Archive for the ‘Mukesh-Lata duet’ Category
Zindagi ka ajab fasaanaa hai
Posted on: July 10, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
This is another beautiful ghazal from the film Chhoti Chhoti Baaten (1965), presented as a duet in this movie. The ghazal is sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar, and on screen, it is picturized on Moti Sagar and Manju. Moti Sagar plays the role of Motilal’s son in this movie. Motilal leaves his children and comes to live in a village. After some time, one of his sons, Moti Sagar, disillusioned with his own life in his own ways, also follows him and starts to live with his father in the village. Here, he falls in love with a village girls, Radha, played by actress Manju.
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Bahaaron thhaam lo ab dil
Posted on: May 12, 2011
Hindi movie scenario was so rich during the golden era that great music composers almost grew on trees. Some of them went on to become legends, but there were many great composers that failed to land sufficient number of assignments that their talents merited.
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“Parasmani” (1963) was a B grade Hindi movie of the kind that were typically passed over by the mainstream Hindi movie watchers. But this movie had such stunning music that people sat up and took notice. and the music may have brought substantially more number of people to the movie halls than what a typical B grade movie merited.
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Ham tum ye khoyee khoyee raahein
Posted on: April 7, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir,a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog.
The 1962 movie Rangoli has a bevy of most wonderful songs, some of which are already discussed in this blog. Here is a very soft and romantic duet from the same movie, beautifully sung by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. Lyrics are by Shailendra, and the composition is by Shanker Jaikishan.
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Ik baar agar tu kah de
Posted on: March 22, 2011
“Malhaar” (1951) is quite a musical blockbuster of its time which firmly established Roshan’s credentials as a high quality music director.
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Teri shokh nazar ka ishaaraa
Posted on: February 17, 2011
Lyrics for this song are provided by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of lyrics for this blog
By now, most music lovers who are a regular of this blog must have come to the same conclusion about Chitragupta as I have concluded- that he was a grossly underrated and underutilised music director. Most of his music was given in B movies which did not catch the attention of mainstream movie goers. But what music these movies had !
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The technology of recording Hindi movie songs in the earlier decades was not very advanced. It was not possible to use the same recording for both the movie as well as the record companies, so the same song was recorded twice- once for the movie sound track, and another time for the record company.
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I am aware about this movie called “Dillagi” (1949) which was replete with timeless evergreen songs. It turns out that there is another movie of the same name that was released in 1966.
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One of most memorable Dharmendra-Sharmila Tagore pairing was in the lovely family comedy “Chupke Chupke” (1975) where everyone, including the movie watchers have fun at the expense of Om Prakash, who plays Sharmila Tagore’s omniscient jeejaaji.
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“Sheesham” (1952) is a by now forgotten movie. This movie had Nasir Khan, Kuldeep, Nutan,Gope etc in it.
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