Archive for the ‘Mukesh-Lata duet’ Category
Ik pyaar ka naghmaa hai
Posted on: July 24, 2009
“Shor” (1972) was a Manoj Kumar movie. Going by the usual over the top story lines of Manoj Kumar, this movie was apparently a better movie.
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This song from “Madhumati” (1958) is a magical song. I am mesmerised everytime I listen to this song.There is something magical about the music of this song that has elevated this song to a cult status. This song has become a favourite song among amateur singers who are called at the stage to sing a sing.
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Paani re paani tera rang kaisaa
Posted on: July 21, 2009
Manoj Kumar was one producer who knew the pulse of his target audience very well. And he made movies targetted at them.
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Jaane na nazar pahchaane jigar
Posted on: July 21, 2009
A boy and a girl, strangers to each other, who get wet in the rain, and are forced to stay the night together- this stuff leads to great romantic possibilities in Bollywood movies. It also leads to the possibilities of songs.
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Dheere dheere bol koi sun naa le
Posted on: July 18, 2009
Here is a song from “Gora aur Kaala” (1972). It was a popular song during its time.
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Aa ab laut chalen
Posted on: July 18, 2009
I have seen the movie “Jis Desh me Ganga bahti hai”(1960) but I was not paying attention and as such I do not remember much about this movie. So I had no information about the background of this song from this movie. Now I am told that this movie was about the dacoits of Chambal valley laying their arms and joining the mainstream of society. This song in fact exhorts them to come back to the society.
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Mahtaab teraa chehraa
Posted on: July 8, 2009
Mukesh is often regarded as an expert in singing sad songs. But he could bring out other emotions just as expertly in his singing.
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Door bahut aabaadi se
Posted on: July 5, 2009
“Jhoola” (1962) was a movie about which I had little idea. I thought that movies with this kind of title must be a movie of early 1950s when we had movies of similar sounding titles ( “Jhamela”, “Jhaanjhar” etc).
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Ae meri aankhon ke pahle sapne
Posted on: July 2, 2009
Once I had mentioned that Bollywood lullabies were mostly sung by female singers and there were hardly any lullabies sung by male singers.
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Kyaa saath meraa doge
Posted on: July 2, 2009
“Samundar” (1957) is a forgotten movie. It had Premnath as hero ( double role) and Bina Rai as heroine.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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