Archive for the ‘Feelings of heart’ Category
“Raajhath” (1956) was a movie starring Pradeep Kumar and Mabhubala. This movie had some lovely songs in it. I have posted two songs from this movie already including the fabulous Ye waada karo chand ke saamne.
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In Hindi movies of yore, Hero is shown seated on the piano and singing a song. I for instance recall Dilip Kumar perpetually seated on a grand piano in the movie “Andaaz” (1949). 😀
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Kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa
Posted on: September 3, 2010
Reading the song “kaare badraa tu na jaa na jaa” may not ring a bell if one has not heard this song before. But once the song begins, one wonders how a song like this has managed to remain so well hidden from public ears.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
The summer of 1972 was my very first trip to Mumbai (then Bombay). It was summer vacation and my parents and all of us had gone to spend the vacation in Bombay.
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Kishore Kumar is today known as one of the legendary singers of Hindi movies. But that is not how he was known till late 1960s. Till then, he was a middling actor-singer in Hindi movies who would act in movies and sing for himself. In addition, he would sing songs mainly for Dev Anand, courtesy his mentor S D Burman.
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Taqdeer ka shiqwaa kaun kare
Posted on: September 2, 2010
I had never heard of this movie called “Poonam” (1952). Now I have found that it was a movie starring Ashok Kumar, Kamini Kausal, Asha Mathur etc.
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Tadap ye din raat ki
Posted on: September 1, 2010
This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor of posts to this blog
One of the things I set out to do a few years ago was to watch, once more, many of the movies that I had seen as a young boy.
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Ye dil hai muhabbat ka pyaasaa
Posted on: September 1, 2010
I have mentioned it in the past that I grew up in Ranchi, which was then a city in Bihar and it is now the capital city of the state of Jharkhand. Those were the days when one judged the size of a place by the number of movie halls in it. If the place had 100 plus movie halls then it was a metropolitan city. If the place had 30 plus movie halls then it was a A class city etc.
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Lata-Madan Mohan songs are always a delight to listen to.”Pooja Ke Phool” (1964) has several such songs in it. I have already posted one such song from this movie.
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