morni ko mor le gaye
Posted on: July 7, 2009
This song “naani teri morni ko mor le gaye” is one of the most memorable children’s song in Bollywood. And this song to my mind has a very special place among all children’s song that we have had so far.
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I post many songs in this blog that I describe as timeless classics. I am sure such songs have some special qualities that ensures this, otherwise we also have songswhich are forgotten almost as soon as they are released.
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Aaj main jawaan ho gayi hoon
Posted on: April 24, 2009
“Main Sundar Hoon”(1971) is not a movie that too many people may remember now. But this movie had some amazingly popular songs which were just the songs to appeal to youngsters.
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