Archive for the ‘Club song’ Category
“Mr X in Bombay” (1964) is a treasure of wonderful songs. I have already posted 5 songs from it.
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I have posted a few songs from “Asli Naqli” (1962) in the past. This movie had Dev Anand and Sadhana in lead roles.
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Tiki riki tiki riki taakuri
Posted on: May 25, 2010
One normally associates Ghazals and serious songs with Madan Mohan, but that does not mean that Madan Mohan could not create other kinds of songs, including light hearted songs. One certainly does not associate a Helen-Asha Bhonsle party song with Madan Mohan, but here is one such song.
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“Aakhri Khat” (1966) has the distinction of being Rajesh Khanna’s debut movie. It was truly a different kind of a movie, not the usual mainstream Bollywood movie.
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When we think about actors, we have certain images for them in our minds. For instance, when we think of Nadira, we think about a no nonsense lady always wearing a disapproving frown on her face. And it is difficult for us to magine her singing song.
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Though most songs in Bollywood movies are based on desi values, there are “westernised” songs in Bollywood as well. They are mainly songs which are sung in clubs/ parties, and are often accompanied by dance, either by someone like Helen, or a party dance where several people are seen dancing “phoren” style.
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Ae dil tu na dar iss jahaan se
Posted on: November 1, 2009
In 1950s, there were a few movies where Johny walker was the hero and O P Nayyar was the music director. One of these movies was in fact called “Johny Walker”.
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Ye raatein nayi puraani
Posted on: July 9, 2009
I have posted over a thousand songs in this blog. Despite that, there are many popular and well known movies whose songs have yet to find places in this blog.
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O beqadar bedardi
Posted on: May 18, 2009
I have mentioned it in the past that “Desh Premi” (1982) was one Manmohan Desai movie that I liked a lot. To my mind, it was a nice and entertaining movie.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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