Archive for the ‘Dance song’ Category
Ghar aaya mera pardesi
Posted on: April 13, 2009
“Awaara” was one of the earlier movies of Raj Kapoor, and considering that it was produced nearly 60 years ago, the special effects and the grand sets of this movie are quite spectacular.
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kamar patli nazar bijli
Posted on: April 12, 2009
If one watched a bollywood movie in 1960s and 1970s, one was sure to have a Helen dance accompanied by a song. This song will have little relevance to the story line of the movie and Helen will not be found anywhere else in the movie, but her dance was still regarded as a major attraction of the movie.
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Aaja chhaaye kaare badra
Posted on: April 10, 2009
In 1950s, it was difficult to imagine a music director making his mark without using the voice of Lata. But there were two music directors who achieved this seemingly impossible feat. One was O P Nayyar who never used Lata’s voice in even once in his career. Another music director who stopped using Lata’s voice in 1950s was S D Burman.
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Gore gore o baanke chhore
Posted on: April 8, 2009
C Ramchandra, who brought Western music to Bollywood before anyone else has created some wonderful songs which remain popular with modern remix generation as well. Many of his songs created in 1940s and 1950s have been found worthy of remixing/ cover versioning, etc. But none of such musical cut pasting has ever come anywhere close to the original.
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Bach ke jaane na doongi dildaar
Posted on: April 7, 2009
Shammi Kapoor’s era lasted for the entire 1960s and “Prince” could well be called his last successful movie. His two subsequent movies as a hero (“Pagla Kahin Ka” and “Jawaan Mohabbat” did not do well).
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Kabhi aaj kabhi kal kabhi parson
Posted on: April 6, 2009
We have read a lot about how Suman Kalyanpur had a voice very similar to Lata and that affected her career big time.
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Hai kali kali ke lab par
Posted on: March 27, 2009
Talat Mehmood was trying his hands on acting in addition to playback singing in 1950s. His singing career suffered as a result. What is more, sometimes the music directors in movies where he acted would contemplate using the voice of some other singer for Talat Mehmood. That way, Talat Mehmood sometimes found himself in the same boat as Kishore Kumar.
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Ye duniya usiki jo pyaar karle
Posted on: March 23, 2009
Music director Ravi tended to deliver many hit songs in every movie where he was the music director. And he worked in more than 100 movies as a music director.
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Kaanha bajaaye bansari
Posted on: March 22, 2009
“Nastik” (1954) is known for some very nice memorable songs. The well known song “dekh tere sansaar ki haalat kya ho gayi sansaar” is from this very movie, which I have posted in this blog.
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When one listens to this song, and finds out that Shankar Jaikishan are the music directors and Hasrat Jaipuri the lyricist, then one can safely assume that this Rafi song is picturised on Shammi. And indeed, I have thought so about this song for more than four decades. It indeed seems to fulfil all the ingredients that one had in a Shammi Kapoor movie.
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