Archive for the ‘Inspirational song’ Category
Here is an obscure song from an obscure movie. This song is a movie opening song in the sense that this song plays in the background as the creditss roll on the screen. And the credits roll on the screen rather interestingly too.
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Jaago aur jagaao
Posted on: January 17, 2011
Qawwalis are normally the longest songs in Hindi movies. But sometimes stage songs also give qawwalis a run for their money as far as their duration is concerned.
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Nirbal se ladaayi balwaan ki
Posted on: December 3, 2010
The movie “Toofaan Aur Diyaa” (1956) opens with this song as the credits roll on the screen. This song, in addition to being the movie opening song and the theme song, has to be one of the most inspirational songs of all time.
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Ye maanaa dil jise dhoondhe
Posted on: November 24, 2010
I have been discussing songs from “Zimbo” (1958) these days. So far I have discussed a “running around the tree” song and a stage song.
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Hindi movie songs are reputed to be sung by the hero and heroine while running around trees. But what happens when the lady has injured herself and is unable to even walk, let alone run ? Does the hero abandon her and runs around trees with some other lady ? Not if the hero is Sunil Dutt. Sunil Dutt is one hero who would take care of his ladies in their moments of need.
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Muskuraao ke jee nahin lagtaa
Posted on: October 9, 2010
Nirupa Roy is known among movie watchers as the actress playing long suffering mother of Amitabh Bachchan in several movies of 1970s. But that is not how she began her career. She was a lead actress in hindi movies for much of 1950s and 1960s, before age caught up with her and she began playing those Maa roles.
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Nutan played a tragedy role in “Seema” (1955) and with that she stole a march over Meena Kumari in the race for becoming the first tragedy queen of Hindi movies.
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