Archive for the ‘Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet’ Category
“Love In Shimla” (1960) has a song that is basically a recitation of the Urdu alphabet that goes “Alif Zabar aa alif zer ae alif pesh o” which is sort of like ” A se anaar aa se aam” of Hindi or “A for apple B for Bat…” in English. For one who has studied Urdu, writing down the lyrics of this song would be a cakewalk. I am not familiar with the Urdu alphabet and as a result, the lyrics of this song is Greek (rather Urdu) to me. I had planned to post this song in the past, but I could not do so mostly because I was unable to follow the lyrics.
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Music plays a very important part in Bollywood movies. In many movies of the past, it is the music that helped these movies and their actors get popular with the public. That way, most of the popular actors of those days owe much of their popularity to the music of the movies they acted in.
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Tiki riki tiki riki taakuri
Posted on: May 25, 2010
One normally associates Ghazals and serious songs with Madan Mohan, but that does not mean that Madan Mohan could not create other kinds of songs, including light hearted songs. One certainly does not associate a Helen-Asha Bhonsle party song with Madan Mohan, but here is one such song.
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Sau baras ki zindagi se achche hain
Posted on: May 15, 2010
These days I am looking back into the past posts that I have posted over the last twenty odd months. While reading them up as well as reading the comments, I am getting information and ideas for “new” songs to post.
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“Bairaag” (1976) is one of the last movies where Dilip Kumar is seen as a hero. And as happened with heroes well past the conventionally accepted age of playing Bollywood heroes, he is paired up with Leena Chandawarkar here, who was nearly half the age of Dilip Saab at that time.
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Pyaar to ik din honaa thaa
Posted on: May 1, 2010
I had vaguely heard about this movie called “Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimati” (1969) but I was not aware of this song. I heard (and watched) this song for the first time just a few hours ago.
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Music director Ravi (full name Ravishankar Sharma) does not occupy as much mindshare in public mind as many other music directors of the golden era of Bollywood movie music do . Many younger music lovers in fact ask “Ravi who ?” when his name crops up in discussions.
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“Mr Qartoon MA” (1958) is a movie which has been forgotten with time. Here is a song from this movie.
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Hamsafar saath apna chhod chale
Posted on: March 29, 2010
I have posted a few songs from “Aakhri Daao” (1958) but this was one song that was not there. So here is this song.
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Dareeche shaq dareeche shaq
Posted on: January 11, 2010
I had never heard about this movie called “Ek Thi Reeta” (1971). This obscure movie had Vinod Mehra and Tanuja in lead roles.
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