Archive for the ‘Drunkard song’ Category
Chhoo lene do naazuk honthon ko
Posted on: March 2, 2009
Ravi has composed iconic songs on just about any topic under the sun. So it should not come as any surprise that one of the most memorable drunkard song has been composed by Ravi.
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Maine peena seekh liya
Posted on: February 14, 2009
Rafi has sung many drunkard songs in his career. And they were mainly picturised on Raj Kumar, Dev Anand etc. I was not aware that Rafi had sung a drunkard song for Rajendra Kumar too.
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Rangeela re
Posted on: February 10, 2009
I have posted songs of many categories in this blog. One of these categories is called drunkard songs. This song is a drunkard song, but with a difference. Here , it is a lady that gets drunk and then she sings this song. It is nice to see that women’s lib had taken place in drunkard songs as early as 1967.
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Saawan ke maheene mein
Posted on: February 4, 2009
Like most people, I too thought that “Sharaabi” was a movie of 1984 with Amiabh Bachchan and Jaya Prada in it and with the music of Bappi Lahiri.
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It is a very long song, which is one second short of 10 minutes long. And the song is so nice to listen to that these 9:55 minutes pass in a trice. Initially Asha Bhonsle sings the song and towards the second half of the song, Kishore Kumar makes a cameo appearance.
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Ye laal rang kab mujhe chhodegaa
Posted on: January 30, 2009
This song is indeed the reason why we remember this movie called “Prem Nagar” to this date. The movie, which turned out to be a box office disaster despite boasting of the biggest names of the industry viz Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini, had a story line that failed to appeal to the movie goers.
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This song is a festival song, a “holi” song to be precise. Everyone is seen with some gulaal applied on their faces, and Rajesh Khanna is seated with Asrani. Rekha, with gulaal applied on her cheeks as well, comes with a lota full of bhang and pours Asrani some of it. Rajesh Khanna also proffers his glass forward. Rekha, not interested in pouring him the intoxicant, thrusts the lota on Rajesh Khanna’s hands and departs on a huff, only to be stopped on her tracks when a song begins.
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Rafi has sung songs of many genres. When it came to drunkard songs, he began to sing such songs in 1960s. Most of these drunk songs tended to be sung for Raj Kumar,but he sang such songs for other actors too.
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In earlier days, Bollywood movies had specialists doing specialised kind of work. Villains would commit the dark deeds, comedians would make people laugh, hero would do his herogiri etc.
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