Archive for the ‘Deewaali song’ Category
“Khazaanchi” (1958) is an “All India Pictures” production. It was produced and directed by Premnarayan Arora. The cast of the movie included names viz. Rajendra Kumar, Shyama, Chitra,Balraj Sahni, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen, Manorama,Keshto Mukherjee, Shammi, S.N.Bannerjee, Rajan Haksar, Amar, Anwar, Parashuram etc.
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“Paisa” (1957), by now an obscure movie was a Prithvi theatre production. It was directed by Prithviraj Kapoor. This movie had Prithviraj Kapoor, Kuldip Kaur, Zohra Sehgal,Urza Mumtaz, Ravindra Kapoor, Vishwa Mehra, Ermeline, Sudesh Kumar, Pushpa,Sunder, Shree Ram etc in it.
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Aayi deewaali aayi deewaali
Posted on: October 26, 2011
This deewaali (26th october 2011) is the fourth deewaali for this blog. Yes, it is unbelievable, but true to realise that this blog is celebrating its fourth deewaali today.
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Deep deewaali ke jhhoothhe
Posted on: November 5, 2010
Though I have seen the movie “Jugnu” (1973), I do not much remember the songs of this movie. While looking for deewali songs, I found that this movie indeed has a deewali song, and that too a happy deewali song. I wonder how I do not remember this song despite watching this movie.
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I regard Ravi as the creator of iconic songs. Whatever the occasion, one can have a few iconic songs from Ravi for the occasion. Ravi indeed has a few iconic Deewali songs under his belt, as can be expected.
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“Deepawali” also called “Deewaali” means festival of lights in Hindi. There is another similar sounding unrelated word in Hindi called “deewaala” which means bankruptcy, which is nearly an antonym of deewaali. This word play of deewaali and deewaala is often used in common conversation by people.
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Most “deepawali” festival songs are sad/ cynical songs, but there are happy “deepawali” songs as well. Here is one such song.
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Though Deewali is one of the most important festivals in India, Hindi movies do not have adequate number of Deewali songs in them. This is in sharp contrast to the songs for another major Indian festival, viz Holi. There are many more “Holi” songs than we have “Deewali” songs.
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Aayi abke saal deewaali
Posted on: June 23, 2009
“Haqeeqat” (1964) was a movie full of wonderful songs. The movie itself was depressing for the Indian audience, considering the storyline of the movie.
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Laakhon taaren aasmaan mein
Posted on: January 12, 2009
I have listened to this song many a times. This song is regarded as an evergreen Mukesh-Lata duet. This song is from “Hariyali aur raasta”. I have already posted two songs (which are equally evergreen) from this movie in this blog.
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