Archive for the ‘Rafi-Asha Bhonsle duet’ Category
In Bollywood movies, heroines take offers of help by the hero as signs of making passes on her, and she would feel righteously indignant about it. She would firmly refuse offers by the hero to help her.
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There were quite a few well known songs in “Bambai ka Babu” (1960) and I have posted several songs from this movie already.
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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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Tum apni saheli ko
Posted on: April 17, 2009
Prem Chopra was an actor who is “fondly” remembered for playing roles of a villainous smooth operator always lusting after the heroine.
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Mohabbat yoon bhi hoti hai
Posted on: April 2, 2009
If there are beaches, then why should there not be songs picturised on beaches. Of course there are such songs, even if they are far less in number than songs supposed to be picturised around trees. 😉
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Sach kahta hoon bahut haseen ho
Posted on: March 28, 2009
“Jaali Note” (1960), by now a forgotten movie had Dev Anand and Madhubala in lead roles. Moreover, it had music by O P Nayyar.
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Roothe rab ko manana aasaan hai
Posted on: March 16, 2009
“Majboor” was one of the earlier movies of Amitabh Bachchan before his superstardom days. This movie had him playing a more believable role of a normal human being with weaknesses, rather than the larger than life hero he soon became.
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Jis din se maine tumko dekha hai
Posted on: March 13, 2009
This is one song that I just loved listening to as a kid. It is a wonderful song sung by Rafi.
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“Shatranj” (1969) was a movie that flopped at the box office, even though it has Jubilee Kumar (Rajendra Kumar) in the lead role alongwith Waheeda Rahman.
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Ik pardesi mera dil le gaya
Posted on: March 10, 2009
“Naagin” song has the most well known “been” tune in Bollywood music, but this “been” music in this song from “Phaagun” (1958) is just as wonderful.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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