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Bade hain dil ke kaale
Posted on: July 29, 2010
In Bollywood movies of 1950s and 1960s, we had “teasing” songs where the hero would tease the heroine, often too nastily in my view and get away with it, unlike how it is in real life in India, where “eve-teasing” is a serious offence.
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Ae baby ae ji idhar aao aa gayaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
“Love in Shimla” (1960), which predates all other “Love in …” movies in Bollwood was the debut movie of Sadhana and Joy Mukherji. And what a superb launch vehicle the two of them had got ! I have not watched the movie, but I have heard and watched a few songs of this movie, and if the songs are any indication, this movie was a great fun movie.
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I have not posted a song featuring Dev Anand, Madhubala and Helen for quite some time. To make amends, here is a song that features all the three !
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Here is a song from “Punar Milan” (1964). “Punar Milan” (1964) was a B grade movie and the makers of this movie saved money as far as hiring artists was concerned. Considering the talent available on the music scene, hiring talented out of work music director was not a problem, but hiring a lesser actor like Jagdeep as the hero of this movie proved counter productive.
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O chhaliyaa re chhaliyaa re
Posted on: July 23, 2010
In my bid to clear the backlog of old farmaishes, here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than one year back. Apart from my usual excuses for not being able to post it earlier (too many songs to be posted, I am too lazy etc), locating the video link of this song was a problem too. Now that I have been able to locate this song and I am trying to clear the backlog of farmaishes, here is this song from “Ganga Jamuna” (1961).
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Ye khaamoshiyaan ye tanhaayiyaan
Posted on: July 22, 2010
Here is a song whose farmaish was given by Raja more than a year back. And as often happens with me, I may have listened to this song in passing in the past, but it is only now that I have seriously listened to this song.
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Rickshey pe mere tum aa baithe
Posted on: July 17, 2010
Out of all the modes of public transport, tri wheeler Cycle rickshaw (popularly called Rickshaw) has been one of the most popular mode of transport of most Indians for several decades. This kind of rickshaw is ubiquitous in Indian cities even today, except in some metropilital cities where it is not allowed. You can see cycle rickshaw in Old Delhi, but not in New Delhi, for example.
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Bana de bana de bana de Prabhu ji
Posted on: July 15, 2010
In my series of songs from the movie “Phagun” (1958), here is the 11th and final song from the movie.
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Jaa jaa meri chhod de kalaayi
Posted on: July 10, 2010
In “Phagun”(1958), Not all songs were picturised on Bharat Bhushan and Madhubala.
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Main soyaa ankhiyaan meenche
Posted on: July 8, 2010
I am posting the songs of “Phaagun” (1958) these days. Here is another song from this movie.
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