Archive for the ‘expression of love’ Category
This is one song about which I had no idea. And like me, most people are ignorant about the existence of this song from an obscure movie called “Do Boond Paani” (1971).
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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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Naachoon re gaaun re
Posted on: January 8, 2010
I have posted as many as five songs from “Aab e Hayaat” (1955). Here is another song from this movie.
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Kabootar aajaa aajaa re
Posted on: December 8, 2009
“Manglaa” (1950) was the second Hindi movie made by Gemini pictures, who till then were mainly producers of South Indian language movies. Like in their earlier effort, this movie too was made in Tamil and then dubbed into Hindi. The songs however were re recorded using singers and lyricists of Hindi movies.
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Sajjad Hussain was a music director who was not very diplomatic when it came to dealing with people. And he was very demanding of his singers too. He would create songs that would require his singers to give their best, and even then he would not be fully satisfied.
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Nain mile nain huye baawre
Posted on: November 27, 2009
“Taraanaa” (1951) was released nearly six decades ago, but there are people who regard this movie as a timeless classic and one of the most memorable movies from Bollywood.
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Ho gayi re teri ho gayi
Posted on: November 26, 2009
“Sazaa”(1951) has a few very nice songs that I was aware of and whicch I have already posted. I stumbled upon another song from this movie about which I was just not aware. The song as well as the picturisation just bowled me over as soon as I got an opportunity to watch this song.
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Chanda jaa Chandaa jaa re jaa
Posted on: November 23, 2009
There are songs with similar opening lines in “Ziddi” (1948) and well as in “Private Secretary” (1962). Both these songs are sung by Lata and both are superb songs.
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O nirdayi preetam
Posted on: November 23, 2009
It is often said that one needs to use heavy duty Urdu words to come up with romantic ( as well as other kinds of) songs, and people agree. But the facts are, most of the lyricists in the formative years of Bollywood movie songs were more familiar with Urdu and they created such songs using words they were more comfortable with. Listeners who were not familiar with Urdu were often clueless about many words in these songs. Many listeners, such as yours truly, did not know what words like “ulfat”, fitrat” etc meant. People would guess about the meanings of these words in the context of the topic. Sometimes their guess would turn out to be correct, and sometimes not.
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