Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Tera muskuraanaa banaa ik fasaanaa
Posted on: March 6, 2011
Recently reader Sudhir likened my knack of discovering musical gems to going into a coal mine and stumbling upon diamonds. It is a good comparison, and I in fact feel that the likelihood of coming up with musical diamonds in the metaphorical musical coal mine is far more, seeing how many of them I discover on a regular basis. I in fact liken it to walking on a beach, and coming across these gems lying undiscovered.
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Haseenon ki sawaari hai
Posted on: March 5, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor to this blog.
Atul ji has already posted two hand rickshaw songs, both of them performed by Mehmood. Here is a third song in this category, in which the rickshaw puller is Joy Mukherjee and the lady passenger is Sadhna. The movie is Love In Simla.
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O jee o hamen aaj koi na chhediyo
Posted on: March 5, 2011
This article is written by Sudhir, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
With this post I am requesting Atul ji to add a new and peculiar category to this blog. This is a song sung on a ‘thhelaa’; and as far as I can recall, this is the only ‘thhelaa’ song in Hindi movies.
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Using the word “Chaand” in the lyrics, if done carefully, has the effect of making the song a nice romantic song. and if the title of the movie itself is “Chaand”, and the song is picturised on a “chaandni raat” (full moon light), then the effect is incredible and it leads to the kind of songs that I describe as a “Chaayaageet” songs.
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Lo aaye jhoom ke pilpili
Posted on: March 4, 2011
After a somewhat longer wait than usual, here is that occasion again when this blog reaches a century and we celebrate it by discussing a special song ! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the 3600th song of this blog !
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Bhool jaa sapne suhaane bhool jaa
Posted on: March 4, 2011
I find that today I am discussing obscure songs from obscure movies that few people may be aware of. Here is another such song.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
As far as I know, Sasural (1961) was a pretty big hit. Produced by Prasad Productions and directed by LV Prasad, it starred Rajendra Kumar and B Saroja Devi.
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Sun mere saajnaa re
Posted on: March 3, 2011
When I was a young kid, I was into new songs (which meant songs of 1970s) and I disliked listening to old songs. I wondered why the older singers could not sing songs like the newer songs, and why the music of these two songs were not jazzy like the new songs.
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Agar teri jalwaa numaayee na hoti
Posted on: March 2, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of write ups to this blog.
In the late 1940s/early 1950s, South Indian production houses began making films in Hindi. AVM Productions became very well-known with their runaway hit, Bahar in 1951. This was based on a superhit Tamil film and was the movie that launched Vyjanthimala in Hindi movies.
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Dhoondhhe nazar nazar
Posted on: March 2, 2011
“Dilli Ka Dada” (1962) is a quintessential B grade movie starring Sheikh Mukhtaar, Shekhar,Sahira,Nishi etc.
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