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Haan maine bhi pyaar kiyaa
Posted on: January 16, 2011
This article is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular contributor of articles to this blog
I think I will not be entirely wrong if I say that one of the reasons songs appeal to all of us is not just because of the song itself. This may be true for a large majority of songs but I am sure each one of us has his or her own bouquet of songs that are special mainly of memories these songs represent.
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“Champakali” (1957) is a movie which is known to music lovers for its iconic song Chhup gaya koyi re door se pukaar ke). All these days, this song was all I knew about this movie.
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“Bahu” (1953) is an obscure movie by now. Like many obscure movies of those days, even this movie has some nice and wonderful songs in it that not too many people know about. Stumbling upon such songs is always a rewarding experience.
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During the golden era of Hindi movie music (circa 1950-1980), things were quite simple and rudimentary in most fields. Hindi movie songs tended to become popular only if the movie did better, and the movies did better only if they followed certain set formulaes. Movies that tended to deviate from the standard formulae tended to fail and as a result, the songs of such movies too would suffer.
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I have mentioned it several times that there are lots of songs that I know nothing about. I get to know about them either on my own while I stumble upon them, or through the farmaishes of my knowledgeable readers.
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Agar mujhse muhabbat hai
Posted on: January 10, 2011
I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song long back, and so I was surprised to know that I was wrong. I do not know how I missed discussing this song in the past.
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Here is yet another of those songs that I thought I had already discussed in this blog but I was wrong. This is a memorable rail song and I have discussed this song alright, but that was in another forum/blog while I was discussing rail songs.
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I was under the impression that I had already discussed this song in the past. It turns out that I have discussed as many as three songs from this movie, but not this one.
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“Mehboob Ki Mehandi” (1971) is a movie starring Rajesh Khanna and Leena Chandawarkar. This Muslim social movie had some wonderful songs in it, which remain popular to this day.
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In Hindi movies, we have several songs that allude to Lord Krishna and his baansuri (flute). I wonder why I did not have a category for such songs. Indeed there are so many songs of this category that I should have thought of it. Now I have finally opened a “Baansuri” category and hopefully this will cover most songs of this genre.
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