Archive for the ‘“chaand” song’ Category
Chaand kyaa hai Roop ka darpan
Posted on: May 17, 2009
The Golden era of Bollywood music (1950 to 1980) saw many great music directors enrich Bollywood movies with their outstanding compositions. Many of them went on to have very long successful innings lasting for decades.
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Dekha hai sabhi ne chaand ko
Posted on: May 9, 2009
In 1960s, Shammi Kapoor was the expert when it came to “teasing” ladies. Other aspiring heroes tried to ape Shammi Kapoor, but they hardly looked in the same league as a teaser.
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Ham hain to chaand aur taare
Posted on: May 5, 2009
This song from “Main Nashe mein hoon” (1959) is a “tonga” song, where the actors are seated on a tonga/ victoria/ tamtam ( whatever it was called) and sing this song.
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The word “Chaand” and its derivatives were quite common in Bollywood movies till 1970s, after which man reached the moon and mankind ( including Bollywood lyricists) would no longer look at “Chaand” with the same fascination.
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Khoya khoya chaand khulaa aasmaan
Posted on: April 27, 2009
By now I have posted more than a thousand songs from the golden era of Bollywood music. It can be easily noticed that lyrics played a very important roles in the success of these songs. In 1980s and later, lyrics lost its importance in the minds of the music directors and from that time onwards, songs lost their soul and their longevity. However great the singing and music may be, unless the singer and music director has a good song to work with, the song cannot hope to become popular.
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Tu mera chaand main teri chaandni
Posted on: April 23, 2009
When I listened to “Purani filmon ke geet” programme on Radio Ceylon in my younger days, this song “tu mera chand main teri chandni” used to get played so very often in that programme. If they had a popularity contest among all those old songs then this song would have won hands down in popularity, it seems to me.
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Chaand se parda kijiye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
This movie “Aao Pyaar Karen” (1994) is a recent movie by the standards of this blog. This movie had a couple of nice songs composed by debutant music director Aadesh Srivastava.
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Chanda re
Posted on: April 8, 2009
I have received a few farmaishes for the songs of “Lajwanti”.
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Chanda chamke gagan mein
Posted on: April 2, 2009
“Bahut Din Huye” (1954) had as many as 16 songs composed by two music directors. B S Kalla (14 songs) got the lion’s share whereas two songs were composed by E S Shastry.
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Chanda re mori patiya le jaa
Posted on: March 28, 2009
I have read a lot about this song, but believe me, it is only yesterday that I heard this song for the first time. And I loved this song instantly.
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