Archive for the ‘fun timepass song’ Category
Dil meraa naache thunak thunak
Posted on: September 4, 2010
There are several Hindi movies with grand sounding titles, but here is a very homely kind of a title for a movie. It is called “Mera Ghar Mere Bachche” (1960), which means “My home and my kids”. How very plebian !
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I love you o madam
Posted on: August 29, 2010
I can watch songs of a movie any number of times. On the other hand, I find watching the same movie a waste of my time. Perhaps I have become “mature” with time. As a sign of this “maturity”,I would rather spend three hours trying to get the lyrics of a song right than watch the movie containing this song which may take less time.:D
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Aaye baithe khaaye piye khiske
Posted on: August 21, 2010
“Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimaan” (1969), which is not remembered much today is a tresure of fantastic songs. Surprisingly, I had not heard these songs when this movie and its songs were released in 1969.
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Johny Walker, who mostly played a comedian in Hindi movie had become so popular that he began to command one song per movie which was typically sung by Rafi. This song was often a major highlight of the movie.
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This post is written by Raja, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie songs and a regular visitor of this blog
Often the catchy songs that you sing in your childhood stay with you for the rest of your life.
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Ae baby ae ji idhar aao aa gayaa
Posted on: July 27, 2010
“Love in Shimla” (1960), which predates all other “Love in …” movies in Bollwood was the debut movie of Sadhana and Joy Mukherji. And what a superb launch vehicle the two of them had got ! I have not watched the movie, but I have heard and watched a few songs of this movie, and if the songs are any indication, this movie was a great fun movie.
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Bholi soorat dil ke khote
Posted on: July 12, 2010
It was in late 1940s and early 1950s that Indian movie music was discovering new sources of inspirations for its songs, apart from classical music. These new sources of inspiration being Indian folk music and western music.
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Main joru ka ghulaam banke rahoongaa
Posted on: July 5, 2010
I have posted a song from “Joru Ka Ghulaam” (1972) where Rajesh Khanna was the lead actor. Another movie of the same name was released in 2000, and guess who was the lead actor in this movie ? It was Twinkle Khanna, daughter of our beloved Kaka.
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I was on the lookout for this song for quite some time, ever since Raja gave me the farmaish of this song from “Shrimaanji”. In all this time, I managed to find (and post) several songs from “Shrimatiji”, but I drew a blank as far as locating songs of “Shrimaanji” was concerned.
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Halla gulla lailla halla gulla
Posted on: June 2, 2010
“Dholak” (1950) was a movie that is not remembered much, but I have discovered that this movie was one of the biggest musical blockbuster movies of all times.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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