Archive for the ‘fun timepass song’ Category
This song from Namak Halaal is an awesome song. Just listening to this song cheers one up. Kishore Kumar has sung the song so well and with such enthusiasm that one can feel the enthusiasm every time one listens to this song.
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Mera naam hai chameli
Posted on: October 6, 2008
This song is a fun timepass song or tapori song, whichever classification suits you. The movie itself was a lighthearted movie. In this song, Sanjeev Kumar is kept in a prison and Kumkun launches a drive to free him. The drive consists of the tried and tested Bollywood formula viz singing a suductive song and the prison guards prove a pushover in the true Bollywood tradition. A song sung by Kumkum is all that it takes for the guards to lower their guards and Kumkum, with her associates manages to free Sanjeev Kumar.
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We tend to discuss great songs from the past and go overboard discussing about the great message, great quality of melody, music, lyrics, voice etc contained in the songs. Here is one such song which has absolutely no pretentions of any kind about being a great song. It is a totally timepass song. This song was supposed to be there just to raise a few laughs in the movie. It indeed does so, but it has managed much more than that.
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Gussa itna haseen hai to
Posted on: October 5, 2008
Rajesh Khanna, the superstar of late 1960s and early 1970s had fans swooning over his mannerisms. Whatever he touched turned to gold those days.
Maryada was a movie where he acted opposite the ageing heroine Mala Sinha. This movie, though largely forgotten now, had some awesome songs. One Mukesh song from this movie, viz “jubaan pe dard bhari daastaan chali aayi” has already appeared in this blog.
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Bade miyan deewaane aise na bano
Posted on: October 3, 2008
In case one wants to learn driving from a driving school, the trainer takes the beginner on the road and gives him hands on training.
In this case, I S Jauhar wants to learn the art of impressing the fair sex. His trainer, Joy Mukherjee, like a driving trainer, takes him on the road and gives him theoretical as well as practical training.
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Another rare gem. This song from Doosra Aadmi is sung by comedian Deven Verma on himself, and the female voice is Pamela Chopra’s who was the wife of Yash Chopra, the maker of this movie.
The lyrics has a word like Sanwariya mentioned prominently. And guess what, Ranbir Kapoor whose debut movie was called “Sanwariya” was not born then, but one can clearly see Ranbir Kapoor connection in this song. His mother and father play the married couple in this song, as they did in many movies together at that time.
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I have posted over a hundred songs of different natures in this blog so far. Songs of 1970s that I am posting were those that influenced me a lot, as I was in my formative years during those days. The influence of R D Burman as music director was something that needed to be experienced. Most of his songs just left people spell bound.
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Here is a song from 1973 that is funny as well as serious, both at the same time. It preaches us the value of being content with what we have rather than losing sleep over chasing mirages.
Rajinder Krishan, as usual came up with wonderful lyrics containing simple words with deep meaning. Laxmikant Pyarelal compose a nice song, sung well by Kishore and Lata. Overall, it may have been considered as a timepass song in the context of the movie, but I think the message of the song goes beyond the scope of the storyline of the by now forgotten movie.
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Sun sun kasam se
Posted on: September 17, 2008
This song is a great discovery, I must say. This song is filmed on Danny, then an esoteric looking item of curiosity for Bollywood movie watchers. He looked every bit a chinky that his Sikkimese origin warranted, and moreover, he had yet to become accepted as an actor for mainstream roles. With time, his looks became accepted as mainstream, and he in fact started playing roles like Thakur saab, Heroine’s baap etc.
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