Archive for the ‘Ghazal’ Category
I have posted a couple of songs from “Kinaare Kinaare” (1963). The movie was a sad melancholic movie and its songs matched the mood of the movie.
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Do din ki muhabbat mein ham ne
Posted on: September 4, 2009
Many Madan Mohan movies are not even known, because these movies were box office disasters. These movies are very difficult to find. “Chhote Babu” (1957) is one such movie.
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“Tajmahal” (1963) was a musical blockbuster and its songs had swept classes and masses off their feet in 1963. This movie was the pinnacle of Roshan’s career. In fact, 1963 was a year in which Roshan was at the peak of his career. Several of his movies released this year were musical blockbusters.
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“Amar” (1954) was a movie starring Dilip Kumar, Nimmi and Madhubala. Few people today may have heard abut this movie. But as happened with many old movies of those days, this movie too has some very nice songs.
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Ye na thi hamaari qismat
Posted on: April 30, 2009
Mirza Ghalib was a legendary Urdu poet who was born in 1800s. Many of his poems have been sung by a host of singers.
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I have posted a Lata-Madan Mohan classic from “Adalat” already. While doing so I had mentioned that there were more such songs in the movie.
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Yoon hasraton ke daag
Posted on: January 30, 2009
This is one of the first Lata-Madan Mohan classic songs. This song is from “Adalat” which had other great Lata songs as well.This song is written by Rajinder Krishan.
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Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho
Posted on: November 5, 2008
Most of the ghazals we grew up listening to often had heavy duty high sounding words in them whose meanings few people understood. And people not understanding the words would not admit to it either, fearing that he would fall in the estimation of fellow ghazal lovers with such a confession.
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Jhuki jhuki si nazar
Posted on: October 30, 2008
“Arth” was an art movie or parallel movie as low budget movies were described as in those days. Apart from the realistic story line which were supposedly based on the life of Mahesh Bhatt, the movie had some nice ghazals. It was one movie that helped popularise ghazals which was a welcome development considering that the other option in Bollywood filmy music those days used to be “disco” songs.
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Atul’s Song A Day- A choice collection of Hindi Film & Non-Film Songs 
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