Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
The word “Chaand” and its derivatives were quite common in Bollywood movies till 1970s, after which man reached the moon and mankind ( including Bollywood lyricists) would no longer look at “Chaand” with the same fascination.
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I was not even aware that there was a Dev Anand movie called “Mahal”(1969). Of course I have heard the songs of this movie, without being aware that the song I was listening to was from this movie.
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Ye nayi nayi preet hai
Posted on: April 28, 2009
“Pocket Maar” (1956) was a movie starring Dev Anand and Geeta Bali. This movie had music by Madan Mohan. And that means one can expect some fine songs in this movie. And that is exactly what turns out to be the case.
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Dekh liyaa maine
Posted on: April 28, 2009
This is a song from “Deedaar” (1951). This song is sung by Rafi and Lata.
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Dar naa muhabbat kar le
Posted on: April 28, 2009
I have not watched “Andaaz” (1949). What I know is that this movie had over a dozen songs, and almost everyone of these songs was extremely popular.
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“Mujhko thand lag rahi hai mujhse door tu na jaa” was just the kind of “naughty” song that kids like me loved to listen to when this song first appeared on the airwaves in 1971. I incidentally did not know any details about this song. With time, this song was forgotten. I rediscovered this song again just a few months back. This time I learnt more details about this song.
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Neend churaake raaton mein
Posted on: April 27, 2009
“Johny Mera Naam” where Hema Malini had worked opposite Dev Saab was a big success. Encouraged by that, several movies were planned with the two.
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Aankhon mein kyaa ji
Posted on: April 25, 2009
There was one thing common between O P Nayyar and S D Burman in 1950s. Both did not work with Lata and used the voice of Asha Bhonsle instead. And that helped Asha Bhonsle’s career no end.
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Patta patta boota boota
Posted on: April 24, 2009
How many people are aware of a movie called “Ek Nazar” ? People may not be aware of such a movie, but there were in fact not one but two movies of such a name. One was released in 1957 and it had a few nice Talat Mahmood songs under the music direction of Ravi. Then there was another movie of this name in 1972, and it too had a nice song, which is the song under discussion here.
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Na ye zameen thi na aasmaan tha
Posted on: April 24, 2009
I am a big fan of Ravi, the underestimated music director of the golden era of Bollywood movie music. He was an extremely prolific music director who began his career in 1950s and worked upto 1990. And he has left us countless great songs, many of them timeless classics. In fact, most iconic songs of Bollywood have been his creations.
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