Archive for the ‘Club song’ Category
Ham pe ilzaam ye kyun hai
Posted on: July 19, 2011
Here is a Helen song with a difference.In this song, Helen is not performing a cabarat or even a mujra. Rather she is emoting like a “normal” actress. Yes, Helen had a big enough role in this movie called “Kahin Din Kahin Raat” (1968).
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Suno jaanaa suno jaanaa
Posted on: March 15, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Think of Sheikh Mukhtar, the hero of so many ‘Dada’ and ‘Ustad’ movies, the proverbial angry young man of the 50s and 60s ‘B’ screen Hindi movies long before Amitabh got that tag in the 70s and 80s. Now think of the same he-man in a skirt dress and bob cut hair? And dancing the twist, and pat-a-cake, no less?
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Aayiye meharbaan
Posted on: March 7, 2011
My regular visitors may have noticed that these days I tend to discuss several songs of some particular artists and then my preference of artists suddenly undergoes a change. I had discussed the method behind this madness in an earlier post.
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Aa sapne tujhe bulaayen
Posted on: March 4, 2011
“Hamdard” (1953) is a movie that starred Nimmi,Shekhar, Smriti Biswas and others. The movie had some nice songs in it. I have discussed two songs from this movie in the past.
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I had heard this song a lot during its time. this song was a regular song in Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation’s “aaphi ke geet” programme broadcast in the morning from 8 AM to 9 AM. In addition, this song was a popular loudspeaker song as well.
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Aag lagaanaa kyaa mushqil hai
Posted on: November 30, 2010
Party songs/club songs where a female dancer sings and dances became a staple diet of Hindi movies in 1950s. Geeta Dutt was one of the first (if not the first) singer who sang such songs. As for the actors on whom such songs were picturised, there were many, ranging from dancers (Cuckoo, for instance) to heroines (Geeta Bali, for instance). Quite a few of these songs became very popular.
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O meri jaan maine kahaa
Posted on: September 29, 2010
In this blog, most of the songs that I post are from the era prior to 1970. In reality, I grew up as a Hindi movie music listener from late 1960s and entire 1970s, and in those days I liked new songs, which meant songs from 1968 onwards.
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Kyaa ho jo din rangeelaa ho
Posted on: September 26, 2010
“Nau Do Gyaarah” (1957) is a suspense movie starring Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik etc and the movie is directed by Vijay Anand.
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By 1980s, the lyrics of Hindi movie songs had become much more functional and basic. In many cases, the songs of that era virtually dispensed with the need of any meaningful lyrics and managed with gibberish passing for lyrics.
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