Archive for the ‘Folk Dance’ Category
This song was almost edited out of the movie by its producer Vijay Bhatt who thought that this song, showing Hindu festival of Janmashtami had no place in this movie, but he was convinced by others that Akbar’s wife Jodhabai was a Hindu and so showing this song made sense.
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Dhoondho dhoondho re saajna
Posted on: April 22, 2009
This song “dhoondho dhoondho re saajna” was on my list of farmaishes for quite some time. I have no idea whether the hero actually searches for the “baala” that the heroine asks him to do in the song, but I was certainly searching for this “gaana”. And finally I managed to locate it yesterday.
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Dil leke bhaaga
Posted on: April 7, 2009
Bollywood movies have created a few myths which many armchair watchers now believe to be true, though that is hardly the case. The inspiration for two such myths have come from Hollywood movies.
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Kaanha bajaaye bansari
Posted on: March 22, 2009
“Nastik” (1954) is known for some very nice memorable songs. The well known song “dekh tere sansaar ki haalat kya ho gayi sansaar” is from this very movie, which I have posted in this blog.
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Morni baagaan maa
Posted on: March 20, 2009
Here is a song from a relatively newer movie by the standards of this blog. The movie is “Lamhe” (1991).
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The movie “Paaras” (1971) is by now a forgotten movie. But this movie was a nice threasure trove of some very nice songs.
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“Saraswati Chandra” is not a movie that too many people remember now. This lead actors in this movie were Nutan and Manish (who ?) and it was a Black and white movie in an era when colour movies had become the vogue.
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Baar baar tohe kyaa samjhaaye
Posted on: January 28, 2009
“Aarti” (1962) had some wonderful songs, and I am posting these songs now a days. This second song begins somewhat similarly to the other song. In the first song “Kahbhi to milegi”, Meena Kumari listens to a song on Radio, and then sings that song.
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Haule haule ghoonghat pat khole
Posted on: December 9, 2008
I have mentioned repeatedly that “Goonj Uthe Shehnaai” had an endless supply of nice songs. I have already posted quite a few ( I have lost count) and there are still songs from this movie that are yet to be posted.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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