Archive for the ‘Geeta Dutt songs’ Category
Dil se dil takraaye
Posted on: August 27, 2010
When you are young, you only like to listen to “modern” songs and hate listening to old songs calling them boring. Here is a song that was old even by my standards of 1970s when I was growing up. But show me a song that could be more modern than this by now 51 year old song.
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Baanki adaayen dekhnaa ji dekhnaa
Posted on: August 22, 2010
I know of at least two movies called “Amaanat”. The earlier one was released in 1955 and it had Bharat Bhushan and Chand Usmani in lead roles. The later one was released sometime in 1970s and this movie had Manoj Kumar and Sadhana in lead roles.
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Sakhi ri chitchor nahin aaye
Posted on: August 22, 2010
I have posted one immortal bhajan from “Jogan” (Ghoonghat ke pat khol re )in this blog in the past. That song was a Meera Bhajan sung by Geeta Dutt (then Geeta Roy). This movie in fact has several fantastic songs sung by Geeta Dutt.
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Dil ham to haare tum kaho pyaare
Posted on: August 16, 2010
While looking for songs, recently I stumbled upon this song from “Ardhaangini” (1959). And as often happens with me, I sat up and took notice. How come this song is not better known. This is a gem of a song really.
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Jahaan jahaan khayaal jaataa hai
Posted on: August 16, 2010
Here is a party song from a movie called “Bade Sarkaar” (1957). This movie, from its cast does not appear an A grade movie, seeing that Agha and Sajjan are the lead actors in this movie.
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Kaisaa jaadoo balam toone daaraa
Posted on: August 14, 2010
If one just goes through the lyrics of the song, this song may not appear to be much of a song. But just listen to this song. This song is sung so nicely that the song grows up on the listener and remains with him /her for several hours. That is what Lalitha felt about this song and mentioned while giving farmaish for this song. And when I listened to this song, I realised this fact myself.
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Aay haay dilrubaa
Posted on: July 31, 2010
I have a catgory of songs in this blog called “dance competition” songs. In this category, typically two dancers compete against each other. This has led to some superb dance competitions between dancers of formidable reputations.
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Here is a superb sentimental song from “Do Bhai” (1947). This is one of the earliest songs sung by Geeta Dutt that went on to become her calling card (the other such song being Mera sundar sapna beet gaya from the same movie).
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I have posted a few songs from “Detective” (1958) in this blog. This is not a movie I know too much about, but I am discovering that this movie was full of memorable songs.
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“Khidki”(1948) is a movie starring Rehana and Jawahar Kaul. The songs of this movie are of great historical importance because all the singers who would soon become all time legends sang in this movie.
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