Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Hamaari gali aana
Posted on: September 11, 2009
“Mem Sahib”(1956) was a delightful movie that is guaranteed to warm the cockles of the listeners and watchers of this movie. This lovely movie had Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari ( in a bubbly role), and Shammi Kapoor.
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This movie “Meri Bhaabhi” (1969) is an obscure movie despite boasting of names like Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rehman. This tear jerker movie was obviously a failure at the box office when it was released.
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It is difficult to associate Guru Dutt with anything but a sad song, that too in a movie like “Pyyasa”. But it is a fact that he does not just sing melancholic songs in this movie. He sings romantic songs as well, difficult though it may be to believe.
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Here is a song from a lesser known movie called “Ek Paheli” (1971).
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O arabpati ki chhori
Posted on: September 9, 2009
This is a rare song, and a fabulous song. In fact, for long I was thinking of posting this song as one of my century scoring songs ( yes, I am approaching another century), but then I decided that there are far too many great songs lying there and if I keep them in abeyance waiting for them to be posted as century making songs then I may have to wait far too long.
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Yesterday I posted a wonderful song from Devdas (1955) which I had heard many a times, though without realising that it was a song from this movie. Here is another song from this movie that I never heard in my life till today !
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Chappa chappa charkha chale
Posted on: September 8, 2009
“Maachis” (1996) had two songs that I was aware of and which I liked. I have posted one of them yesterday. Here is the second song from this movie.
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Though this song is from a movie of 1961, I first heard this song just a few days ago. And since then, I have come to the conclusion that this song must be one of the greatest songs created in Bollywood movies. And I am really surprised that this song is not all that well known. A song like this should form part of all the “all time classics” that music companies come up with periodically.
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Now I have listened to this many a times, but I did that without paying much attention and without knowing any details about it.
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Do ankhiyaan jhuki jhuki si
Posted on: September 7, 2009
I have discovered that “Prempatra” (1962) is a movie that had some sweet melodious songs in it that were composed with loving care by Salil Chaudhary.
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