Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Lag gayin ankhiyaan tumse mori
Posted on: February 19, 2011
“Jeewan Jyoti” (1953) is a movie that had Shammi Kapoor, Chand Usmani, Shashikala etc in it. Personally I am not much aware of this movie. In fact, I am not much aware of its songs too. Or so I thought. Just a few hours ago, I stumbled upon this song, which I had heard many a times without being aware of its details. This time I realised that this song was from “Jeewan Jyoti” (1953). In fact, I thought that this song, which is fairly well known, was already in this blog. But I was wrong in my assumption, of course.
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Babu bol kaisaa rokaa
Posted on: February 18, 2011
“Pyaase Panchhi” (1960) is a rather B grade movie where Mehmood was the hero opposite Ameeta. Going by the fact that Mehmood subsequently made his mark not as a hero but as a comedian, it appears to me that this movie may not have done well at the box office.
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“Nayi Raahein” (1959) is an obscure movie that few people today are aware of. This movie had Ashok Kumar and Geeta Bali in lead roles.
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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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There are songs in Hindi movies that I call philosophical songs. I just realised that calling them spiritual songs is a better description of those songs. So now I have opened a new tag, viz. “Spiritual song” tag for such songs.
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Chhedo dhun matwaalon ki
Posted on: February 16, 2011
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of writeups to this blog
I have talked before about the thrill of locating some of the less-known songs of your childhood days on the internet. You probably know just the first couple of lines, you may not even know any details more than this but you last heard the song in your childhood.
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Ae meri maut thahar
Posted on: February 16, 2011
I am not much familiar with this movie called “Paayal” (1957) even though I have already discussed two songs from this movie in the past. This movie had Sunil Dutt and Padmini in lead roles.
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Ulajh gaye do nainaa dekho
Posted on: February 8, 2011
Romantic songs/love songs are one of the most common form of songs in Hindi movies. It can be seen that many of these songs use high sounding grandiose words, whose meanings often escape the common listeners.
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Muskuraati huyi chaandni
Posted on: February 8, 2011
Listening to Hemant Kumar’s voice is a divine experience. Listening to songs sung by him has a soothing effect on the listeners. I call such songs “mental massage” songs.
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