Archive for the ‘fun timepass song’ Category
I keep stumbling against unknown and unheard of gems almost every day. Look what I discovered just now !
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Hu tu tu tu tu
Posted on: February 4, 2011
This is a song that I had never heard before ! And this song is an unusual song in more ways than one.
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Ek chatur naar karkar singaar
Posted on: December 20, 2010
“Jhoola” (1941) is a Bombay Talkies movies which had Ashok Kumar and Leela Chitnis in lead roles. This movie has a few songs that are remembered to this day.
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“Daasi” (1944), which is a very old and forgotten movie had some superb songs in it. The songs of this movie deserve to be much better known among music lovers.
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Gentleman gentleman gentleman
Posted on: December 11, 2010
On the occasion of Dilip Kumar’s birthday (11th december), I am posting some songs picturised on Dilip Kumar. Here is an interesting fun song from “Gopi” (1970).
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Dhokhe mein na tum aanaa
Posted on: November 19, 2010
Here is a forgotten song from a forgotten movie composed by a forgotten music director and obscure lyricist, but what a delightful song it is !
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Though most Hindi movie songs draw their inspirations from indigenous sources (classical music, folk music etc) there are songs that are inspired from western music. In late 1950s, rock and roll music had caught up in Hindi movies in a big way and there were quite a few such songs in Hindi movies those days. Music directors like C Ramchandra and Vinod, to mention a few, were composing quite a few rock and roll kind of songs those days.
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When one looks at old movies (all over the world, not just India),one finds that the idea of political correctness was not known at that time. Moreover, many of the ideas depicted in old movies would be regarded as highly objectionable today though they were regarded as normal.
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Andher nagri chaupat raja
Posted on: November 10, 2010
Many of the songs discussed in this blog are well known songs. But in this blog, I also discuss songs that are rare and not known to many people. In fact, this blog may be one of the very few places on internet where such songs may find mention.
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Tujhe dil ki baat bataa doon
Posted on: October 7, 2010
“Picnic” was a very popular word in India in 1960s and 1970s. People, who could afford it used to go to some far off places during weekend or holidays to relax. They would play some games there, have their meals their and then they would come back. This in short was what was a picnic.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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