Archive for the ‘introspection’ Category
Kaisa hai mere dil tu khilaadi
Posted on: April 27, 2012
- In: Dev Anand songs | Dev Anand songs by Kishore Kumar | introspection | Kishore Kumar solo | Kishore Kumar songs | Lyrics by Peevesie's mom | Lyrics contributed by readers | Manic depression song | philosophical song | Songs of 1950s (1951 to 1960) | Songs of 1953 | Yearwise breakup of songs
- 2 Comments
From the details furnished by Mr Arunkumar Deshmukh, our inhouse walking encyclopaedia, it was seen that “Gambler” (1970) had five songs and as many as four songs from the movie had already been discussed.
Read more on this topic…
Most nation building songs in Hindi movies tend to be jingoistic songs. But there are songs which take a long hard hitting looks at the weaknesses of the nation.
Read more on this topic…
Thukra rahi hai duniyaa
Posted on: July 18, 2011
K L Saigal had less than thirty songs in the blog two months ago. Thanks to the conscious decision to discuss one K L Saigal song a day, we now have as many as 82 K L Saigal songs in this blog. And hopefully we will have a century of K L Saigal songs by the next month.
Read more on this topic…
Wo din kahaan gaye mere
Posted on: May 5, 2010
“Vachan” (1955) was the first movie of Ravi as an independent music director, and this movie saw Ravi’s career getting launched in a grand way. In this movie, Ravi composed an iconic song viz “Chandaa mama door ke”.
Read more on this topic…
If you are in an introspective mood, then there is nothing like a song sung by Pradeep. Pradeep, who wrote his songs with feeling, sung his songs with feeling too whenever he was called upon to sing songs. I have posted many immortal songs written and sung by Pradeep in this blog.
Read more on this topic…
Here is a much loved song from “Anaadi” which is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Raj Kumar. This song is a standard Raj Kapoor production, in the sense that this song is created by the standard Raj Kapoor team. The song is penned by Shailendra and the music is composed by Shankar Jaikishan.
Read more on this topic…
Wo shaam kuchh ajeeb thi
Posted on: December 20, 2008
I have mentioned earlier theat there are bollywood songs for different peiods of the day. I have mostly dwelt upon late night songs which I call “chaayaget” songs in honour of Vividh Bharati programme of that name. But what about evening songs ?
Read more on this topic…
- In: "Zindagi" song | expression of love | feel good song | Feelings of heart | introspection | Lata solo | Lata song | Love song | Missing the loved ones | needing each other | philosophical song | Poignant Song | Romantic song | Songs of 1970s (1971 to 1980) | Songs of 1975 | Yearwise breakup of songs
- 5 Comments
1970s saw the emergence of small budget family entertainers sans fights and violence. Amol Palekar and Vidhya Sinha were two of the leading “stars” of such movies. Two of their most memorable movies together were “Rajnigandha” and “Chhoti si baat”. These two movies can infact be treated as extensions of each other, that is how much these two movies had in common.
Read more on this topic…
It is one Bollywood movie that is inspired from a western movie and novel. But unlike most such inspired movies, this movie improves and enhances the original and comes up with a memorable tale that has the ability to move just about any person who has watched it.
Read more on this topic…
Hansne ki chaah ne kitna mujhe
Posted on: September 19, 2008
I grew in that era when masses would run away a mile from classical songs or classical dances. There were few takers for such kind of art.
Those days, some bollywood makers on a shoe string budget would make movies different from mainstream movies. Such movies earned rave reviews and critical praise, but these movies were rejected by masses. Film festivals were often the only place one could watch such movies.
Read more on this topic…
Recent comments