Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Ye toone kyaa kahaa
Posted on: June 25, 2009
If this song is not known to too many people then the listeners cannot be blamed. This song is from a C grade movie called “Insaaf”(1966).
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Here is a fun song from a movie called “Bewaqoof” (1960). In this movie Kishore Kumar and Pran are seen monkeying around.
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Hamse nain milaana BA paas karke
Posted on: June 25, 2009
What does one expect when Raja Mehdi Ali Khan is the lyricist , Madan Mohan is the music director and Mukesh is the singer ? One sad song par excellence ?
Not necessarily.
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Tu husn hai main ishq hoon
Posted on: June 24, 2009
The songs of “Hamraaz” (1968) were all over the place in 1968. This movie was Mahendra Kapoor’s finest hour under the sun as a playback singer.
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Dabe labon se kabhi jo koyi
Posted on: June 23, 2009
I stumble upon so many “new” songs from yesteryears that I have stopped getting surprised. I am just pleased every time I get to listen to such songs for the first time.
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Meri raaton ka mahtaab tu hai
Posted on: June 22, 2009
I have mentioned it that finding any information about music director Ganesh is extremely difficult, even though almost every song that he composed is a gem.
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This song is a quintessential “villain’s den” party song that we tended to have in Bollywood movies of 1970s. In most of these songs, the hero and heroine would enter villain’s high security party as the lead singers/dancers yet the villains would remain in the dark till the song is over.
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Chaahe paas ho chahe door ho
Posted on: June 21, 2009
It is a very well known song from an obscure movie called “Samrat Chandragupta” (1958). Considering that this movie was a historical/ mythological fare, it must have been a B grade movie. Kalyanji was the music director of this movie. This must have been his debut movie as a music director. Later he roped in his younger brother Anandji to form their music director partnership of Kalyanji Anandji in subsequent movies.
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