Archive for the ‘Children’s song’ Category
Tera khilaunaa tootaa baalak
Posted on: September 6, 2010
I have been posting songs from “Anmol Ghadi”(1946) these days. This movie was a monster hit during its time and its songs are popular even today. In this movie, most of the songs were sung by Noorjehaan, Suraiyya and Surendra (the three leading actors in the movie), but there were also songs sung by other singers viz Shamshad Begam and Zohrabai Ambalewaali.
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The revised writeup of this song is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this song.
As one looks back on the history of cinema, one finds that even the main line actors who are considered A grade, and the movies sell by their name, also end up acting in movies that are obscure and did not catch the attention at the box office. This movie, Ek Ka Baad Ek, from 1960, is one such movie of Dev Anand. By the time this movie was released, Dev Anand was an established and expensive star with a huge number of hits from the 1950s behind him. Then in 1960, he acted in this movie whose rest of the star cast included Sharda, Heeralal, Tarla, Prabhu Dayal, SK Prem, Radha Kishen, Madhu Apte, Ravi Kant etc. The actress Sharda mentioned here is the elder sister of actor Vinod Mehra, who made his mark on the screen about a decade and a half later. From the memoriam message displayed at the beginning of the movie, this is the last movie that the great actor Radhakishen appeared in. In fact this movie is produced by his son but unfortunately, Radhakishen himself could not live long enough to see its release.
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Chal mere ghode tik tik tik
Posted on: June 26, 2010
(This song review is by Greta (Memsaab) who recently reviewed this movie in her blog.)
I had no idea when I first saw and heard this enchanting song a week ago that it is an integral part of Indian childhood. In the wake of my movie review, many people commented that they knew and loved the song but hadn’t known that it was a film song. Not only is the music beautiful (I’m still singing the refrain over and over), but the picturization of it is sublime. I had to rewind and watch the song two or three times before I could move on to the rest of the film.
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Chanda mama mere dwaar aanaa
Posted on: March 31, 2010
It was one year ago that I had discovered “Lajwanti” (1958) and I discussed most songs of this movie in this blog. But there is one song that remained unposted because I could not find a video link of that song at that time.
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Gudiya hamse roothi rahogi
Posted on: January 7, 2010
While watching old movie songs, sometimes we come across kids with names sounding familiar to present day fans. And they tend to believe that these kids are the same TV/ movie personality they know. But that is not always the case.
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Bachpan ke din bhulaa naa denaa
Posted on: October 15, 2009
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I have posted a few songs from “Deedaar” (1951) but the most well known song from the movie is not one of them.
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Hamen un raahon par chalna hai
Posted on: September 28, 2009
The movie “Masoom” (1960) is known for the immortal song “Naani teri morni ko mor le gaye”.
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“Aa gale lag jaa” (1973) was a run of the mill movie, but it caught public imagination because of this particular song. This song had two versions. The grown up version was sung by Kishore Kumar and it was picturised on Shashi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore as a “nature song” -as it was picturised on hills. The other version of the song was a party song and it had a kid singing in addition to Kishore Kumar. Kishore Kumar once again sings for Shashi Kapoor whereas the kid Sushma Shreshtha sang for Master Tito.
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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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Indian movies give lots of importance to Maa (mother). She is the one who keeps the family together on the face of adversity. On good times, she is shown as a caring housewife and mother.
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