Archive for the ‘Dev Anand songs’ Category
Ye nayi nayi preet hai
Posted on: April 28, 2009
“Pocket Maar” (1956) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Geeta Bali. This movie had music by Madan Mohan. And that means one can expect some fine songs in this movie. And that is exactly what turns out to be the case.
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Khoya khoya chaand khulaa aasmaan
Posted on: April 27, 2009
By now I have posted more than a thousand songs from the golden era of Bollywood music. It can be easily noticed that lyrics played a very important roles in the success of these songs. In 1980s and later, lyrics lost its importance in the minds of the music directors and from that time onwards, songs lost their soul and their longevity. However great the singing and music may be, unless the singer and music director has a good song to work with, the song cannot hope to become popular.
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Dil ki umangen hain jawaan
Posted on: April 27, 2009
This is a rare song from “Munimji” (1954). So rare in fact that I heard this song for the first time only yesterday. 😉
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Aankhon mein kyaa ji
Posted on: April 25, 2009
There was one thing common between O P Nayyar and S D Burman in 1950s. Both did not work with Lata and used the voice of Asha Bhonsle instead. And that helped Asha Bhonsle’s career no end.
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Mera man tera pyaasaa
Posted on: April 23, 2009
I have posted one song from “Gambler”(1970) in the past. Somhow I keep confusing among the songs of “Gambler”, “Guide”, “Prem Pujari” etc. All these movies had Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman in them, if I am not mistaken, and all these movies had music by S D Burman.
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“Johny Mera Naam” (1970) was perhaps the last time a Dev Anand movie turned out to be very successful at box office, though “Des Pardes” (1978) was also successful.
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In 1950s and 1960s, most leading actors stuck to the some particualar playback singers, whose voices, they thought suited them. Thus we had Mukesh singing for Raj Kapoor, Rafi singing for Shammi Kapoor etc.
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Aap naaraaz Khuda khair kare
Posted on: April 19, 2009
I keep confusing among movies with names like “Pyaar Muhabbat” “Jawaan Muhabbat” “Pyaar Deewaana” etc. With great difficulty, I remind myself that one had Dev Anand, and another had Shammi Kapoor, and yet another had Kishore Kumar. Now which movie had which actor is something I cannot recall with any certainty.
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Phoolon ke rang se
Posted on: April 16, 2009
One reason why many old songs ( 1970s and earlier) are popular is of course to do with nice music in these songs. Moreover, the music directors ( there were many outstanding music directors at that time) recognised the value of lyrics. And they would wait for lyricists to write their songs.
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