Archive for the ‘Birthday song’ Category
Whenever we in India celebrate the birthday of someone, we tend to sing a few happy birthday songs from Hindi movies. There are a few such songs which have become so popular that they have become an integral part of birthday parties in India.
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Pom pom pom baajaa boley
Posted on: August 25, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
When the year 1952 dawned, Geeta ji had been singing in Hindi films now for about 6 years, and had an incredible 500+ songs already behind her. On the other hand, the soon to be famous OP Nayyar had composed the background score for Kaneez in 1949, and this film, Aasmaan, was going to be his debut as an independent music director. He became known as a maverick composer and the Melody Maestro in the coming years. OP Nayyar went through a phase in the 50s when All India Radio shunned his music as being too trendy, and Radio Ceylon became the remote beacon for music lovers to listen to his songs. In the mid to late 1950s, he became the highest paid composer in the industry, and the first one to command contracts worth one lakh (and more) for composing.
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I am aware of movies called “Aag” and “Aah” which were produced in late 1940s and early 1950s/ respectively. Another movie of a similar sounding title, viz “Aas” was also produced in the same era. This movie had Shekhar and Kamini Kaushal in it.
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This blog is over two years old now. In these two years, we have passed many milestones. By now, this blog has over 3100 songs. Recently the blog clocked one million visits, which is not bad for a non professional blog like this.
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Hindi movies, especially those of 1960s and 1970s, often had a birthday song in it. Many of these birthday songs have gone on to become evergreen birthday songs which are played/sung in birthdays even today.
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Ye tabla kahe dhik hai dhik hai
Posted on: August 21, 2009
“Smuggler” (1966) was a kind of movie which was regarded as B grade stuff in 1960s, but movies like this became mainstream by 1970s.
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I have not watched this movie, but I know for sure that this movie “Aayi Milan Ki Bela” must have been a big hit, going by the quality and popularity of its songs.
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Daa dir daaraa.. meri laadli
Posted on: May 1, 2009
I have listened to this song many times, and this sounded like a fun song to listen to.
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O nanhe se farishte
Posted on: February 2, 2009
This movie “Ek Phool Do Mali” was a lovely movie that touched the hearts of the movie goers who watched this movie.
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Ham bhi agar bachche hote
Posted on: January 4, 2009
Here is a song that is a perenniel favourite of kids and grown ups both. The song is very well known but few people can tell which movie this song was from. Even I keep forgetting, but it is good that my farmaish senders make my task easier by mentioning the name of the movie with their farmaishes.
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