Archive for the ‘Feelings of heart’ Category
Kisi ke dil mein rahna thha
Posted on: March 24, 2009
Here is a lovely song from “Baabul” (1950). It is sung by Shamshad Begum and Lata. The song was written by Shakeel Badayuni and Naushad was the music director.
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Madan Mohan had the misfortune of composing songs for movies that often failed at the box office.
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“Chaandni” was like a welcome musical oasis among the desert of plagiarised disco music in 1980s. And the fact that the music directors of this movie, shiv Hari had worked with legendary music directors of the golden era of Bollywood music certainly helped.
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Main ban ki chidiya
Posted on: March 21, 2009
Even those who do not think much of old songs may have heard of this song or at least this movie. This movie called “Achhut Kanya” (untouchable girl) produced in 1936 was obviously made on a topic that was too far ahead of its time and the makers of this movie did a great social service by making a movie on this topic. It was the first out of only two movie that Mahatma Gandhi is reported to have seen, the other movie being “Ram Rajya”.
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Do lafzon ki hai dil ki kahaani
Posted on: March 20, 2009
“The Great Gambler” was an Amitabh Bachchan movie that was pronounced a damp squib when it was released in 1979. That came as a surprise to me because I found it a more watchable movie than many of the supposedly successful Amitabh Bachchan movies like “Muqaddar Ka Sikandar”, “Suhaag” etc.
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Jaaneman tum kamaal karti ho
Posted on: March 19, 2009
In Bollywood movies, hero and heroines would traditionally meet in gardens and would be going round the trees, much like gorillas or chimps going through their mating rituals. Being more evolved than the apes, they would sing a duet while running around trees.
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Mohabbat hi na jo samjhe
Posted on: March 19, 2009
C Ramchandra had created some very fine songs in “Parchhain” (1952) and quite a few of these songs went on to become all time classics. I have posted one such Lata classic already (“katte hai dukh me ye din”). Here is a Talat Mahmood classic from this movie this time.
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“Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster that contained one amazing song after another. Most of these songs were sung by Yesudas and this movie to my mind constituted the finest hour that Yesudas enjoyed in his singing career in Bollywood. The music director was Rajkamal whereas different songs were written by different and mostly little known lyricists.
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Sach huye sapne tere
Posted on: March 16, 2009
“Kaala Bazaar” (1960) was a movie featuring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rahman. This movie had some nice songs.
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Chaand jaise mukhde pe
Posted on: March 15, 2009
The movie “Saawan Ko Aane Do” was a musical blockbuster, and its songs became very popular among its target audience, viz audience who watched non mainstream ( read Amitabh Bachchan kind of action movies) movies which were made on shoestring budget with unknown faces.
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