Archive for the ‘Comedy song’ Category
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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My readers must have noticed that these days I am concentrating a lot on discussing songs of certain particular artists. And then all of a sudden, I start discussing the songs of some other artist.
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Sa sa sa sa re
Posted on: February 23, 2011
This post is written by Raja,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog
A couple of days back I got to see the movie Naughty Boy (1962). It is a comedy starring Kishore Kumar and Kalpana (often remembered as the heroine singing “main chali main chali” with Shammi Kapoor in Professor, or the object of Dev Anand’s “arrey yaar meri tum bhi ho ghazab” in Teen Deviyan).
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I keep stumbling against unknown and unheard of gems almost every day. Look what I discovered just now !
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Aankhon mein tum dil mein tum ho
Posted on: January 30, 2011
- In: "Aankh" song | Actor-Singer song | Comedy song | Duet | expression of love | Feelings of heart | Geeta Dutt songs | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar's comedy songs | Kishore Kumar-Geeta Dutt duet | Romantic song | Songs of 1960s (1961 to 1970) | Songs of 1962 | Yearwise breakup of songs
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“Half Ticket” (1962) is a much loved comedy movie starring Kishore Kumar, Madhubala and Pran.
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Johny Walker was perhaps the first non Hero who began to have songs picturised on him on a regular basis. Many of these songs became very popular.
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It is popularly belived that the use of Hinglish words (Hindi and English words combined) began in Hindi movies only in 1980s and it met with the disapproval of purists. But in reality, such Hinglish songs have been there from 1940s itself. Who can forget the evergreen song Aana meri jaan meri jaan sunday ke sunday from “Shehnaayi” (1947).
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Gentleman gentleman gentleman
Posted on: December 11, 2010
On the occasion of Dilip Kumar’s birthday (11th december), I am posting some songs picturised on Dilip Kumar. Here is an interesting fun song from “Gopi” (1970).
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- In: "Sales pitch" song | Blog century song | Century songs for the blog | Comedy song | Duet | Kishore Kumar songs | Kishore Kumar's comedy songs | Shamshad Begam songs | Shamshad Begam-Kishore Kumar duet | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1956 | Stage song | Yearwise breakup of songs
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I have no idea if chana jor, moongphali etc are still sold today on street by vendors. Personally I have not seen such vendors for the past few decades, so chances are, such vendors are on the verge of extinction, if not already extinct.
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“Ham Sab Chor Hain” (1956) was a light hearted movie which was written and directed by I S Johar. This movie had some interesting comedy songs in it that are nice to listen to.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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