Archive for the ‘Feelings of heart’ Category
There are a few songs which become popular right from the time they are released and go on to become timeless classics. But most songs remain popular only for some time and after that they are forgotten, perhaps for all time to come.
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I have talked about my resolution to try and post all Sajjad Hussain songs that are available. I have come to realise by now that Sajjad Hussain composed songs in 17 movies (and not 14, as popularly believed).
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Dol rahi hai naiyya
Posted on: October 7, 2010
S D Burman made his debut as a music director in Hindi movies in 1946. That year, two of his movies were released. They were “Aath Din” and “Shikari”.
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Pahle na samjhaa pyaar thaa
Posted on: October 7, 2010
In this blog, I post songs mainly from the golden era of Hindi movie music spanning across three decades from 1950s to 1970s. The decades just prior to 1950s, viz 1940s and 1930s were where the decks were cleared for the golden era to commence Listening to songs from these two pioneering decades is an enriching experience as it helps us go down memory lane by more than six to seven decades back to an era when I was not born and even my parents were small kids at that time.
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Ham tumhen chaahte hain aise
Posted on: October 6, 2010
During 1970s, Amitabh Bachchan had taken over the crown of the number one male actor of the decade. The one actor, who looked like a challenger was Vinod Khanna, but Vinod Khanna’s mind was not into his career. He became a devotee of Achaarya Rajneesh (that is how he was then known, before he began to call himself “Osho”). As a result, he ended up nowhere. He neither got the spiritual nirvaana from his spiritual guru nor could he devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career. If he could only devote himself whole heartedly to his movie career, he could have been number one, at least briefly, and who knows, may be for even longer durations.
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Ye chaar din bahaar ke
Posted on: October 6, 2010
Few people have heard of this movie called “Rukhsaanaa” (1955). It is interesting to note that this movie had actors like Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari, Shammi Kapoor and Kumkum in it.
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I have posted as many as seven songs from “Kashmir Ki Kali” (1964) and one may be excused for assuming that there may not be any more songs left to be posted from this movie. But then one would underestimate the calibre of music directors of those era, if one made such an assumption.
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Jo tum todo piyaa
Posted on: October 5, 2010
In case of most Hindi songs, lyrics of the song are written by the lyricist hired for this specific purpose. But there are occasions when the lyrics are already available and they are written by persons who lived much before Hindi movies came into existence.
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Kisi ne apna banaa ke mujhko
Posted on: October 5, 2010
Though I have discussed over three thousands songs in this blog already, there are still a large number of great songs that are yet to be discussed. The long list of readers’ farmaish gives us a good indication of just how many great songs are yet to be covered. There are so many great songs still to be discussed, but there is only so much time in a day, that one can devote to their discussion.
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