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Apni to har aah ek toofaan hai
Posted on: January 25, 2009
S D Burman is renowned for composing some fantastic boat songs. But I have noted that S D Burman, as well as his son R D were the leading exponents, when it came to creating memorable train songs as well.
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Madan Mohan not only got the best out of Lata, he did that with other singers as well. In fact, he had the knack of getting the best out of every singer he worked with, because he had the ability to guage the range of the singer’s voice and he would tailor his music accordingly. Thus we have singers as varied as Lata, Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh,Talat Mahmood, Asha Bhonsle, Bhupinder etc singing some of their most memorable songs under Madan Mohan.
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Mera sundar sapna beet gaya
Posted on: January 24, 2009
It is a very old song from a movie called “Do bhai” (1947) and this song was sung by Geeta Roy ( later Geeta Dutt). This song made her an overnight sensation.
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Tujhe sooraj kahoon ya chandaa
Posted on: January 24, 2009
Most Bollywood movies have make believe story lines that have little resemblence with real life. But then, there come some movies which are so life like that one is bound to fall in love with these movies. One feels happy when the protagonists are happy and one is sad when tragedy strikes them.
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Ankhiyon ke jharokhon se
Posted on: January 23, 2009
This was a movie that I watched in matinee show by bunking my afternoon classes in the college. But then the songs of this movie were blaring all over the place and I could not help but get attacted towards the movie hall.
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“Guide” is a movie whose music was voted as containing the best music among all Bollywood movies, when an Indian magazine polled the industry insiders ( viz singers, lyricists and music directors). Coming from those who themselves create music for Bollywood movies, this was high praise indeed.
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Kuchh to log kahenge
Posted on: January 20, 2009
Kishore Kumar, regarded as a singer of happy songs, has sung some fantastic sad/ serious songs in his career too. “Amar Prem” in fact had not one, but quite a few serious songs. Anand Bakshi was the lyricist and R D Burman was the music director of this movie.
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Mera dil ab tera O sajna
Posted on: January 20, 2009
In Bollywood movies, leading ladies are required to sing and dance. Some leading ladies have been trained dancers,and they have given us some memorable dances in these movies.
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“Bahu Begum” was one of the last movies in which Roshan gave music. And Roshan was at the peak of his prowess at that time.
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“Chetna” was one of those offbeat movies which were far too ahead of its time to appeal to the audiences who were still unwilling to patronise such movies. As a result, these movies fell flat at the box office. Other movies of the same genre were “Dastak” and “Do Raaha”.
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