Archive for the ‘Festival song’ Category
Dekho aayi Holi
Posted on: March 11, 2009
As mentioned earlier, I have been discovering that some of the best Holi songs were created after 1980, which comes as a pleasant surprise to me.
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Hori khele Raghuveera Awadh mein
Posted on: March 11, 2009
I am of the opinion that most great Bollywood songs on any topic were created before 1980. After 1980, there was a steady deterioration in the quality of such songs where lyrics took the back seat and plagiarised “disco” tunes replaced erstwhile tunes.
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I posted a few Holi songs yesterday which I thought were the best songs on this topic.
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I am surprised to see that as many as two memorable Holi songs are from 1980s. But when I look at the credentials of the lyricists and the music directors of these songs, I realise that they were very much throwbacks of the past, and so one should not necessarily be surprised that they came with such evergreen songs on the wrong side of the golden era of Bollywood music.
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Rang barse bheege chunar
Posted on: March 10, 2009
“Silsila” was based on the real life story of Amitabh Bachchan , Jaya Bhaduri and Rekha. To this day, wonder how all three of them agreed to wash their dirty linens in public in this movie.
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Holi ke din dil khil jaate hain
Posted on: March 10, 2009
If the iconic movie of 1957 (Mother India) had a memorable Holi song, then the same was the case with the iconic movie of 1975 (Sholay).
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Aali re aali re Holi
Posted on: March 10, 2009
The Holi songs of 1970s held their own as compared to the Holi songs of 1950s.
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Arre ja re hat natkhat
Posted on: March 10, 2009
As Holi songs go, this is the second oldest of all well known Bollywood Holi songs. This song from “Navrang” is exactly 50 years old by now.
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Holi aayi re Kanhaai Holi aayi re
Posted on: March 10, 2009
Bollywood movies have contributed some memorable Holi songs that have become must play songs during Holi years after years.
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This song is a festival song, a “holi” song to be precise. Everyone is seen with some gulaal applied on their faces, and Rajesh Khanna is seated with Asrani. Rekha, with gulaal applied on her cheeks as well, comes with a lota full of bhang and pours Asrani some of it. Rajesh Khanna also proffers his glass forward. Rekha, not interested in pouring him the intoxicant, thrusts the lota on Rajesh Khanna’s hands and departs on a huff, only to be stopped on her tracks when a song begins.
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