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The movie “Call Girl”‘ (1974) is all but forgotten now, and even the music directors Sapan Jagmohan failed to make it big, but one song from this movie “ulfat me zamaane ki har rasm ko thukraao” became reasonably popular.
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Chaand ke paas jo sitaara hai
Posted on: February 20, 2009
Just a few days back, I had commented that Bollywood movie songs containing the word “Chaand” which were quite frequent till 1960 had become conspicuous by their absence in the later decades.
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During 1970s, when I would try to tune radio Ceylon on wednesday night between 8 PM to 9 PM, tuning to the desired station was not as easy as it is for TV stations. There were so many radio stations on the same 25 metre band and getting a clear reception of Radio Ceylon, while avoiding voices of Voice of America, BBC etc was quite an art.
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“Paraya Dhan” was a 1971 movie which had Rakesh Roshan and Hema Malini in lead roles.The movie is hardly remembered today, but R D Burman, who was on top those days, came up with great songs in this movie.
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Gir gaya jhumka girne do
Posted on: February 9, 2009
In India, most couples have arranged marriages, but you could not realise that by watching Bollywood movies, where every hero and his sidekick seemed to fall in love and sing romantic songs. To the credit of Bollywood actors, a few on screen lovers of Bollywood movies actually tied the knots too. Examples being Amitabh-Jaya, Rishi Kapoor-Neetu Singh etc.
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It was a much loved song when it first started playing on loudspeakers and radio. And as happened with many songs of those days, it was soon forgotten, though it was one song that was very cute and adorable to listen to.
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Jeewan ki bagiya mahkegi
Posted on: January 18, 2009
I have mentioned it that Bollywood heroines of 1970s were averse to playing roles of mothers lest they be regarded as over the hill. In fact, they would often refuse roles where they were shown getting married.
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“Haathi mere Saathi” (1971) was a movie that was meant specifically for kids. And I happened to be a kid those days. Needless to say, I loved this movie.
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Nainon mein darpan hai
Posted on: January 15, 2009
This is a duet sung by Lata and Kishore Kumar,two of the biggest names among playback singers. But the same cannot be said about the lyricist and the music director, both of whom were debutants. Maya Govind was the lyricist. She was arguably the first female lyricist in Bollywood. Bhupen Hazarika, known more for his playback singing was the music director of this movie.
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Gore rang pe na itna gumaan kar
Posted on: January 8, 2009
It has been a quite a while since I last posted a Rajesh Khanna-Mumtaz song. So I present one more such song.
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