Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs

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“Manoranjan” was a movie based on “Irma la douce”. Shammi Kapoor, the brain behind this movie, did not realise that the topic of this movie was far too alien for desi taste, and moreover, India audiences had yet to mature to appreciate any kind of music that was even slightly off the mainstream.
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Few people have heard the name of the movie and few people have heard this song. But this song “aao aao jaane jahaan” quickly grows up upon its listeners. I listened to this song from “Gomti Ke Kinnare” (1972) yesterday for the first time. During the first hearing, I wondered what the fuss was all about, but after listeneing to it a second time, I was hooked.
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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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There were talented music directors in Bollywood who failed to get enough opportunities to show their worth. Ganesh, the younger brother of Pyarelal ( of Laxmikant Pyarelal fame) was one such talent. The few opportunities that he got as music directors saw him give us a glimpse of his talent, but unfortunately his movies flopped taking the songs in their wake.
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“Paying guest” (1957) was one of those musical extravaganzas that were full of very nice songs. When I last counted, I have already posted 4 songs from this movie excluding this one, and there are still many more popular songs from this movie that remain to be posted.
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It is a song that I call as a “Tonga” song, and for good reasons. The music of O P Nayyar very much reminds one of a horse hoofing along merrily drawing the tonga along. And the picturisation actually shows a tonga with Kishore Kumar and Chand Usmani as its passengers.
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