Archive for the ‘Feelings of heart’ Category
When I was a kid, then my musical likings were very clear. I only liked new movie songs, preferably sung by Kishore Kumar. I disliked old songs, and I also disliked songs based on folk music, which I regarded as rustic music not worthy of a city slicker like me. 😉
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Unse pyaar ho gaya
Posted on: April 22, 2009
Long long ago, many later year villains were regarded as Hero stuff and they were acting as heroes in Bollywood movies. Ajit was one such actor and Premnath was another.
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Saanwle salone aaye din bahaar ke
Posted on: April 21, 2009
“Ek Hi Raasta” (1956) was a heart warming movie, going by the songs of this movie. Meena Kumari, who later became known for playing tragedy roles, played a happy character in this movie. Sunil Dutt played her husband and Daisy Irani played their kid. I had earlier posted a nice song from this movie viz “chali gori pi ke milan ko chali”.
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Ik tera sundar mukhda
Posted on: April 20, 2009
I was aware of a movie called “Bhai bhai” released in 1940s, but I never knew that a movie of the same name was made in 1970 too. This 1970 movie must have done really poorly at the box office to be so unknown.
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Do ghadi wo jo paas aa baithe
Posted on: April 19, 2009
In 1950s, there used to be movies named after important landmarks viz “Laal Quila’,”Chandni Chowk”etc. In this series, there was one movie called “Gateway of India” (1957).
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“Dulhan wahi jo piya man bhaaye” was not a mainstream movie. It was a movie made by Rajshree productions and as was their wont, there were no big names in this movie.
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Paas nahin aana bhool nahin jaana
Posted on: April 18, 2009
It is generally belived that commercial (mainstream) bollywood movies were make belive ones whereas “art” movies depicted reality. Not always.
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“Aao Pyaar Karen” (1994) was the debut movie of Aadesh Srivastava as a music director, and he certainly caught the attention of people with his music in this movie.
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Phoolon ke rang se
Posted on: April 16, 2009
One reason why many old songs ( 1970s and earlier) are popular is of course to do with nice music in these songs. Moreover, the music directors ( there were many outstanding music directors at that time) recognised the value of lyrics. And they would wait for lyricists to write their songs.
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Sajna hai mujhe sajna ke liye
Posted on: April 15, 2009
“Saudagar” (1973) was the debut movie for Ravindra Jain as a music director. He wrote the lyrics too. This was a Rajshree productions movie where they were known to sign up newcomers. And for this movie they had signed by Amitabh Bachchan ! It is strange to see Amitabh Bachchan playing a villager ( far cry from his action roles) wearing striped lungi throughout the movie.
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