Archive for the ‘Duet’ Category
Gore gore o baanke chhore
Posted on: April 8, 2009
C Ramchandra, who brought Western music to Bollywood before anyone else has created some wonderful songs which remain popular with modern remix generation as well. Many of his songs created in 1940s and 1950s have been found worthy of remixing/ cover versioning, etc. But none of such musical cut pasting has ever come anywhere close to the original.
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Bach ke jaane na doongi dildaar
Posted on: April 7, 2009
Shammi Kapoor’s era lasted for the entire 1960s and “Prince” could well be called his last successful movie. His two subsequent movies as a hero (“Pagla Kahin Ka” and “Jawaan Mohabbat” did not do well).
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Kabhi aaj kabhi kal kabhi parson
Posted on: April 6, 2009
We have read a lot about how Suman Kalyanpur had a voice very similar to Lata and that affected her career big time.
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Tumhaari nazar kyun khafaa ho gayi
Posted on: April 4, 2009
This song is from “Do Kaliyaan” though I was not aware of this fact when I used to listen to this popular song on loudspeakers during my younger days. Needless to say, I was not aware who were the actors on whom this song was picturised.
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Dil pukaare aare aare
Posted on: April 4, 2009
“Jewel Thief” (1967) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Vyjyanti Mala.
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Chhod bedardi aanchal
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is another song which I heard a lot in my young days, and liked it, before this song got forgotten.
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Ek tera saath
Posted on: April 3, 2009
This is a movie called “Wapas” (1969). It had Ajay and Alka in lead roles.
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Aigo aigo aigo ye kya ho gaya
Posted on: April 3, 2009
Here is a fun song from “Boyfriend” (1961) that I was intending to post for quite some time, but I was unable to do so earlier.
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Resham ki dori
Posted on: April 2, 2009
When one speaks about “Saajan”, most people think of the 1989 movie of this name which had some very nice songs composed by Nadeem Shrawan.
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O lootnewaale duniya ko
Posted on: April 2, 2009
I was aware of movies called “Dushman” featuring K L Saigal in 1938 and Rajesh Khanna in 1971. But it appears that there was a third “Dushman” too which was released in 1957 and it had Dev Anand in lead role.
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