Archive for the ‘Boat song’ Category
Door hai kinaara
Posted on: April 18, 2009
When it comes to “maajhi” songs, one thinks of S D Burman.Here is an outstanding Majhi song, but it is by another music director who in fact was making his debut as a music director in this movie.
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Dam bhar jo udhar munh phere
Posted on: April 10, 2009
It is a boat song, chaayageet song, sensuous song, romantic song, all rolled into one.
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Here is a song which I remember listening to in my younger days, though I never could find out those days which movie this song was from. That is how it was with loudspeaker songs those days. Unlike radio songs, they would not announce the name of the movie before playing such songs. 😉
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Dil ki nazar se nazron ki dil se
Posted on: March 21, 2009
“Anaadi” was a movie starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan. There were some very nice songs picturised on them in this movie.
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Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahaani
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“The Great Gambler” was an Amitabh Bachchan movie that was pronounced a damp squib when it was released in 1979. That came as a surprise to me because I found it a more watchable movie than many of the supposedly successful Amitabh Bachchan movies like “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Suhaag” etc.
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Tere sau deewaane
Posted on: March 15, 2009
Few people have heard the name of this movie and fewer people may have heard this song, but that was not the case all the time. During 1973, this song “tere sau deewaane” used to be quite a popular song.
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In Bollywood movies, one associates Maajhi songs with S D Burman and R D Burman. And these songs are mostly sung by S D Burman and Kishore Kumar.
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“Haath Ki Safaai” (1974) was a movie featuring Vinod Khanna, Randhir Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rekha (I think ) Simi Garewal. Despite such names, the movie was soon forgotten.
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This 1967 movie called “Milan” had its story based on reincarnation,where the same couple-Sunil Dutt and Nutan, would meet again and again in every reincarnation ( and expressed by the song “Hum tum yug yug se ye geet milan ke gaate rahenge”).
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When one listens to old song, one needs to have some appreciation of history, otherwise one tends to judge old songs by present day standards and thus he/ she may do grave injustice to old songs while making hasty judgements about them.
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