Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Koi bataa de dil hai kahaan
Posted on: November 11, 2010
I have listened to this song many a times in my ignorant mode. By that I mean that I was totally ignorant about the details of the song, except the obvious details about the singers.
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Laut gayaa gham ka zamaanaa
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Most songs discussed in this blog are songs that are well known. Then there are songs that are lessser known. On the other end of the spectrum, there are songs which are so rare that not too many people are aware of their existence.
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I have not discussed a Shammi Kapoor style song in this blog for quite some time. No, it is not because I have run out of such songs. There are still many such songs that are yet to be covered.
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Balam dheere bol koi sun legaa
Posted on: November 2, 2010
In the past, I have discussed a couple of songs from “Basant” (1942) which is quite an important movie in the annals of Hindi movies, because this movie introduced Madhubala, who then was a young kid and was credited as baby Mumtaz.
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Sainyya chhod de bainyya
Posted on: November 1, 2010
In Hindi movies, we have teasing songs that are typically sung by male actors. I just realised that if there is a teaser, then there has to a a teased as well. and there are songs sung by teased as well. the teased lady would typically sing a song with words like “chhodo meri kalaayi”, “koi dekh legaa” etc etc.
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When I post songs in this blog, the easiest part is to find the song to post. I mostly stumble upon songs on youtube or dailymotion and decide to post the song. Sometimes, while posting songs based on farmaishes, I find that locating songs become the most difficult part, in case the song is an obscure song.
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I have mentioned it many a timers that the golden era of Hindi movie music had great music coming from everywhere. Not only well known movies with well known composers, even C grade movies with lesser known composers were creating great music those days. Many of these lesser known songs and movies have been forgotten with time. Looking for these forgotten song and listening to them (often for the first time) is a highly rewarding experience.
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Rajendra Kumar was known as Jubilee Kumar in his heydays and it is obvious that he must be having his huge fan following at that time. personally I was not his fan because he was just befotre my time.
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When I was a kid, I thought that most Hindi movie songs were love songs, and there were few songs of other categories. But now I know better. One can see that the Hindi movie songs fall into several categories. One song itself can belong to several categories.
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Ye samaa ye rut ye nazaare
Posted on: October 25, 2010
“Do Kaliyaan” (1968) is one of those movies that I have actually watched (albeit on TV) and the only thing I recall about this movie is that Baby Sonia (now known as Nitu Singh) had played a double role in this movie (and that is why this title called “Do Kaliyaan” viz “two buds”).
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