Archive for the ‘Female drunkard song’ Category
“Seeta Aur Geeta” (1972) was a Sippy Films Production. It was produced by G P Sippy and directed by Ramesh Sippy. The movie had Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Pratima Devi, Manorama, Satyen Kappoo, Karan Dewan, Kamal kapoor, Master Alankar Joshi, Ratnamala, Master Ripple, Radhika Rani, Keshav Rana, Mushthaq Merchant, Honey Irani, Roopesh Kumar, Dev Kishen, Ashoo, Asrani, Dulari, Master Ravi, Asit Sen, Harbans Darshan. M. Arora, Abhi Bhattacharya, Suresh, Deepak, M.B.Shetty etc in it.
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“Anarkali” (1953) was a Filmistan production movie. It was directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal. Pradeep KUmar and Bina Rai played the lead roles in this movie. Mubarak, Kuldip Kaur, Sulochana, S. L. Puri, Manmohan Krishna, Noorjahan etc were the other actors in this movie.
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Aa ra ra ra ra ra main to giri re
Posted on: October 4, 2012
“Post Box 999” (1958) was a Nagina Films Production. It was directed by Ravindra Dave. The movie had Sunil Dutt, Shakila, Leela Chitnis, Amarnath, Tiwari, Krishnakant, Purnima, Mirza Musharraf, Ramesh Sinha, Manorama, Gulab etc in it.
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“Ye Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke” (1963) was based on a true incident,namely the case of K M Nanawati, though the makers of this movie issued an disclaimer that all people and incidents depicted in the movie were fictional, which fooled nobody.
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Aankhon se maine pee hai
Posted on: October 3, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
A wonderful, but scarcely heard melody this one. As I am scouting for more songs composed by Usha Khanna, I came across this gem of a song from the film Flat No. 9, in my collection. As I heard it again, after a long time, I simply had to send it in for posting right away. We have already discussed three songs of this film, and each one is turning out to be a melody that should have commanded more popularity and listening time on the radio waves. Alas, there are obscure films and unheard songs that are almost lost. But play them, and the music lover’s heart will fill with appreciation, and also wonder, ‘where was this song so far’.
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I have mentioned it that drunkard songs, in which an actor is seen getting drunk and singing asong is mainly a preserve of male actors. On the other hand, a woman getting drunk and making a spectacle of herself is considered rather unheard of. That is why one rarely finds songs in which female actors are seen singing drunkard songs.
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Tumhi rehnumaa ho meri zindagi ke
Posted on: March 18, 2011
Early 1970s had seen some non mainstream movies made on “bold” subjects. The movie watchers, as well as the movie critics were not mature enough to appreciate these movies. These movies were badly panned by the critics and such movies flopped. “Dastak”, “Chetna” and ‘Do Raahaa” were a few such movies.
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Hoon abhi main jawaan ae dil
Posted on: September 21, 2010
I thought that a woman getting drunk and singing a drunkard song in an Indian movie began only in 1960s, but I was wrong. This began in 1950s itself.
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In Bollywood movies, getting drunk and singing drunkard song was considered the preserve of males (viz Devdas etc). Ladies getting drunk and making a spectacle of themselves was a strict no no.
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Dil jale to jale
Posted on: July 14, 2009
“Taxi Driver” (1954) is too old a movie for much of the present day music lovers. Still, its songs continue to charm people even today.
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