Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Jeenaa kyaa aji pyaar binaa
Posted on: June 11, 2010
Just like we these days lament the deterioration in the quality of Bollywood music, people used to lament about such deterioration even in the past. I personally thought that many of the songs of 1970s were pedestrial and chaalu songs. But now with the passage of time, when I came across far worse songs, then I realised that the so called poor songs of 1970s were gems in comparison.
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Tere bin soone nain hamaare
Posted on: June 10, 2010
I have posted as many as three outstanding songs from “Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen”(1963). I was not sure that these movie had more songs of the same calibre.
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Aao jhoomen gaayen
Posted on: June 8, 2010
I have recently created a page in this blog where readers can give their farmaishes for songs. The first farmaish sender is none other than Raja, who was also the first commentor of this blog in distant past (well just under two years ago).
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Bhar bhar aayen ankhiyaan
Posted on: June 8, 2010
“Samrat Chandragupta” (1958) is a by now forgotten movie which starred Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy in lead roles. But the songs of this movie are still remembered by music lovers who like to listen to old songs.
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I have posted as many as three songs from “Mr X in Bombay” (1964) already in this blog. The other songs from this movie, which are not yet posted are also wonderful songs.
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There have been several movies called “Kangan”. I just realised that I have not posted any songs from any of these movies. So here is a song from a C grade movie called “Kangan” (1959).
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I always get myself confused between “Aandhi” and “Mausam”. Both these movies were released in 1975 and both these movies had Sanjeev Kumar as the hero. And both these movies were music lovers’ delight. But the fact remains that the two movies were different movies, with different heroines, different music directors etc.
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Mil ke bhi ham mil na sake
Posted on: June 3, 2010
“Sunahri Naagin” (1963) was clearly inspired from “Naagin” (1963) except that “Sunahri Naagin” (1963) was a B grade movie and did not enjoy even a fraction of the success of “Naagin” (1954).
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I have listened to this song many times and liked it, but all this while I had no clue about its details. This is one of those songs that have gone on to get implanted on the psyche of those who grew up listening to this and other songs of those days.
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