Archive for the ‘“chaand” song’ Category
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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Jaa jaa re chanda jaa re
Posted on: March 26, 2009
The movie “Private Secretary” (1962) is not one that is known to too many people. Prem Dhawan was the lyricist and this movie had someone called Dilip Dholakiya as the music director.
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Chanda mama door ke
Posted on: March 26, 2009
Translation and comments on the lyrics have been provided by Sudhir
“Vachan” was Ravi’s debut movie as a music director. I have said it that Ravi was a music director who created a large number of iconic songs, which have become immortal. And Ravi began proving that right from his debut movie.
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Chaand jaise mukhde pe
Posted on: March 15, 2009
The movie “Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster, and its songs became very popular among its target audience, viz audience who watched non mainstream ( read Amitabh Bachchan kind of action movies) movies which were made on shoestring budget with unknown faces.
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