Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Ham aur tum aur ye samaa
Posted on: November 19, 2009
I am aware of two movies called “College Girl”. One was a movie of early 1960s featuring Shammi Kapoor. The other was a movie of late 1970s featuring Sachin. Though both these movies are forgotten, both of them had some nice songs in them.
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“Mere Jeewan Saathi” (1972) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja, the hit pair of “Haathi Mere Saathi”. This movie, like most Rajesh Khanna movies, was a musical blockbuster, where almost all songs went on to become very popular.
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Tumhe dil se chaahaa
Posted on: November 15, 2009
When I decide to post a song, most of my time is taken to get the lyrics right. There are some people who inform me that one can get lyrics of the songs on internet. Like most well meaning (and uninformed and unsolicited) advises, this information is not backed by facts.
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“Sanam” (1951) was a movie that had Dev Anand, Suraiyya, Meena Kumari,K N Singh and Gope in main roles. It is interesting to note that this movie was the last movie of Dev Anand and Suraiyya together.
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Dar laage duniyaa se balmaa ho
Posted on: November 13, 2009
It may be difficult to imagine today, but villains like Premnath and Ajit started their filmy careers as heroes in late 1940s-early 1950s, and they in fact acted as heroes for almost a decade before becoming villains. As far as Premnath was concerned, he was a hero in A grade movies too.
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In bahaaron mein akele na phiro
Posted on: November 12, 2009
The reasons why the songs from the golden era of Bollywood music (circa 1950-1980) still retain their magic
are-
(1) the creators of these songs devoted time and energy to create them
(2) the creators were extremely talented and committed
(3) the listeners of these songs did not have too many other means of entertainment so they too listened to these songs with interest and by paying undivided attention.
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“Dhool Ka Phool” (1959) is a movie that has some very nice songs in it. I have posted a few songs and more songs from this movie are need to be posted here.
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Jaa tose nahin boloon Kanhaiyya
Posted on: November 11, 2009
I have posted a couple of songs from “Parivaar” (1956) in the past, and they were classy songs of different genres, even though they have been forgotten.
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Though boy and girl falling in love and singing love songs is a standard theme in Bollywood movies, such an activity is not as easy to carry out in real life India as is made out in Bollywood movies. Most real life lovers have to carry out their love lives on the sly , away from the family and public lives.
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